Type | Daily newspaper |
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Format | Broadsheet |
Owner(s) | Gorkhapatra Sansthan, Government of Nepal |
Founder(s) | Dev Shumsher |
Publisher | Gorkhapatra Corporation |
Editor | Narad Gautam |
Founded | 6 May 1901 |
Language | Nepali |
Headquarters | Dharma Path, Kathmandu |
Country | Nepal |
Sister newspapers | The Rising Nepal |
Website | Gorkhapatra Online |
Gorkhapatra (Nepali: गोरखापत्र) is the oldest Nepali language state-owned national daily newspaper of Nepal.[1] It was started as a weekly newspaper in May 1901 and became a daily newspaper in 1961.[2] It is managed by the Gorkhapatra Sansthan.[3] The Rising Nepal is an English-language sister newspaper of Gorkhapatra.
It is the sixth oldest newspaper in continuous publication in South Asia and the oldest in Nepal.[4] Gorkha Bharat Jiban, edited by Motiram Bhatta was published in Varanasi in 1886, is considered the first Nepali language newsmagazine ever published. Gorkhapatra is the second Nepali-language newspaper to be published in Nepal, after Sudha Sagar.[5]