Govt mulls blocking porn sites

KATHMANDU, AUG 13 - Internet surfers will soon have to scale the telecom firewall to access porn sites in Nepal. Nepal Telecommunications Authority at the behest of the Home Ministry is preparing to block pornographic materials on websites.

Nepal Telecommunications Authority (NTA) is working on the same through internet service providers (ISP) and telecom operators providing GPRS facility. NTA has been working in this regard in coordination with the Ministry of Home Affairs, Ministry of Science and Technology and Cyber Cell of the Nepal Police. It has said that it will implement this new provision after one week.

Sale of vehicles almost double

KATHMANDU, AUG 10 - Breaking all past records, the sale of vehicles increased by a whopping 96.73 percent during the last fiscal year 2009-10. The rise was aided by heavy sale of motorcycles across the country.

According to the Department of Transport Management, a total of 201,787 units of vehicles including 168,707 motorcycles were registered during the last fiscal in 13 zonal transport offices, while the registration in the previous fiscal year was 102,570.

In the fiscal year 2008-09, 83,334 units of motorcycles were traded across the country.