(CEHURDES/IFEX) – “Kantipur” columnist Krishna Jwala Devkota has been receiving threatening phone calls and e-mails from persons claiming to be “government security forces” since 7 August 2005. In ...

(New York) - The Nepali government should immediately reverse its decision to close the popular radio station Kantipur FM and end censorship of the media, Human Rights Watch said today. Human Rights ...

Kathmandu, March 29 -- Anup Kaphle, a Nepali journalist who spent two decades in international newsrooms, has been named Group Editorial Director at Kantipur Media Group, the highest editorial role at ...

The nature of Government in Nepal has raised a lot of doubts about Nepal's democratic future. The commitment to democracy is questionable given the Media Ordinance of Oct 9 2005. The ordinance imposes ...

Radio Sagarmatha is the latest victim of state terror, after Kantipur FM. By attacking the only community radio in South Asia and arresting five employees from the station, the government has ...

The Supreme Court today issued a stay order against the move of the government to cancel the licence of the Kantipur FM hours after admitting a petition today. The apex court ordered the government ...

Nepal's Supreme Court has ordered the government to postpone any move to shut down the country's leading private radio station. The court said no action should be taken against Kantipur FM until a ...

The manner in which the government wanted to impose its will on Kantipur FM 96.1 needs to be roundly condemned as a blatant attack on freedom of the press. It chose the midnight of Friday to stop what ...

The FM licence given to Kantipur FM to operate a 1000 MHz radio station by Information and Communication Minister Java Prakash Gupta is said to have carried a price tag of Rs 20 million. The deal was ...

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