Nepal Monitor is a national online

ONLINE

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 journal

Magazine

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 on Nepal

Nepal

Nepal , officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked sovereign state located in South Asia. It is located in the Himalayas and bordered to the north by the People's Republic of China, and to the south, east, and west by the Republic of India...

 and Nepali affairs. It covers a wide variety of topics and aims to "demystify expert knowledge." Originally, it started as Newslookmag.com, considered as the country's first complete online newsmagazine (started in 1999).

In 2005, the site was banned in Nepal by the royal government

Government

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of the time. The journal is co-edited by Dharma Adhikari and Chiranjibi Kafle and is published in the United States.