Kathmandu: With Nepal formulating hundreds of laws in line with the new constitution it adopted in 2015, there are growing national and international concerns over the curtailing of press freedom. Accusations...
HIMALAYAN NEWS SERVICE Kathmandu, May 16 Federation of Nepali Journalists that has been protesting against the Media Council Bill, is staging a sit-in protest in front of the Federal Parliament...
The National Human Rights Commission has taken serious exception to an amendment Bill to revise the Press Council Act, saying the proposed law is against democratic norms and the freedom...
The KP Sharma Oli-led government which has drawn flak from civil society members and opposition parties over its restrictive provisions against the press in some recent bills appears to be...
KATHMANDU, May 14: The speaker of the House of Representatives and the chairperson of the National Assembly (NA) have assured a delegation from the Federation of Nepali Journalists (FNJ) of their...
The Federation of Nepali Journalists has said its struggle against the government’s plan to control the media has started and that it will continue its fight until the Media Council...
KATHMANDU, May 13: As the government drafts bills, one after another, curtailing press freedom, experts have advised the media watchdog organizations to challenge the bills in court. Arguing that media...
KATHMANDU, May 12: As part of its ongoing five-day agitation, Federation of Nepali Journalists (FNJ), the umbrella organization of the journalists, is holding interaction with legal experts, editors, media experts...
KATHMANDU, May 12: Nepali Congress has said that the proposed media law is ‘coup’ against press freedom. Organizing a press meet on Sunday, party president Sher Bahadur Deuba said that...
KATHMANDU, May 10: The government has pushed new legislation with harsher provisions to further tighten control on media, including a provision of up to Rs 1 million penalty for publishing content...
The government has registered a bill in the parliament that proposes a fine of up to Rs 1 million on journalists violating the code of conduct. The bill that will...
The government, on Wednesday, presented the Media Council bill to Parliament, bypassing a critical consultation phase with stakeholders and the public. The consultation phase, in practice for a long time...
inister of Communications and Information Technology Gokul Prasad Baskota said the new media law would regulate undisclosed and non-transparent investment in the media sector. “In a democracy, not only the...
May 4, 2019- New laws and policies that have been specifically designed to curtail freedom of expression in the country, along with the government’s repeated attempts to tarnish the image...
KATHMANDU, May 3: The World Press Freedom Day has been celebrated across the globe on May 3 since 1993. Member nations of the United Nations have started marking the day...
KATHMANDU, April 24: The media fraternity in the country has grown wary of repeated 'obstructions' against the private sector press covering public events involving President Bidya Devi Bhandari. In a continuation...
Information and communication sector in Nepal is growing as an industry with about 1000 newspapers and magazines in regular publication, and about 800 FM radios, 100 TV channels and above...
Nepal Media Society, an umbrella body of publishers and broadcasters, has taken serious exception to KP Sharma Oli government’s series of actions that are aimed at squeezing the media. Issuing...
Amid a series of moves at controlling news publishers and limiting access to information, the government now has moved a step further which, stakeholders say, is in violation of the...
