Articles by Injina Panthi

• Social media posts claiming international news media praised CPN-UML general convention are baseless Social media posts are circulating with claims that the grandeur of the CPN-UML general convention d... Read More
• 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... Read More
• 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... Read More
• 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... Read More
• 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... Read More
• 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,"... Read More
• Nepal village photo used in the context of Indian cricket misleads many A Pyuthan photo posted on Twitter by an Indian businessman in the context of Indian cricket has misl... Read More
• Read this before opting for alternative remedies for Covid-19 The effects of reckless consumption of herbs may not be seen immediately, but it can cause harm in t... Read More
• Koirala wrong in saying constitution has set two-term limit for prime minister Nepali Congress central committee member Shekhar Koirala thinks that one five-year term will be enou... Read More
• Rajendra Mahato repeats debunked myth about Nepal’s water resources Janata Samajwadi Party leader Rajendra Mahato’s another claim that Nepal airlifted fuel from Bangk... Read More
• Viral Nepal map from Grade 8 textbook: Many misread Anno Domini as Bikram Sambat The misleading claims that the map was from 2011 BS circulated on social media because the social me... Read More
• Fact-checked: WHO hasn’t revised coronavirus risk level for Nepal Nepal is not off the WHO list of high COVID-19 risk countries although several Nepal-based news outl... Read More
• News reports of impending internet outage are false The reports of an impending two-day-long worldwide internet outage published by several Nepali news ... Read More
• COVID-19: What’s circulating on social media and what are the facts? Misinformation and false claims about the COVID-19 pandemic continue to spread especially through th... Read More
• Women ministers in Nepal After the advent of democracy in Nepal in 1951, it took over eight years for the first woman to beco... Read More