{"id":435374,"date":"2026-09-04T13:33:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T07:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/?p=435374"},"modified":"2026-09-04T14:36:42","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T08:51:42","slug":"communication-minister-urges-sensitivity-in-reporting-bhotekoshi-flood-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/2026\/09\/04\/435374.html","title":{"rendered":"Communication Minister urges sensitivity in reporting Bhotekoshi flood victims"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Kathmandu:<\/strong> Minister for Information and Communications Dr Bikram Timilsina has urged the media and social media users to respect the privacy, dignity and security of Bhotekoshi flood victims while reporting on the disaster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said particular care should be taken when publishing the names, photographs and videos of children, postpartum women, bereaved families and other vulnerable people staying in holding centres in Rasuwa and Nuwakot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The minister urged journalists not to enter holding centres without coordination with concerned authorities and to ensure that news gathering does not hinder rescue and relief operations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He also called for the use of verified information from official sources, warning that false or unconfirmed reports could create panic and disrupt rescue efforts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He also called for the use of verified information from official sources, warning that false or unconfirmed reports could create panic and disrupt rescue efforts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":428267,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,76,5],"tags":[],"reporter":[],"class_list":["post-435374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","category-en-news","category-society","category-top-stories"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435374"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=435374"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":435375,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435374\/revisions\/435375"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435374"},{"taxonomy":"reporter","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reporter?post=435374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}