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unusual facts about Gorkha



Bharatpur, Nepal

Narayangarh is the main shopping area of Bharatpur city, ward no.1,2,3,4 areas.IT is the main transit point for all the vehicles traveling via east-west East-West Highway and also for the people traveling from Kathmandu, Gorkha, and Pokhara through Mugling road.

Bhattarai

Although now the Bhattarai polulation is widely distribited across Nepal as well as in neighboring India, they have their origin in the Gandaki basin of central-hilly region of Nepal, that include districts like Gorkha are Syangja.

Darjeeling district

Most of Darjeeling formed a part of dominions of the Chogyal of Sikkim, who had been engaged in an unsuccessful warfare against the Gorkhas of Nepal.

Dhital

DHITAL's origin most likely is from Jumla, a far northwestern district of Nepal, but they are now scattered all over the country, including in Lamjung, Gorkha, Dang, Kathmandu, Nuwakot, Kavrepalanchok, Sindhupalchowk and Rupandehi.

Harish Kapadia

His son Lt. Nawang Kapadia, who was commissioned on September 2, 2000 in the Fourth Battalion the Third Gorkha Rifles, died while fighting Pakistan based terrorists in the jungles of Rajwar in Kupwara district of Srinagar on 11 November 2000.

Ilam District

The treaty between the other Limbuwan states and the King of Gorkha (Gorkha-Limbuwan Treaty of 1774 AD) and the conflict of Gorkha and Sikkim led to the unification of Ilam with Gorkha.

Jan Salter

In 1997 Salter was decorated with the "Gorkha Dakshin Bahu" award by the then Nepali king, Birendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev.

Kukri

On September 2, 2010, Bishnu Shrestha, a retired Indian Army Gorkha soldier, alone and armed only with a kukri, defeated 40 bandits who attacked a passenger train he was on in India.

Manakamana Cable Car

Opened on November 24, 1998, the Manakamana Cable Car runs between Cheres, Chitwan and Manakamana, Gorkha.

Prashant Tamang

People from Darjeeling district, Sikkim, and Gorkha population living all around the world voted overwhelmingly for Prashant in the contest.

Sambhav Nepal Foundation

SNF currently sponsors 12 brilliant children coming from back warded families of villages like Aarupokhari, Manbu of Gorkha.


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