Nepal Telecom Authority Blocks Over 200,000 Websites and Apps for Online Betting and Illegal Financial Transactions

Kathmandu. Nepal Telecommunications Authority has blocked more than two hundred thousand websites and apps involved in online betting and illegal financial transactions.

The government had included the issue of preventing online betting and fraud (scamming) in its one hundred agendas related to governance reform issued on Chaitra 13. Point 42 of the agenda states, 'The Ministry of Communications and Information Technology will block betting apps and related websites within 24 hours.'