Nepal, April 22 -- Government has to provide better protection to media workers

Yet another journalist has become a victim of violence and intimidation, reinforcing the fact that the authorities are still failing to ensure a safe environment for them to perform their duties. On Friday night, unidentified miscreants attacked a crime reporter of Bangla daily Jugantor with some sort of powdery substance that stung, leading to his hospitalisation. Attacks on journalists are, unfortunately, nothing new; it's a textbook scare tactic. But how is it that after countless such incidents over the years, the government is still failing to ensure the safety of media workers?

Before spraying him with the powder, the two masked miscreants mentioned th...