December 31: The Gurung community is observing the Tamu Lhosar today (Sunday) by bidding farewell to the year gone by. In the Gurung language, ‘Lho’ means year or age and ‘Sar’ denotes change.    

Members of the Gurung community mark the festival by organising feasts and cultural programmes.

The festival is marked on the 15th day of the Nepali month of Poush with the first rays of the sunlight reaching the Gurung settlements in Lamjung, Gorkha, Tanahun, Syangja, Manang, Kaski and Parbat.    

The festival is marked by Tamang and Sherpa community later in the Nepali months of Magh and Falgun, respectively.    

The government has announced public holiday on the occasion of Tamu Lhosar today. Members of the Gurung community have been obeserving a special programme at Tundikhel, Kathmandu, on the occasion of Tamu Lhosar.  

Meanwhile, President Ram Chandra Paudel and Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal have wished for happiness, peace and good health of all Nepalis at home and abroad on the occasion of Tamu Lhosar festival. President Paudel has expressed the confidence that this festival would help further strengthen our national unity by promoting goodwill, tolerance and brotherhood among all Nepalis in our multiethnic, multilingual and multicultural diverse society.