{"id":961480,"date":"2025-09-13T11:20:44","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T05:50:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=961480"},"modified":"2025-09-13T11:20:44","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T05:50:44","slug":"nepal-social-media-ban-over-100000-citizens-meet-on-this-chat-app-to-choose-interim-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/09\/13\/nepal-social-media-ban-over-100000-citizens-meet-on-this-chat-app-to-choose-interim-leader\/","title":{"rendered":"Nepal social media ban: Over 100,000 citizens meet on this chat app to choose interim leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Soon after Nepal\u2019s government social media ban led to violent protests and, eventually, a political collapse, more than 1,00,000 citizens converged on a chat app to select the country\u2019s next interim leader, a report has said, adding that after a series of heated debates and polls, the group has settled around a single name: Sushila Karki, the country&#8217;s former chief justice.<\/p>\n<p>According to a report by The New York Times, several Nepali citizens turned to Discord\u2014a platform known for its gaming communities\u2014to fill the political void left by the resignation of the prime minister.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soon after Nepal\u2019s government social media ban led to violent protests and, eventually, a political collapse, more than 1,00,000 citizens converged on a chat app to select the country\u2019s next interim leader, a report has said, adding that after a series of heated debates and polls, the group has settled around a single name: Sushila Karki, the country&#8217;s former chief justice. According to a report by The New York Times, several Nepali citizens turned to Discord\u2014a platform known for its gaming communities\u2014to fill the political void left by the resignation of the prime minister.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-961480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=961480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=961480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=961480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=961480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}