'THE MOTHERLAND' First daily English newspaper of Nepal to come out in morning

SOME POINTS ABOUT 'THE MOTHERLAND'

• Founded in January 1958

• Survived for as long as 15 years

• First daily newspaper in the kingdom to come out

in the morning

• Has teleprinter in it's office

• Receives news from AFP

• Publish about 1800 copies a day

• Four persons in the press

• Publishes weather report on the 1st page

• It's motto as being " FOR KING , COUNTRY, AND

PEOPLE"

• Editorial appears on 3rd page

"THE COMMONER'- First Daily English newspaper of Nepal

"THE COMMONER" is the first daily english newspaper of Nepal which was published in the editorship of Gopal Das shrestha.

SOME POINTS ABOUT THE COMMONER:

• First daily English newspaper of Nepal
• First published on the 15th july 1954
• Oldest of all the daily English newspaper
• Shri Gopal Das Shrestha was it's editor who was also a senior journalist of the country
• Smaller in size
• Smaller than Rising Nepal
• It has only four pages
• The first thing that it strikes a foreigner about it is it's
• unusual smallness and thinness for a
• daily newspaper.
• Once it enlarged it's size to normal daily paper but
• after a very spam of time it's size dwindled to it's
• original smallness.
• Major national and international news used to be
• published in first page.
• It used to print "THE PIONEER ENGLISH DAILY WITH THE
• LARGEST CIRCULATION IN THE KINGDOM OF NEPAL
• just below the mast head.