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Broadband internet kept at its core should be seen for what it is: an important tool, not a miraculous solution for all the ills in society -  SHAILESH PANDEY ,  HARSHA MAN MAHARJAN & YOGESH RAJ Aug 28, 2015- The draft National Information and Communication Technology (NICT) Policy 2015, floated for public discussion by Nepal Telecommunication Authority (NTA) on August 4, repeats the flawed visions about the miraculous power of ICTs. We call for the policy to be more evidence-based. The NICT Policy aims to supersede the related IT Policy 2010, which envisages the Department of Information Technology (DoIT) under the Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment (MoSTE) as the lead agency. Accordingly, DoIT has floated a draft implementation plan ‘National IT Roadmap.’ The NCIT Policy, prepared by the Ministry of Information and Communications (MoIC), proposes to restructure both the ministries as well as the NTA. The contention over jurisdictio...

 - Post Report, Kathmandu Aug 18, 2015-  Kantipur Media Group (KMG) on Tuesday night launched a new futuristic digital news platform, Ekantipur that hopes to revolutionise reading experience for its subscribers. The new platform hosts Ekantipur app--an upgraded version of the KMG application, seven websites of The Kathmandu Post, the Kantipur daily, Nepal, Nari, Saptahik, Radio Kantipur and Kantipur Television, and a mobile SMS news subscription service. The platform was developed following two years of back-end research spearheaded by Kantipur Digital Corp (KDC), KMG’s digital wing. The Kathmandu Post’s digital edition is available at kathmandupost.ekantipur.com. The new website will give readers a richer experience through multi-media and other exclusive contents. As well as providing contents from all the outlets of KMG, the Ekantipur app will enable users to view epapers in high resolution. This is the third digital upgrade for The Kathmandu Post and its sister...

I have realized links of some of news and article available online break later due to different reasons. Here I will post entire news, article and give full credit to the original source. My intention is to get all materials on Nepali media in one place.