{"id":438129,"date":"2026-10-30T21:06:46","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T15:21:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/?p=438129"},"modified":"2026-10-30T21:06:48","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T15:21:48","slug":"discussion-on-a-bill-related-to-press-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/2026\/10\/30\/438129.html","title":{"rendered":"Discussion on a Bill related to Press Council"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Kathmandu:<\/strong> A discussion was held on the Bill designed to amend and consolidate the Press Council Act. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"481\" src=\"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/press-council-nepal.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-342985\" srcset=\"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/press-council-nepal.jpg 800w, https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/press-council-nepal-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/press-council-nepal-768x462.jpg 768w, https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/press-council-nepal-780x470.jpg 780w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The preamble of the Bill has stressed professional and ethical conduct of journalism. The Bill aims to make the press a credible and dignified sector.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Press Council has been proposed as an autonomous regulatory body to promote self-regulation and develop fair, independent and accountable journalism. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Home Minister Sudhan Gurung, Minister for Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Sobita Gautam and Minister for Information and Communications Dr Bikram Timilsina attended the discussion held at the Ministry of Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs on Friday. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">High-ranking government officials and representatives of the Cyber Bureau under the Nepal Police also participated in the discussion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>RSS<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu: A discussion was held on the Bill designed to amend and consolidate the Press Council Act. The preamble of the Bill has stressed professional and ethical conduct of journalism. The Bill aims to make the press a credible and dignified sector. The Press Council has been proposed as an autonomous regulatory body to promote &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":342985,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,2],"tags":[],"reporter":[],"class_list":["post-438129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","category-en-news","category-top-stories-main"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438129"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":438130,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438129\/revisions\/438130"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438129"},{"taxonomy":"reporter","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reporter?post=438129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}