TikTok Returns

With the Nepal Telecommunications Authority instructing all mobile and internet service providers on Friday to lift the 10-month-old ban on TikTok, the government has scrapped the restriction imposed on the popular social media app. Disruption to social harmony was cited as the reason behind the ban. TikTok’s popularity soared in Nepal in the wake of COVID-19 pandemic, reaching over two million active users. At the time, the news of ban elicited mixed responses from Nepalis at home and abroad.