Fact Check
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Oli overstates Nepali Muslim numbers
CPN-UML chief KP Oli recently said that Muslims in Nepal make up more than seven percent of the nati...
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Nepali Congress has made false claims in election manifesto
Nepali Congress in its manifesto for the local elections has claimed that the contribution of foreig...
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Kamal Thapa exaggerates Nepali migrant worker death numbers
According to an ILO report, 1004 Nepali migrant workers died in different countries in the fiscal ye...
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PM Dahal does it again, makes wrong claim about economic growth
For the year 2017, the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank have forecast growth rates of 6 per...
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Madhav Nepal was for launching armed struggle against Panchayat from bases in India
South Asia Check could not find any document to confirm or disprove whether Madhav Nepal had propose...
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What the prime minister claims as ‘fact’ is not a ‘fact’ at all
Dahal said: The economic growth forecast for the year is 6.2 percent. This hasn't happened in 24 yea...
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Maoists were not the first to demand federalism
Federalism did not figure in the 40-point demand submitted to the government by the CPN (Maoist) in ...
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CP Mainali and Eknath Dhakal made wrong claims while opposing electoral threshold
Many countries have electoral thresholds. For instance, in Turkey there is a 10 percent threshold to...
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Who should be credited for ending load-shedding?
UML Chairman KP Sharma Oli said the load-shedding had ended as per the work plan made by his governm...
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Amendment bill’s citizenship provision for foreign woman marrying Nepali similar to 1990 constitution
Home Minister and Nepali Congress leader Bimalendra Nidhi last week said the citizenship provision i...
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In Public Interest
There was a time when rice was Nepal’s major export item
Several news reports and articles published in Gorkhapatra between 1974 and 1975 said the agricultur...
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