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Dy registrar nabbed for demanding 21L bribe

Edit The Times of India 14 Jul 2016
Sakkardara cops have registered an offence against Mahendra Magar, 44, in this connection ... The complainant had submitted these forms to Magar for further processing after filling all the required details. However, Magar claimed that the information furnished in the form had many loopholes. Later, Magar visited the complainant's institution, where he again pointed out many faults in official formalities....

Ball now in Speaker’s court

Edit The Himalayan 14 Jul 2016
Speaker Onsari Gharti Magar begins the Legislature Parliament meeting in Kathmandu on Thursday, February 11, 2016 ... While what happens next is the question lingering on everyone’s mind, all eyes are now cast on Speaker Onsari Gharti Magar, who has called the House session on Friday to chart a fresh plan of action ... Gharti Magar told journalists....

Rwanda: Local Athlete Muhitira Joins Italian Club Potenza Picena

Edit All Africa 14 Jul 2016
[New Times] Rwanda's long distance runner Felicien 'Magare' Muhitira is set to join Italian club Potenza Picena, which is based in the central city of Siena. He will fly to Italy on Saturday and is expected to sign an initial one-year contract ... ....

SA Games dominates PoY nominees list

Edit The Himalayan 14 Jul 2016
Footballers Nawayug Shrestha and Bikesh Kuthu, Bikash Thapa of weightlifting, wushu player Rajesh Chaudhary and taekwondo player Bir Bahadur Mahara were shortlisted in the Player of the Year (Male) category, while wushuka Nima Gharti Magar, swimmer Gaurika Singh, judoka Phupu Lhamu Khatri, triathlon athlete Roja KC and taekwondo player Rejina Karki made it to the Female section nomination....

No-trust motion tabled against Oli

Edit The Himalayan 14 Jul 2016
CPN-MC Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal filing a no-trust motion at the Parliament Secretariat on Wednesday, July 13, 2016. Kathmandu, July 13 ... The motion was tabled in accordance with Article 298 (13) of the constitution and Rule 160 of Legislature-Parliament Rules. The PM informed Speaker Onsari Gharti Magar through CPN-UML Chief Whip Bhanu Bhakta Dhakal that he would not tender his resignation but would face vote of no-confidence ... ....

Ancient Trails – Issue IV

Edit Darjeeling Times 13 Jul 2016
After the Anglo-Nepalese War of 1814-15, the British started to recruit Magars, and Gurungs, and later on Rais and Limbus to fuel the British consolidation in India and abroad (Caplan 1998) ... He also holds the view that Limbu (Tsong) and Magar villages were in existence in Sikkim during the 17th century ... that the Magars were indigenous to Sikkim....

Revisiting history

Edit Darjeeling Times 13 Jul 2016
But that left out the Limbus and the Magars. The Magars staunchly resisted Bhutia incursion and political domination, and they actually went to war against the new rulers. The fact that the Magars were pretty well organized can be assessed from the forts they built which the ruling community in Sikkim called them Magar-dzongs. Eventually, the Magars lost and a large part of them got pushed westwards....

Hill history !! an investigation

Edit Darjeeling Times 13 Jul 2016
Similarly, in the words of the British pioneer and a Botanist of high reputation, Joseph Dalton Hooker, “The Magars are aborigines of Sikkim, whence they were driven by the Lepchas westward into the country of the Limboos and then later further west” So much for Chakraborty’s comment “ To the timid peace loving Lepchas”....

The locus stands of Darjeeling District

Edit Darjeeling Times 13 Jul 2016
Sub. The locus stands of Darjeeling District vis a vis all aspects related to the ensuing Gorkhaland statehood demand.  ... Committee two facts ...   ... Dt ... Limbu and Tamang and others (designated All Tribes Census 1931) being the Rais, Gurungs Magar, Sunwar, Thami, Newar, Bhujel, that imposition of their community language and script if any, inclusion in the Census participation is critical to assert their inherent tribal status claim....

Voices from the Margin

Edit Darjeeling Times 13 Jul 2016
Had the descendants of the Gorkha (Limbu & Magar) chiefs who ruled over the western part of Sikkim (Darjeeling hills included) long before the Chhogyal dynasty emerged, been uprooted from the present Sikkim, would Gorkhas of Darjeeling hills remain safe? The Sikkimese Nepalis comprising 70% of the total population of the then Sikkim were ......

Man held for swindling foreign job aspirants

Edit The Himalayan 12 Jul 2016
Chhantyal had allegedly collected up to Rs 650,000 each from Jayashwor Ghimire, Ashok Burja of Nawalparasi, Sudip Nepali, Rabin Pariyar, Keshav Pariyar, Dambar Bahadur Budhathoki of Dang, Kharka Bir Gharti of Salyan, Tikaram Gharti Magar of Shantinagar, ......

Right Honourables

Edit The Himalayan 11 Jul 2016
(From left) Chief Justice Sushila Karki, Vice-President Nanda Bahadur Pun, President Bidya Devi Bhandari, Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli and Speaker Onsari Gharti Magar attend a special programme at the President’s Office, Sheetal Niwas, on Monday, July 11, 2016....

MoYS awards youths, organisations

Edit The Himalayan 11 Jul 2016
Other awardees included Tara Bahadur Syangtaan, Shristi KC, Kiran Adhikari, Angdaba Sherpa, Rupan Magar, Khadga Magar, Hiralal BK, Ganesh Bikram Singh Ale, Yagya Prasad Devkota, Netra Shah, Nirmala Subedi, Shreeram Pandit, Baisa Bahadur Tamang, Neelam Dhungana, Padam GC and Gyan Bahadur GC-Pyuthan....
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