“Some news channels broadcasting objectionable content are still prohibited in Nepal.
Kathmandu:
Cable TV operators in Nepal partially lifted the ban on private Indian news channels on Monday.
Cable operators meet to lift ban on Indian news channels, only a few news channels still banned in Nepal, vice president of TV operators association Dhurba Sharma told reporters .
“Some news channels broadcasting objectionable content are still prohibited in the country,” said Sharma.
Cable operators interrupted the transmission of all private Indian news channels with the exception of Doordarshan on Thursday, accusing them of having broadcast reports damaging Nepal’s national sentiment.
The Nepalese Ministry of Communications and Information Technology also thanked the cable operators for taking action against the Indian news channels.
On Friday, Nepal sent a “diplomatic note” to India, urging New Delhi to take action against the release of documents it described as “false, baseless and insensitive and abusive” to the country and its people. leaders by a section of the Indian media.
“Such documents are not only misleading and uninformed, but also undermine the sense of minimal public decency,” the ministry said in the note.
Bilateral relations between India and Nepal were strained after Defense Minister Rajnath Singh launched an 80-km-long strategic route from Lipulekh Pass to Dharchula in Uttarakhand on May 8.
Nepal reacted strongly to the inauguration of the road, claiming that it crossed Nepalese territory. India has rejected the claim claiming that the road lies entirely within its territory.
Later, Nepal updated the political map of the country through a constitutional amendment, incorporating three strategically important Indian areas.
India has called “untenable” “artificial enlargement” of Nepal’s land claims. India has issued a diplomatic note to Nepal on the issue of the card, according to Nepalese media.
Nepalese Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli, under pressure to resign in the midst of a split in the ruling Nepalese Communist Party over his operating style, alleged that some of the leaders of the ruling party were lining up with the neighbor of the south to remove him from power after the publication of his government a new political map incorporating three Indian territories of Lipulekh, Kalapani and Limpiyadhura.
His allegations have been criticized by senior NCP leaders, including former Prime Minister “Prachanda”, who called for the resignation of Prime Minister Oli, saying his recent anti-Indian remarks were “neither politically correct nor diplomatically appropriate. “.
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