Kathmandu, Feb. 4 -- On Sunday evening, internet users across Nepal experienced a complete service shutdown, lasting nearly an hour, causing widespread disruption. The reason for the outage initially remained unclear.

The Internet service providers (ISPs) attributed the problem to technical glitches with upstream providers in India, from whom Nepali ISPs source their bandwidth.

This marks Nepal's second nationwide internet shutdown, following a similar incident in May 2023.

The recent disruption was reportedly caused by fibre cuts in Airtel's network in Birgunj and Bhairahawa.

"It is unusual for problems to occur simultaneously at two locations, but at around 9 pm, internet services around the country went down for 47 minutes," said S...