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![]() Cover of Nepal Magazine (29 January 2017) | |
Editor | Basanta Basnet [1] |
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Founding Editor | Vijay Kumar Pandey [2] |
Categories | News magazine |
Frequency | Weekly |
Circulation | 45,000 |
Publisher | Kailash Sirohiya [3] |
Founded | 2000 [4] |
Company | Kantipur Publications [5] |
Country | Nepal |
Language | नेपाली |
Website | nepalmag |
The Nepal Magazine was a weekly national magazine published by Kantipur Media Group in Kathmandu, which also published Kantipur and The Kathmandu Post . [6] The magazine focused on national socio-political matters of Nepal, with satirical pieces on current affairs and trends of the country, along with lighter stories of lifestyle and arts. [7] Nepal had the country's largest circulation for a weekly news-magazine, according to the official data released by Press Council Nepal in 2016. [8] Basanta Basnet was the Editor. [9] After the COVID-19 pandemic in Nepal, Kantipur media group stopped publishing Nepal Magazine along with its other publications. [10] [11]
Nepal Magazine was established in 2000 as a fortnightly magazine. It had been covering political issues along with photo story, movie review, celebrity gossips and literature. Its two notable annual publication are Plus 2 College Ranking [12] and Person of the year. [4] Nepal was generally regarded as leading and influential nepali magazines, along with Himal Khabarpatrika. [13]
The magazine has been under five editors so far, Vijay Kumar Pandey, Tirtha Koirala, Kishor Nepal, Prashant Aryal, Sudheer Sharma, Narayan Wagle and Basanta Basnet [Editor]. [14]