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2011 Nepal census classifies the Rai people within the broader social group of Mountain/Hill Janajati. [16] At the time of the Nepal census of 2011, 620,004 people (2.3% of the population of Nepal) were Rai. The frequency of Rai people by province was as follows: Koshi Province (11.3%) Bagmati Province (1.5%) Gandaki Province (0.3%) Madhesh ...
Preeti Kulung Rai (Nepali: प्रीति राई; born 21 November 2004) is a Nepalese footballer who plays as a midfielder for KickStart FC and Nepal national women's team. Rai made a remarkable debut for Nepal's national women's football team in a FIFA Friendly match against Bangladesh at Dasharath Stadium on 9 September 2021. At just ...
The status of women in Nepal has varied throughout history. In the early 1990s, ... international award-winning athletes Mira Rai, Phupu Lhamu Khatri, ...
Pramila Rai (प्रमिला राई, born 12 May 1963 [2]) is a Nepali politician and an incumbent member of the House of Representatives of the federal parliament of Nepal. [3] [4] She was also elected to the first constituent assembly in 2008. Daughter of prominent Nepali Congress leader Bal Bahadur Rai, she joined politics as a ...
Rai Community of Sikkim representing Tableau of Sakewa Sili on 63rd Indian Republic Day 2012 Rajpath New Delhi. Sakela (also Sakewa or Sakenwa) (Nepali: साकेला) is one of the main festival of Khambu (Rai people), an ethnic group indigenous to Eastern Nepal and Sikkim, Kalimpong, and Darjeeling regions of India.
Kirat Mundhum, (Nepali: किरात मुन्धुम) also known as Kiratism, or Kirati Mundhum, is a traditional belief of the Kirati ethnic groups of Nepal, Darjeeling and Sikkim, majorly practiced by Yakkha, Limbu, Sunuwar, Rai, and Hayu peoples in the north-eastern Indian subcontinent. [2]
Women in cultural costume at Ubhauli Kirati festival 2017 at Gough Whitlam Park, Sydney, Australia Ubhauli (Nepali: उभौली, lit. 'going up') is festival of the Kirat communities of Sunuwar, Rai, Limbu and Yakkha of Nepal, India and around the world by Kirati people celebrated every year marking the migration phase upwards towards the hilly regions when the summer season arrives. [1]
On 21 November, 19-year-old Rai from the eastern Bhojpur district was returning to Nepal on a fake passport – under the name Bimala KC – after having worked as a domestic maid in Saudi Arabia for four years. Nepali law does not allow women under the age of 30 to travel alone to work as migrant labour.