{"id":37836,"date":"2025-12-17T22:38:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T16:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=37836"},"modified":"2025-12-17T22:38:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T16:53:11","slug":"tuskers-khagendra-prasad-and-rudrakali-flown-to-qatar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/tuskers-khagendra-prasad-and-rudrakali-flown-to-qatar\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuskers Khagendra Prasad and Rudrakali flown to Qatar"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Lumbini, Dec 17: Two tuskers which the Nepal government gifted to Qatar government were flown to Qatar today.<\/p>\n<p>The elephants namely Khagendra Prasad and Rudrakali were sent to Qatar via a cargo chartered flight of the Qatar Airways on Wednesday. The elephants were taken to Bhairahawa from Sauraha, Chitwan via road on Monday before the departure to Qatar.<br \/>\nThe gifted elephants were sent to Qatar from the Bhairahawa-based Gautam Buddha International Airport via Boeing 777 F Freighter Cargo aircraft under the Flight Number QR 8824 of the Qatar Airways at 5.00 pm this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, the Nepal government had decided to gift a couple of elephants to Qatar during the Nepal visit by Qatar&#8217;s King Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani on 23-24 April 2024.<br \/>\nRudrakali and Khagendra Prasad who were reared in the Sauraha-based Elephant Reproduction and Training Centre were chosen for gift to Qatar.<\/p>\n<p>Female Rudrakali is seven years old while the male Khagenra Prasad is of five years.<br \/>\nThe tuskers were handed to the Qatar government as the gift at Bhairahawa Airport.<br \/>\nSecretary at the Ministry of Forest, Rajendra Prasad Mishra handed over the elephants to the Deputy Chief of Mission at the Qatar Embassy, Khalifa Almari.<\/p>\n<p>On the occasion, Secretary Mishra expressed the confidence that the handover of elephants as gift would further deepen the Nepal-Qatar diplomatic relations.<br \/>\nDeputy Chief of Mission of the Embassy, Almari extended happiness and gratefulness to Nepal for the gift.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-37837\" src=\"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/ManojKshtri-Sainamaina-Rupandehi-AL5A9728-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-37838\" src=\"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/rudrakali-qatar-1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-37839\" src=\"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/rudrakali-qatar-2-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lumbini, Dec 17: Two tuskers which the Nepal government gifted to Qatar government were flown to Qatar today. The elephants namely Khagendra Prasad and Rudrakali were sent to Qatar via a cargo chartered flight of the Qatar Airways on Wednesday. The elephants were taken to Bhairahawa from Sauraha, Chitwan via road on Monday before the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37838,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main-news","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37836"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37836"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37841,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37836\/revisions\/37841"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}