Stamps on Nepalese Newspapers 2016- Gorkhapatra Daily

Philately – Nepal issued a Commemorative stamp on a Nepalese Newspaper Gorkhapatra in 2016. the Stamp features the first page of Gorkhapatra Daily of 1901. Stamp features Nepali script. Stamp shows significance of Newspaper in Philately

History– Gorkhapatra was founded on 06 May 1901 by Dev Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana .It was initially aweekly Newspaper but became a daily in 1961.It is the oldest Nepali-language newspaper and the oldest continuously published newspaper in Nepal.