The General post office is located near Dharahara Tower and is open from 9 am to 5 pm from Sunday to Friday. Stamps, aerograms and postcards may be purchased from 7 am to 7 pm at the counters. Services like registration and insurance of mail and small packages, and exchange of IRCs are also available. Parcels can be sent and received through the Foreign Post Office next door. It is open from Sunday through Friday from 9 am to 5 pm.

The Nepal Telecommunication Corporation Office located at Tripureswor provides ISD, STD, telex, fax and telegraph services. Private communication centers and hotels also provide ISD, STD and fax services. The Internation Code for Nepal is 977. Inquiries can be made at 197.

Newspapers and Magazines : The major newspapers in Kathmandu are : The Rising Nepal (Daily) - English, The Kathmandu Post (Daily) - English, Gorkhapatra (Daily) - Nepali, Kantipur (Daily) - Nepali. Besides a number of other local and international newspapers and magazines are also available in the book stalls.

Radio : Radio Nepal broadcasts different programs in both short wave and medium wave transmissions through three session in a day from 6 am to 11 pm. FM radio program also broadcats pop music and other programs for entertainment. English news bulletins are broadcast daily between 8 am and 8 pm.

Television : Nepal Television transmits from 7 am to 9 pm and 6 pm to 10:30 pm. On Saturday special entertaining programs are transmitted from 12 noon to 5 pm.