Fact Check
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Finance minister’s claim of no labor strike during past two years is false
Finance Minister Yuba Raj Khatiwada has claimed that there have been no labor strikes during the pas...
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PM’s foreign affairs advisor repeats an already debunked claim
To begin with, there was no cold wave in the tarai last winter, so there was no question of anyone d...
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Finance minister makes unreliable claims about Nepali printing industry
Finance Minister Yuba Raj Khatiwada speaking in parliament a few weeks ago made three misleading cla...
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Neither Tilicho nor the new lake are highest in Nepal or world
In fact, Tilicho and the new lake are not even among the top 10 highest lakes in the world.
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Kathmandu PM levels show PM’s air quality claim baseless
Commenting on the air quality of the Kathmandu Valley, Prime Minister KP Oli recently claimed that p...
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Dahal had not helped Madhav Nepal become prime minister
In fact, Dahal had expressed his dissatisfaction even after Nepal was elected prime minister in May ...
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Govt’s policy and program made wrong claim about Raxaul-Amlekhgunj petroleum pipeline
The policy and program document says: The Amlekhgunj-Raxaul-Motihari petroleum pipeline, work on whi...
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Opinion article has errors in figures
Columnist Achyut Wagle in an article on higher education published in The Kathmandu Post on March 19...
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PM wrongly claims credit for no cold wave deaths
Records at the Department of Hydrology and Meteorology show this year the tarai has not experienced ...
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Minister falsely claims credit for Mahendra Highway widening work
Minister Mahaseth said: "None of the past governments had tried to widen the two-lane highway to fou...
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