Crackdown on illegal foreign channels starts october

kathmandu , The Ministry of Information and Communications (MoIC) has directed all 75 districts administration offices to take foreign channels who haven’t received its downlink permission off air। Such a move follows widespread complaints that some foreign channels are broadcasting indecent and anti-social contents। MoIC a few days ago had formed a committee to oversee the content of foreign channels before giving downlink permission। According to cable television entrepreneurs more than 125 foreign channels are available across the nation and only 95 channels have submitted applications seeking downlink permission till now। The National Broadcasting Act 1991 makes licence compulsory for foreign channels willing to broadcast in Nepal।

लुक्लाको लागि उडेको सीता एयरको डोनियर विमान मंगलबार लुक्ला विमानस्थलमा दुर्गघटनाग्रस्त

अशोज २६ , काठमाडौंबाट लुक्लाको लागि उडेको सीता एयरको डोनियर विमान मंगलबार लुक्ला विमानस्थलमा दुर्गघटनाग्रस्त भएको छ । विमानमा सवार चालक दलका सदस्य सहित ११ जना यात्रु सशकुल रहेका छन् । विमान अवतरण गर्दा दुर्घटना भएको जनाइएको छ । दुर्घटनाबाट विमानको अग्रभाग क्षतिग्रस्त भएको छ । बिमंको ब्रेक फेल भएर दुर्घटना भएको कुरा थाहा भएको छ ।

Special Committee Members meting of the today

KATHMANDU, OCT 09 - Members of the Special Committee on integration and rehabilitation on Saturday accused the Maoists of holding the Special Committee Secretariat (SCS) to “ransom” by their deliberate absence from the mechanism.

The Maoists are adamant that Nanda Kishore Pun, Chief of the People’s Liberation Army, be named coordinator of the 12-member body. The six-party Special Committee, responsible for supervision, integration and rehabilitation of the Maoist combatants, had expected SCS to become operational Sunday. Deepak Prasad Bhatta, SCS member of the CPN-UML, said, “Nothing has moved as the Maoists are yet to participate,” he added.

Maoist representative Chandra Prakash Khanal said the SCS was “defunct” as the Special Committee is yet to appoint a coordinator. The Nepali Congress and CPN-UML are insisting retired Nepal Army General Balananda Sharma should head the mechanism. Khanal, however, said the issue was non-negotiable.

After the Special Committee decided to activate the SCS on Oct. 2, the SCS office was set up within the Ministry of Peace and Reconstruction. Since then, Maoist members Khanal and Kul Prasad KC have visited only once. The absence of the Maoists has hit the recruitment of personnel to be deployed by the government in 28 Maoist cantonments and a 24-hour operation centre proposed to monitor the cantonments, said a non-Maoist member.