August 16, 2000

KATHMANDU:  Purunder Ghimire, a senior media hand has been appointed Chairman of the Gorkhapatra Corporation, the publisher of the oldest Nepali and English dailies in the country. Ghimire, was appointed to the important post by a cabinet decision on Monday.

A Masters degree holder in Mass Communications from the Maryland University in the USA, Ghimire was previously the Chairman and General Manager of the Rastriya Samachar Samiti, RSS, the only news agency in the country. He is also among the first batch of journalism graduates from the Tribhuvan University.

Meanwhile, according to sources, Ganesh Ballav has been appointed as Executive Chairman of RSS. Earlier he was just the Chairman of the Board. Similarly, Durganath Sharma has been appointed as the General manager of the Nepal Television. He was the acting General Manager till now.