The decision to ban over two dozen apps comes two weeks after Nepal’s top court said that online and social media platforms — domestic or foreign — must be mandatorily registered with a competent authority.
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The K.P. Sharma Oli government on Thursday (September 4, 2025) decided to ban as many as 26 social media platforms, including Facebook, X (formerly Twitter), Instagram, and YouTube, citing their failure to meet the deadline to comply with registration requirements in Nepal.Issuing a public notice, the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology said it “has ordered the Nepal Telecommunication Authority to make inactive all non-registered social media sites until they are registered.” Published - September 04, 2025 04:55 pm IST
