{"id":67538,"date":"2026-02-01T13:56:51","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T08:11:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kalopati.com\/?p=67538"},"modified":"2026-02-01T14:00:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T08:15:06","slug":"journalist-dinesh-sitaula-passes-away-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.kalopati.com\/news\/67538","title":{"rendered":"Journalist Dinesh Sitaula passes away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p data-start=\"77\" data-end=\"268\">. Dinesh Sitaula, the outgoing president of Film Journalists Association of Nepal, has passed away. According to a press release issued by Grande Hospital in Kathmandu, he passed away at 12:45 pm today. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Sitaula fainted while participating in the election campaign of senior leader of Rastriya Swatantra Party (Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) and former mayor of Kathmandu Balendra Shah (Balen) in Achham.TAG_OPEN_p_5 He was immediately airlifted to Kathmandu by a Nepal Army helicopter and admitted to Grande Hospital. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The hospital said in a statement that his neurological condition did not improve even after 48 hours of treatment despite being in critical condition.TAG_OPEN_p_4 According to the hospital, the &#8216;apnea test&#8217; conducted as per the medical protocol was positive and it was confirmed that he was not breathing on his own and died on the basis of that. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Film and journalism personalities have expressed deep sorrow over Sitaula&#8217;s demise.TAG_OPEN_p_3 <\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>. Dinesh Sitaula, the outgoing president of Film Journalists Association of Nepal, has passed away. According to a press release issued by Grande Hospital in Kathmandu, he passed away at 12:45 pm today. Sitaula fainted while participating in the election campaign of senior leader of Rastriya Swatantra Party (Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) and former mayor<a href=\"https:\/\/english.kalopati.com\/news\/67538\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Journalist Dinesh Sitaula passes away&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":67536,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1391],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized-en"],"acf":[],"publishedDateNp":"\u0967\u096e \u092e\u093e\u0918 \u0968\u0966\u096e\u0968, \u0906\u0908\u0924\u0935\u093e\u0930 \u0967\u0969:\u096b\u096c","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.kalopati.com\/kp_api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.kalopati.com\/kp_api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.kalopati.com\/kp_api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.kalopati.com\/kp_api\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.kalopati.com\/kp_api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67538"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/english.kalopati.com\/kp_api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67539,"href":"https:\/\/english.kalopati.com\/kp_api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67538\/revisions\/67539"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.kalopati.com\/kp_api\/wp\/v2\/media\/67536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.kalopati.com\/kp_api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.kalopati.com\/kp_api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.kalopati.com\/kp_api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}