KATHMANDU, July 9 -- Nepali cable service providers have stopped airing Indian news channels in Nepal. Multi System Operators (MSOs) in Nepal have decided that all the Indian news channels except Doordarshan, the state-owned television channel in India, will not be broadcast in Nepal.

According to the vice chairman of Mega Max TV, Dhruba Sharma, the cable operators took the decision to this effect on Thursday.

Without following even a minimum level of ethics of journalism, Indian news channels have been broadcasting misleading news contents related to Nepal in recent days amid the tense relations between these two neighbors after Nepal issued its new political map including the disputed regions of Kalapani, Lipu Lekh and Limpiyadhura. ...