51 Notable alumni of
Tribhuvan University
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Tribhuvan University is 1560th in the world, 347th in Asia, and 1st in Nepal by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 51 notable alumni from Tribhuvan University sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Gyanendra of Nepal
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- regentpolitician
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Gyanendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev was the last king of Nepal. He reigned from 1950 to 1951 and again from 2001 to 2008, when the Kingdom of Nepal was abolished and a republic declared.
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Bidya Devi Bhandari
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- politician
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Bidya Devi Bhandari is a Nepali former politician who served as the second president of Nepal from 2015 to 2023. She formerly served as the minister of defence and minister of environment and population.
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Suman Pokhrel
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- songwriterliterary criticliterary scholarlinguistresearcher
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Suman Pokhrel is a Nepali poet, lyricist, playwright, translator and artist. Universities in Nepal and India have included his poetry in their syllabi.
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Madhav Kumar Nepal
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- politician
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Madhav Kumar Nepal, is a Nepalese politician and former Prime Minister of Nepal. He served as prime minister from 25 May 2009 to 6 February 2011.
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Gagan Kumar Thapa
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- businesspersonpolitician
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Gagan Kumar Thapa is a Nepali politician serving as the president of the Nepali Congress since 2026. He is the prime ministerial candidate for the Nepali Congress in the 2026 general election.
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Malvika Subba
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- modelpresenterbeauty pageant contestantbusinesspersonactor
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Malvika Wanem subba is a Nepalese television personality, entrepreneur, model, social activist and beauty pageant title holder who was crowned Miss Nepal 2002. She graduated from Pokhara University with Masters in Mass Communication and Journalism.
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Khil Raj Regmi
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- politicianjudge
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Khil Raj Regmi was the acting Prime Minister of Nepal from 2013 to 2014. Regmi has served as Chief Justice of Nepal since May 2011, having been appointed by President Ram Baran Yadav after the expiry of the term of his predecessor, Chief Justice Ram Prasad Shrestha. In early 2013, the main political parties agreed to install Regmi as chairman of cabinet on a short-term basis, to oversee elections. He was sworn in on 14 March 2013 by President Yadav.
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Purna Chandra Thapa
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General Purna Chandra Thapa was the Chief of Army Staff in the Nepalese Army until 2021. He served as the head of mission and force commander of the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force from 19 January 2015 until 7 February 2016.
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Rabindra Prasad Adhikari
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- politician
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Rabindra Prasad Adhikari was a Nepali politician and three-time parliamentarian, belonging to the Nepal Communist Party (NCP). He was Minister of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation from 16 March 2018 until his death in a helicopter crash in February 2019. He was the Kaski District secretary of the party. In the 2008 Constituent Assembly election, Adhikari was elected from the Kaski-3 constituency, with 13,386 votes. In the 2013 Constituent Assembly election, he was re-elected from the Kaski-3 constituency, with 15,456 votes. In 2017, CPN-UML candidate Rabindra Adhikari won parliamentary elections from Kaski Constituency No. 2. Representing the left alliance, Adhikari secured 27,207 votes to defeat Nepali Congress candidate Dev Raj Chalise, who got 18,661 votes. After his demise, his wife Bidya Bhattarai won Kaski Constituency-2 with a wide margin of 8,403 votes in the by-election. Bhattarai secured 24,394 votes, while her nearest contender Khem Raj Poudel from the main opposition Nepali Congress got 15,991. Socialist Party's Dharma Raj Gurung got 1,922 votes. He authored the books Constituent Assembly, Democracy and Re-structuring.
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Krishna Bahadur Mahara
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- politician
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Krishna Bahadur Mahara is a Nepalese politician, belonging to the Nepal Communist Party. He was a prominent Maoist leader during the civil war. After the Maoists entered the peace process, he was elected to parliament/constituent-assembly multiple times, and also became cabinet minister. Following his election to the house of representatives in the 2017 legislative election, he was elected House Speaker but resigned in October 2019 after allegations of attempted rape were made by a parliamentary staffer. He was acquitted in February 2020.
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Yuba Raj Khatiwada
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- bankereconomistpolitician
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Yuba Raj Khatiwada is a former Nepali politician and economist who has served as the Ambassador of Nepal to the United States since 17 February 2021. As the residential ambassador of Nepal to the US, he was also the non-residential ambassador to Panama, Costa Rica, Mexico, El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala and was entitled to look after the affairs related to the World Bank, IMF, and the World Bank Group (IBRD, IDA, IFC, MIGA and ICSID). He was a member of the National Assembly from 2018 to 2020 and was a minister in the cabinet of KP Sharma Oli from February 2018 to September 2020. He previously served as the governor of the Nepal Rastra Bank, as well as the vice-chair of the National Planning Commission.
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Bimalendra Nidhi
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- politician
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Bimalendra Nidhi is a Nepali politician who previously served as a Deputy Prime Minister and Home Minister of Nepal. Also a former Minister of Physical Infrastructure and Transport, Nidhi has won from Dhanusha 3 as MP of House of Representatives and Constituent Assembly. Nidhi has also served as the Vice-president and General secretary of Nepali Congress.
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Khagendra Lamichhane
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Nepal - Occupations
- actorscreenwriter
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Khagendra Lamichhane is a Nepalese theater actor, writer, and director. He is best known for his work in movies such as Talakjung vs Tulke and Pashupati Prasad. He entered the acting field in 1999. He has directed five plays, mostly staged at national and international theatre festivals. As a writer, he has published three books.
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Ek Nath Dhakal
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- 1974-.. (age 52)
- Occupations
- peace activistpolitician
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Ek Nath Dhakal is a Nepalese politician from Nepal Family Party (Nepal Pariwar Dal) and elected parliament member from Gorkha District of Nepal, and founder of the Nepal Pariwar Dal, and served as Minister for the Ministry of Peace and Reconstruction of the Government of Nepal. Dhakal's candidacy was supported by CPN - UML. He serves as the Asia Pacific Regional Chair of the "International Association of Parliamentarians for Peace (IAPP). Dhakal serves at the Nepal-US Parliamentary Friendship Group. In April 2025, Dhakal was named as the Inaugural Secretary General of the Inter-Parliamentary Speakers’ Conference (ISC), an inter-parliamentary, intergovernmental, multilateral organization that promotes parliamentary diplomacy. In June 2025, Dhakal met Pope Leo XIV during IPU’s Parliamentary Conference on Interfaith Dialogue in Italy.
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Subin Bhattarai
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- writer
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Subin Bhattarai is a Nepalese writer and columnist, known for his novels such as Summer Love and Saaya.
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Sobita Gautam
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- lawyerjournalistyouth activistpolitician
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Sobita Gautam is a Nepalese politician and member of Rastriya Swatantra Party. She was elected to the House of Representatives in 2022 from Kathmandu 2. At 27, she is the youngest directly-elected member in the House of Representatives.
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Gopal Gurung
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- journalistpolitician
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Gopal Gurung was a politician, author, journalist, teacher and vocal advocate of the human rights for the indigenous people of Nepal. Gurung was the editor-in-chief of New Light and Thunderbolt weekly newspapers for many years. He was a former member of the Central Committee of the Nepal Journalists Association, former secretary general of the World Nepalese Association and Chairman of the All India Press Council for Nepal, as well as a consultant and coordinator for the Press Foundation of Asia (PFA), Manila, Philippines.
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Abhi Subedi
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- playwrightliterary criticlinguisttranslatorliterary scholar
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Abhi Subedi is a Nepali poet, playwright, columnist, translator and critic, who writes in Nepali and English.
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Gokarna Bista
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- 1965-.. (age 61)
- Occupations
- politician
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Gokarna Bista is a Nepalese politician and former secretary of Communist Party of Nepal (UML). He served as Minister of Energy under prime minister Jhala Nath Khanal and as Minister of Labour, Employment and Social Security in the KP Oli-led cabinet. He was elected in the 2013 Nepalese Constituent Assembly election from Gulmi district constituency number 3. In April 2011, during his tenure as the minister of energy, he was stabbed by two motorcyclists outside his house. He became popular for revolutionary changes in the power sector of Nepal.
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Sunil Pokharel
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- artistfilm director
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Sunil Pokharel is a Nepalese theatre artist and director. He is considered one of the pioneers of modern Nepali theatre. He is a graduate of National School of Drama, India (1987). He has directed more than four dozens of varied Nepali, Indian and European plays.
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Shankar Pokhrel
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- politician
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Shankar Pokhrel is the former Chief Minister of Lumbini Province. He was elected as the central secretary of Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist–Leninist) from 1998 to 2008.
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Arjun Karki
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- diplomatactor
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Arjun Kumar Karki is a Nepali development practitioner who served as the Ambassador of Nepal to the United States from 2015 to 2021. As the residential ambassador of Nepal to the US, he also served as the non-residential ambassador to Panama, Costa Rica, Mexico, El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala
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Agni Sapkota
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- politician
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Agni Prasad Sapkota is a Nepalese politician and former speaker of the House of Representatives. He was elected speaker unopposed on 26 January 2020, after the previous speaker, Krishna Bahadur Mahara, resigned over allegations of attempted sexual assault.
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Banira Giri
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- poetwriter
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Banira Giri was a Nepalese poet and novelist, best known for her novels such as Karagar, Nirbandha and her poetry collections such as Jiwan: Thayamaru and Euta Jiundo Jung Bahadur. In 1999, she received the Sajha Puraskar for her novel, Shabdatit Shantanu, becoming the first woman to win the prize.
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Mohna Ansari
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- Nepal
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- human rights defender
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Mohna Ansari is a member of National Human Rights Commission of Nepal. She was appointed to this position in October 2014. She is a well-known rights activist, and Nepal's only female attorney from the Muslim community. She worked as a commissioner at the National Women Commission (NWC) of Nepal between 2010 and 2014. She then worked as the Senior Advisor of IDEA International.
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Govinda Raj Joshi
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- 1949-.. (age 77)
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- politician
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Govinda Raj Joshi is a Nepalese politician. Govinda Raj Joshi was born in 1949 at Khalte village in Rupakot Village Development Committee of Tanahun district, Nepal, He stepped into the field of politics in 1964 when he had just begun his student life. Joshi who regards late BP Koirala as his ideal was the president of the free student union and Gandaki Student Council in 1967. Joshi was a member of Tarun Dal, the youth wing of the Nepali Congress Party, in the year 1969 in Tanahun district, He formed the Nepali Congress Tanahun district committee and was the secretary of Nepali Congress, Tanahun, in 1976, He was the secretary of the multiparty campaign committee of Nepali Congress Party in 1979, He was the vice- president of Nepali Congress Party, Tanahun district and eventually made it to the central committee member of the party in the year 1997. Likewise, Mr. Joshi was elected as a central committee member of the party in the year 2000. Twice a central committee member; Mr. Joshi has already held the post of a joint general secretary of the party. He actively worked as a coordinator while the construction of the Nepali Congress Party Building was underway at Sanepa, Lalitpur. Joshi who started his career as a teacher was also the founder of Tribhuwan High School, Tanahu district. He was the founding headmaster of the school and taught at the very school for six years as a volunteer and spent his personal money to establish a high school in his own village. Later on, he was the headmaster of Shiva Secondary School Rising and also the founder of Adikabi Bhanubhakta Multiple College, Tanahun. He taught at the very college for two years as a volunteer.
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Gyan Chandra Acharya
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- diplomatpolitician
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Gyan Chandra Acharya is the Nepali ambassador to the United Kingdom since January 2021, and the former United Nations Under-Secretary-General and High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States. He was appointed to this position by the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on 14 August 2012.
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Sarita Lamichhane
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- actor
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Sarita Lamichhane is a Nepalese actress who is known for her work in television series Mukti.
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Radha Paudel
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- writer
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Radha Paudel is a Nepalese nurse, activist and writer. She won the Madan Puraskar for her memoir Khalangama Hamala. She has actively worked for raising awareness related to various women-related issues.
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Ram Saran Mahat
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- 1951-.. (age 75)
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- politician
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Ram Sharan Mahat was the Finance Minister of Nepal under the government led by Sushil Koirala.
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Dharmapaal Barsingh Thapa
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- 1939-2024 (aged 85)
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Dharmapal Barsingh Thapa was a Nepali military officer who was the Chief of Army Staff (1995–1999) and Director of Avant venture.
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Bharat Jangam
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- journalistpoet
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Bharat Jangam, also known as Bharat Mani Jangam is a novelist and freelance journalist from Nepal. He wrote the book Kalo Surya (Nepali: कालो सूर्य). He lives in Kathmandu, Nepal.
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Sunil Kumar Yadav
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- 1981-.. (age 45)
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- politician
- Biography
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Sunil Kumar Yadav is a Nepali politician and current Minister of Finance for Madhesh Province. He's also serving as member of Madhesh Provincial Assembly having been elected from Rautahat 3(B).
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Nayan Raj Pandey
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- novelistscreenwriterwriter
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Nayan Raj Pandey is a Nepali writer and screenwriter. He writes stories and novels, as well as screenplays for Nepali cinema. He is known for his representation of contemporary Nepalese society in his novels, presented in a figurative style. He received the Padmashree Sahitya Puraskar for his autobiographical book Yaar in 2017. Ulaar, Loo, Ghamkiri, and Sallipir are Pandey’s popular novels.
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Durga Prasad Bhattarai
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- diplomat
- Biography
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Durga Prasad Bhattarai is a Nepali career diplomat who is currently the Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Nepal to the United Nations in New York City. He serves concurrently as the Ambassador of Nepal to Bolivia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela.
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Nisha Rawal
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- taekwondo athlete
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Nisha Rawal is a Nepalese taekwondo practitioner who has qualified to compete at the 2016 Summer Olympics being held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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Jeevan Ram Shrestha
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- 1965-.. (age 61)
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- politician
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Jeevan Ram Shrestha ( born 1965 December 30 ) is a Nepali politician, who served as the Minister of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation in the ruling coalition government led by Prime Minister and Nepali Congress President Sher Bahadur Deuba.
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Geeta Tripathee
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- poetwriteruniversity teacherlyricistshort story writer
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Geeta Tripathee is a Nepali poet, lyricist, essayist, literary critic and scholar. An eminent writer in Nepali, Geeta Tripathee has two volumes of poetry collection, one of lyrical poems and seven books in other literary genre to her credit. She also writes for newspapers on issues concerning women, environment and societal injustice.
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Narayan Rayamajhi
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- singerwritercomposerlyricistmusic director
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Narayan Rayamajhi is a Nepali composer, lyricist, feature-film script writer, film director, and producer. He has steadily excelled as a singer and he has made a significant contribution to promote Nepali music industry. He has written more than fourteen dozen folk songs, more than six dozen modern songs, two dozens soap-opera songs, three musical plays, two documentaries and has he directed three movies Gorkha Paltan, Pardeshi and Pardeshi 2.
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Sharada Sharma
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- writerpoetessayistcritic
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Sharada Sharma is a Nepali writer and poet. Her debut novel, Taap, won the 2012 Padmashree Sahitya Samman award.
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Ram Pratap Thapa
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- Diploma of Business Administration
- Biography
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Ram Pratap Thapa OGDB is an Honorary Consul General to Germany at Cologne and chairman of German-Nepalese society. He is also the founding member of Non Resident Nepali Association (NRNA) serving Nepalese Diaspora.
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Mahendra Bahadur Pandey
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- 1948-.. (age 78)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Mahendra Bahadur Pandey is a Nepalese politician and diplomat. A politburo member of the Communist Party of Nepal, on 25 February 2014 he assumed the post of the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Nepal under Sushil Koirala-led government. Since April 2020, he is the Ambassador of Nepal to China. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, he assumed his post from Kathmandu until September 2020.
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Ram Prasad Khanal
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- writer
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Ram Prasad Khanal is a Nepalese musician, distinguished class singer, and folk-music activist. He has worked for the growth and development of Nepali folk music for decades. He is an author, journalist, artist, actor, composer, and radio and TV program producer, director and presenter. He serves as President of the International Artists Forum. He has mainly been known for his Nepali folk and duet songs and his activism in the field of folk music.
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Ramesh Kshitij
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- lyricistpoetsongwriter
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Ramesh Kshitij; Salyan, Western Nepal) is a versatile poet, lyricist and a writer. He is best known for the poetry, he has also written stories and songs.
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Niranjan Parajuli
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- university teacherchemist
- Biography
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Niranjan Parajuli is a Nepali chemist, biochemist, and biotechnologist. He served as President of the Nepal Chemical Society from 2019 to 2021, and was a Professor of Chemistry at Tribhuvan University. His research focuses on microbial biotechnology, natural products, protein engineering and computational chemistry.
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Tulasi Diwasa
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- writer
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Tulsi Prasad Joshi is a Nepalese literary figure and folklore expert. He is a prominent name in modern Nepali poetry. He was honoured with the title Bisista Sahitya Siromani at the International Poetry Festival in India in April 2013.
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Sonika Manandhar
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- programmerenvironmentalist
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Sonika Manandhar is a Nepali computer engineer and a social entrepreneur. She co-founded a fintech company named Aeloi Technologies, an organization that helps fund women micro-entrepreneurs using digital tokens. She received the award "Young Champions of the Earth" from the United Nations Environment Programme's in 2019 and the National Geographic Society 2020 Emerging Explorer.
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Keshab Prasad Badal
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- 1948-.. (age 78)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Keshav Prasad Badal is a Nepalese politician.
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Sarbottam Dangol
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- politician
- Biography
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Sarbottam Dangol, politically known as 'Kailash' (Nepali: कैलाश), is a retired politician, former central committee member of Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist-Centre), and former prominent leader of United People's Front of Nepal (Samyukta Jan Morcha). He stood as a candidate for the mayor post of Kathmandu Metropolitan City in May 2017. He also stood for the election in 2008 Nepalese constituent Assembly from Kathmandu area no. 8.
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Bal Gopal Shrestha
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- anthropologist
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Bal Gopal Shrestha is a cultural anthropologist based in the Netherlands. He was born in Sankhu, a small town near Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal, and finished his MA from Tribhuvan University. Later Shrestha completed a PhD in cultural anthropology at Leiden University in 2002.
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Sulochana
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- activistpoetwriter
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Sulochana Manandhar Dhital, professionally known as Sulochana, is a Nepali poet, writer, columnist and political activist. She writes poems in Nepali, Nepalbhasa and Chinese. She served as the Founding Chairman of the Mother Tongue Literature Department of Nepal Academy. Her works has been translated into multiple languages. Raat, Jhyalkhana are some of her popular works.
