On December 8, 1999, a news regarding the special session called by His Majesty the King was aired by “ZEE News”.

In the news His Majesty the King’s name was reported as Birendra Pratap Singh. People say making such mistakes is an old culture of Indian media and TV channels. But Indian channels never make a mistake while taking the name of the Bhutanese king nor do they make any mistakes while taking names of ministers of states.

What is reason behind taking the Nepalese king’s name wrongly? What is the reliability of  such news channel which can not take the name of its neighbouring country’s King name correctly?

(Naya Rastra Pukar, Thursday, Dec. 9)