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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... Read More
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 ... 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
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... Read More
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... Read More
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... 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
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... 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

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