Fact Check
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Old photos of former king and queen circulating with false claims
Nearly three years old photos of former king and queen are being circulated on social media with fal...
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Oli wrongly refers to little people of Africa as ‘Lilliput’
CPN-UML Chairman KP Oli claimed there are little people called Lilliput in Africa. Lilliput in fact ...
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Congress’ Mahat wrong in claiming parties have only moral obligation but no legal compulsion to hold periodic general conventions
Nepal's constitution and Political Parties Act have made it mandatory for political parties to condu...
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Leftist politician falsely claims former Oli government couldn’t bring Covid-19 vaccine
Ram Kumari Jhakri, a politician associated with the proposed CPN (Unified Socialist) claimed that th...
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Image claiming to show recent Kabul evacuation is an old Philippines photo
South Asia Check ran a ‘reverse image search’ of the photo and found the same image on the US Ai...
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Political commentator falsely claims Nepal postage stamp issued in 1958 had a ‘pointy map’
Political commentator Saurabh recently claimed that a postage stamp issued by Nepal government in 19...
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Some pictures circulating as this week’s Melamchi flooding scenes are old
A devastating flooding of the Melamchi River on Tuesday night swept through riverside settlements fr...
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Video clips falsely suggest Covid-19 vaccine makes human body magnetic
Many Nepalis have been sharing video clips claiming they developed magnetism after taking Covid-19 v...
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Prime minister’s press advisor wrongly claims Chure hills lie only in Nepal
The Chure range also known as Siwalik or Sub-Himalaya extends over Bhutan, Nepal, India and Pakistan...
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Birtamod mayor’s misleading remedies for Covid-19 and false claims fact-checked
"When we wear a mask it retains the exhaled air, which is again inhaled and this affects the lungs,"...
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- Fact Check Old photos of former king and queen circulating with false claims
- Fact Check Oli wrongly refers to little people of Africa as ‘Lilliput’
- Fact Check Congress’ Mahat wrong in claiming parties have only moral obligation but no legal compulsion to hold periodic general conventions
- Fact Check Leftist politician falsely claims former Oli government couldn’t bring Covid-19 vaccine
- Fact Check Image claiming to show recent Kabul evacuation is an old Philippines photo
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