Kantipur FM 96.1

08/03/2016

Kantipur FM 96.1

Kantipur FM 96.1:

Kantipur FM 96.1 is one of the main private FM radio stations in Nepal. Radio Kanpur has the biggest working system which covers districts and its encompassing regions including our neighboring nation. It has transmission through Bareheaded, Airguns, Bhairahawa, Chit wan, Buchwald, Pharaoh, Nepalese, & Gadding hand-off stations while Pulchritude, Plurality is the primary station. Since its foundation Kanpur FM has been telecasting through 96.1 MHz and in 2065 B.S it began its western transmission through 101.8 MHz i.e. (pharaoh, Nepalese and Gadding)Kanpur FM 96.1

Kanpur is a Nepali language daily newspaper, published from Kathmandu, Srinagar, Nepalese, and Bharat of Nepal simultaneously. It was founded by Sh-yam GenBank.

Kanpur’s publishers report that the circulation of this newspaper is just above 350,000 copies per day. It is regarded as one of the most widely read newspaper in Nepal, as well as a good source of information of homeland for Nepali diaspora.

The newspaper which began publishing on 7th Falgun, 2047 B.S. along with its sister publication “The Kathmandu Post” is often credited for taking lead in institutionalizing free press and professional journalism in the country.

Kanpur has been praised for its stance towards multi-party democracy and press freedom in Nepal but also has faced government scrutiny and repression. After publishing then rebel leader Babu Ram Bhattarai’s article on Royal Massacre, government arrested then editor Yuvraj Quagmire and other management team members.