I am a news freak, I mostly visit news sites. Websites as www.news.google.com, www.bbc.com, and www.cnn.com gets my frequent visit for international news but I am more in Nepali news sites. No matter how far you are from your home, you would always have the curiosity to know about the situation in your home-area. News proximity, is the jargon term for this natural appeal that a reader always tends to know about his/her home and its surroundings. So, news online portals of Nepali vernacular dailies as www.ekantipur.com, www.nagariknews.com are my favorite websites.If I had to choose from two of these I would say www.ekantipur.com is my favorite.
These Nepali websites are just filler forums(most of the news in the websites are already published in print paper, live updates and reports are hardly their contents) of the daily newspaper, which is not a great achievement in online journalism. However, looking at the meager budgetary constraints, I have high regards for these publications. Best thing of these website is I could actually read all the news contents of the print version of newspapers in website in its actual replica. (For example, click in this link.). 
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This is a quite surprising thing; because if you got to read the newspaper in this way then you don't have to buy it. But.the audience(readers) are all expected to be in foreign land where the paper is not available. So this does not affects their commercial interest whereas it gathers more goodwill from these prospective costumers.
Journalism is not a easy profession in the circumstances like Nepal, Kantipur Publication( the owner of www.ekantipur.com), the biggest media house of Nepal had gone through many ups and downs, political pressures and survival threats and still stand tall in its motto of reporting objectively and serving to the national interest. Salute to Kantipur Publications and the journalism practioners of Nepal and the world, these are the true warriors of truth!
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