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  Gurung - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Gurung is an ethnic group from the Central region of Nepal.
Some gurungs called themselves Kubla lama gurung that means their anchester row from khublai kaan (kublai khan).
Gurungs trace their descent patrilineally, organized into two groups, or moieties of patrilineal clans.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gurung   (454 words)

  
 03-9574 -- Gurung v. Ashcroft -- 06/03/2004
Gurung, represented by counsel, primarily argued that proof of mailing was insufficient because the certificate of service was name-stamped, not hand-signed.
Gurung notice in a form and manner that complied with the immigration statutes and the Constitution.
Gurung did receive a subsequent notice mailed to the same address, and that his motion was apparently mailed from that address.
www.kscourts.org /ca10/cases/2004/06/03-9574.htm   (1974 words)

  
 MALAYSIA: Jail and Cane for Legal Nepali Worker Raises Serious Questions
Gurung was arrested along with dozens of other foreign workers in Subang Jaya and carted away, packed tight in lorries to a detention center where all his protestations that he had a valid work permit and a passport fell on deaf ears.
Gurung spent 18 days in the detention camp, forgotten and lumped together with some over 9,000 other undocumented workers who were awaiting ”processing”, conveyor-belt style, by the immigration department officials before they were brought before the Magistrates Court for sentencing.
Gurung served 51 days of his sentence before he was released last week after a friend intervened and Tenaganita, a human rights group, actively took up his case.
www.ipsnews.net /africa/interna.asp?idnews=28713   (1093 words)

  
 nbc4i.com - Local News - FBI: O'Hare Suspect No Terrorist   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Gurung was stopped before he could board his United Airlines flight when airline employees at the gate made a random check of his carry-on bag.
Gurung was charged earlier with unlawful use of a weapon and attempting to board an aircraft with weapons, both misdemeanor charges.
Gurung, questioned by police and the FBI, was released from custody early Sunday morning and told to return for a court date on Dec. 19.
www.nbc4i.com /news/1041313/detail.html   (611 words)

  
 CNN.com - No terrorism suspected in O'Hare weapons arrest - November 6, 2001
Gurung appeared in court Monday on a federal charge of attempting to carry a weapon on an aircraft.
Gurung was re-arrested by the FBI Sunday night after being released earlier by local authorities.
Gurung first was arrested by Chicago authorities Saturday night and charged with unlawful possession of a weapon and attempting to board an aircraft with a weapon, both misdemeanor charges.
archives.cnn.com /2001/US/11/05/inv.ohare.security.breach   (1199 words)

  
 Destination Pokhara   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Gurungs are hard working mongolian hill people inhabiting southern part of Annapurna region in between 5,000 to 7,000 feet.
The Gurungs live in small round, oval or rectangular houses which are clustered to form a single village.
Gurungs are broadly classified into two groups, viz.
www.pokharacity.com /pokhara/People.htm   (1161 words)

  
 Why is Gopal Gurung not as innocent as the Sons of God ?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Gopal Gurung, leader of the Nepal based Mongol National Organization while commenting on the resent memorandum submitted by the State wing of the Youth Congress to the Governor Chaudhary Randhir Singh, demanding a restriction on his movement in Sikkim.
Gurung stated that he had to face similar misconceptions in his native Nepal, to where his efforts at providing the Nepalese with Mongol origin an identity are misconstrued as being a communal gimmick.
Gurung was not born a Brahmin, otherwise he would still be enjoying the fruits of good life, with Mongoloid and Sudroid women at his beck and call, being wined by Big Brahmins of the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty and dined by Pandits of the Sangh Parivar instead of being convicted of `communalism' and sent to prison.
www.dalitstan.org /journal/buddhism/bud000/gg_innct.html   (1041 words)

  
 Green Focus | Nepal: On A Green Path to Democracy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Gurung, on his own accord, went to the Nepal countryside attempting a peacemaking dialogue between the insurgents and government military forces.
Gurung, who has visited the New Zealand to study and understand the key values of the Green Party, point's out the growing pains of GNP: "We are still in our infancy.
Gurung comments, "We depend on and import fossil fuels" and only 10% of the population is connected to electricity.
www.greens.org /cal/greenfocus/04W_NepaleseGreenLeader.html   (1099 words)

  
 CNN.com - Man arrested with knives, stun gun at O'Hare - November 5, 2001
Police arrested Subash Gurung, 27, who said he was from Nepal, and charged him with unlawful possession of a weapon and attempting to board an aircraft with a weapon, both misdemeanor charges.
Gurung said he was unemployed, but then told the reporter he worked in a warehouse.
Police and FBI agents questioned Gurung, who was taken to a holding facility in suburban Chicago, fingerprinted and processed, then released on bond, Donegan said.
www.cnn.com /2001/US/11/04/inv.ohare.arrest/index.html   (658 words)

  
 Thaman Gurung - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Thaman Gurung (October 2, 1924-November 10, 1944) was a Nepalese recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
On 10 November 1944 at Monte San Bartolo, Italy, Rifleman Thaman Gurung was acting as a scout to a fighting patrol.
It was undoubtedly due to his superb gallantry that his platoon was able to withdraw from an extremely difficult position without many more casualties than were in fact incurred and that some very valuable information was obtained which resulted in the capture of the feature three days later.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Thaman_Gurung   (208 words)

  
 COURT TV ONLINE - TOP NEWS
On Saturday, Subash Gurung, a 27-year-old unemployed Nepalese national in the country on an expired student visa, told Argenbright employees at the United Airlines checkpoint that he was carrying two knives.
But Gurung was allowed to continue to the gate area with a plastic bag containing seven more knives, a stun gun and a container marked "tear gas-pepper gas." Those items were discovered by United workers who searched his luggage at the gate.
Gurung was arrested by Chicago police on two misdemeanor charges and released on bond.
www.courttv.com /assault_on_america/1107_ohare_ap.html   (599 words)

  
 Gurung Publications
Gurung, R. R., Dunkel-Schetter, C., Collins, N., Rini, C., and Hobel.
Gurung, R. Taylor, S. E., Kemeny, M., and Myers, H. HIV is not my biggest Problem: Chronic burden, depression and ethnicity in Women at Risk for HIV.
Gurung, R. Sarason, B. and Sarason, I. Predicting relationship quality and emotional reactions to stress from Significant-Other-Concept Clarity.
www.uwgb.edu /gurungr/SC2.html   (2946 words)

  
 Headline News The Kathmandu Post (Nepal)
Gurung, an unemployed former warehouse worker, already had been charged in Illinois state court with misdemeanour counts of unlawful use of a weapon, attempting to board an aircraft with dangerous weapons and carrying dangerous weapons after he was arrested just prior to boarding a United Airlines flight to Omaha, Nebraska, on Saturday night.
If convicted, Gurung faces up to 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine, the FBI said in a statement released on Monday.
The paper also reported that Assistant US Attorney Edward Kohler said in court that Gurung was in the country illegally, his student visa having expired, and that he was a danger to the community and a risk to flee.
www.nepalnews.com.np /contents/englishdaily/ktmpost/2001/nov/nov07   (4700 words)

  
 Pokhara mourns Harka Gurung   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Gurung had worked under a tree when the ANNFSU had locked out the offices of the Pokhara muncipality's mayor and deputy, right after the resignation of Surya Bahadur Thapa.
Born in Aththar Dandakharka VDC-6 of Parvat district, Gurung was staying here for the past 25 years, a relative, Prem Bahadur Gurung, said, adding relatives had asked him to resign from the post, but he was hesitant, as the RPP had asked him not to quit.
"Gurung had never hinted he was considering leaving office," KC claimed, adding there was no truth in reports of his possible resignation.
www.thehimalayantimes.com /PrintStory.asp?filepath=aATaoanlaNaeaw2a/a2Ta0qa/Va7a/ywgaNaaCaiWanXala/aNaaatydkqa0wa9wa1Ua1cKamX&dtSiteDate=20040703   (260 words)

  
 Green Focus | Nepal: On A Green Path to Democracy
Gurung describes his country as "being in a state of civil war" and fears "that large-scale violence in the countryside is about to erupt, killing more innocent people".
Gurung does not agree with the violent methods of the insurgents, but agrees with their platform.
Gurung continues his stay in the U.S. to observe how Greens, such as San Francisco's Terry Baum, conduct their political campaigns.
www.cagreens.org /greenfocus/04W_NepaleseGreenLeader.html   (1099 words)

  
 GunWeek.com
Gurung was charged with three misdemeanor counts of unlawful use of a weapon, attempting to board an aircraft with dangerous weapons and carrying dangerous weapons.
Gurung was released early on Nov. 4 on $1,000 bail and is scheduled to appear in court Dec. 19.
Gurung recently moved back to Chicago with his brother, Sushil, from Minnesota, said Adam Colfax, superintendent for the Chicago apartment building where the Gurung brothers lived until a year ago.
www.gunweek.com /2001/hs112001.html   (1184 words)

  
 Nepalese dolls, Nepalese doll, Nepalese culture, Nepali dolls, souvenir item, himalayan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The male Gurung are popular in the field of army throughout the world, while female Gurung take cares of her children, cattle, does the house work and also works in the field.
These dolls show male Gurung is standing in his costume with a “Dhaka Topi” (cap) and carrying a “Madal” a popular musical instrument of Nepal which is used in most of the occasions or celebration in Nepal, while the female Gurung is standing in her costume and jewelries.
Gurung are rich in their culture and fond of singing and dancing.
www.himalayanmart.com /nepalesedolls/nepalesedolls.php   (1264 words)

  
 Colorado Daily News
Gurung served as president of the Cosmopolitan Club, and as an international student community leader in Boulder.
Gurung grew up in Nepal and Singapore and moved to the United States to study at Texas State University, where he graduated Magna Cum Laude.
Biss Gurung is survived by his parents Chandra Bahadur and Dhurpati Gurung, an elder sister Tara Devi Gurung, younger brother Heupati Gurung and younger sister Purna K Gurung.
coloradodaily.com /articles/2005/09/18/news/c_u_and_boulder/news4.txt   (416 words)

  
 The Unreached Peoples Prayer Profiles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The more than 116,000 Western Gurung are primarily located in the Kaski and Syangja districts, a central strip of mountainous country in the Western Gurung region of Nepal.
Traditionally, Gurung society is organized into two major class groups: the "four castes" and the "sixteen castes." Lately, differences between these groups have decreased.
the Eastern Gurung of Nepal, the Galle Gurung of Nepal, and the Gurung of Bhutan.
www.ksafe.com /profiles/p_code2/307.html   (802 words)

  
 Rise of the Mongol Buddhist Resistance   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Gopal Gurung, President of Mongol National Organization, is not only a frequent visitor to Sikkim and Darjeeling but says that his party, which contested the last parliamentary polls in Nepal, is gaining ground in eastern Nepal.
Gurung pointed out that his party had control over at least eight districts mostly in the eastern region.
Gurung’s controversial book, "Hidden Facts in Nepalese Politics"(originally in Nepali, now translated into English) is widely circulated in Sikkim and Darjeeling.
www.dalitstan.org /journal/politics/buddhist/rise_mr.html   (435 words)

  
 Airport Workers Canned After Security Breach   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Gurung appeared before U.S. Magistrate Morton Denlow, who on Monday ordered Gurung held without bond because he could be a flight risk.
Prosecutors noted that Gurung's student visa expired in 1999 and that he was carrying a falsified Immigration and Naturalization Service employment authorization card at the time of his arrest.
Screeners confiscated two knives Gurung had in his pocket as he passed through metal detectors but apparently missed the seven knives, stun gun and Mace that were in his carry-on bag.
www.newsmax.com /archives/articles/2001/11/5/163430.shtml   (725 words)

  
 The Nyeshangte
They have Gurung surnames and state that they are Gurung, yet the Gurung further down the valley do not accept the Nyeshangte as such.
The Gurung were pastoralists, herding yaks and goats.
Indeed, the Gurung have been adjusting their oral history to show that their ancestors came from the south and were Hindu.
www.cia.com.au /ianj/the_nyeshagbhot.htm   (1091 words)

  
 THE KATHMANDU POST - HEADLINES
Both Manange and Gurung are multi-millionaires, with lavish lifestyles and expensive habits.
If a civilian did gather the courage, the dons went underground till the case was closed or used their connections to tilt decisions in their favour.
Gurung is recovering at Teaching Hospital and will soon be fit to deal his blow.
www.nepalnews.com.np /contents/englishdaily/ktmpost/2003/dec/dec28/index1.htm   (637 words)

  
 Amber Gurung   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Amber Gurung is a veteran musician of modern Nepali songs.
Though Gurung is originally from Gorkha, he spent most of his childhood in Darjeeling, India and later moved to Kathmandu in 1969.
Gurung is well known for his song "Nau Lakh Tara".
www.info-nepal.com /profiles/musicians/ambergurung.html   (57 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - O'Hare security workers suspended   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
City officials said the workers, including one supervisor, failed to detain the Subash Gurung, 27, of Chicago, after two folding knives were discovered in his pocket when he passed through a metal detector.
Gurung, who told authorities he was unemployed, was arrested trying to board a United flight to Omaha, Neb., on Saturday night, Donegan said.
After being released on bail on those charges early Sunday, Gurung was rearrested by FBI agents when he returned to O'Hare to retrieve his checked-in luggage.
www.usatoday.com /news/nation/2001/11/05/chicago.htm   (642 words)

  
 Ashoka Fellow Profile - Surya Gurung   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Surya Kiran Gurung and Yubarajraj Sangroula, two Nepalese lawyers who have been friends and collaborators for years, plan to propose reforms in Nepal's legal codes to better protect the interests of the country's suddenly growing number of older people.
Because of the last decade's great improvements in public health care, more and more countries in Asia, Nepal included, are suddenly facing an unprecedented growth in the number and proportion of older people in the population.
Gurung, who is from a military family, was born in Hong Kong and spent a number of childhood years in Dehra Dun (north India).
www.ashoka.org /fellows/viewprofile3.cfm?reid=144432   (1088 words)

  
 rediff.com US edition: FBI arrests Nepalese for carrying weapons at O'Hare
A Nepalese national, Subhash Gurung, 27, was arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation on Monday for attempting to take a stun gun and knives aboard a plane at O'Hare airport.
Gurung passed a security point with the weapons, but airline employees discovered them during a final bag check at the gate.
According to Donegan, Gurung has been charged with three misdemeanour counts of unlawful use of a weapon, attempting to board an aircraft with dangerous weapons and carrying dangerous weapons.
www.rediff.com /us/2001/nov/05ny10.htm   (334 words)

  
 NEPAL: 14-year-old Dalit girl and her mother sentenced 20 years of imprisonment for a murder they did not commit
The grandmother was not at home but Deepa's relative Sunita Gurung called the two girls upstairs and said that an astrologist had told her that all the people in the village were cursed and would die.
The Gurung caste is very strong in the area and whenever something happens to a Gurung all the others will come to support them.
In particular, while the case was ongoing in court, the Gurung villagers including Deepa's father Gum Prasad Gurung and her uncle Dhruba Gurung had tampered with school certificates and tried to prove that Saraswati was 17, despite her birth certificate and a medical examination showing that she was under 16 years.
www.ahrchk.net /ua/mainfile.php/2004/798   (2172 words)

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