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SERVICES
The
General Post Office (tel 227499, 211760) is located near Dharahara
Tower and is open from 9 am to 5 pm from Sunday to Friday. Stamps,
aerograms and postcards may be purchased from 7 am to 7 pm at the
counters. Services like registration and insurance of mail and small
packages, and exchange of IRCs are also available.
Parcels
can be sent and received through the Foreign Post Office next door.
It is open from Sunday through Friday from 9 am to 5 pm.
The
Nepal Telecommunication Corporation Office located at Tripureswor
provides ISD, STD, telex, fax, and telegraph services. Private communication
centers and hotels also provide ISD, STD, and fax services.
The
STD code for Nepal is 977. Inquiries can be made at 197.
NEWSPAPERS
AND MAGAZINES
The major newspapers in Kathmandu are The Rising Nepal (Daily) -
English, The Kathmandu Post (Daily)- English, Gorkhapatra (Daily)-
Nepali, Kantipur (Daily) - Nepali. Besides a number of other local
and international newspapers and magazines - are also available
in the book stalls.
RADIO
Radio Nepal broadcasts different programs in both short wave and
medium wave transmissions through three session in a day from 600
A.M. to 11 P.M. FM Radio program also broadcasts pop music and other
programs for entertainment. English news bulletins are broadcast
daily between 8 A.M. and 8 P.M.
TELEVISION
Nepal television transmits from 700 A.M. to 9 A.M. and 600 P.M.
to 1030 P.M. On Saturday special entertaining programs are transmitted
from 12 noon to 5 P.M.
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