Fact Check
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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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Old man in viral social media posts is a US WWII veteran, not a Covid-recovered Italian
US WWII veteran Bill Moore’s image has been wrongly used to support a possibly apocryphal story, w...
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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...
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Photo of a pigeon sitting on a hospital patient circulating with false claims
The photo is almost eight years old and was not taken by a nurse as claimed in social media posts.
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Claim that blames 5G ‘radiation’ for rising Covid-19 cases is baseless
In its fact sheet published last year, the World Health Organization said the coronavirus does not s...
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These ‘basic medicines for Covid-19’ shouldn’t be taken without doctor’s advice
A handwritten ‘Covid tablets’ list is circulating on Facebook and messaging apps such as WhatsAp...
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A supposed home remedy for boosting blood oxygen levels is unfounded
A social media post claims sniffing a mixture of camphor, cloves, carom seeds and eucalyptus oil boo...
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Old foreign photos being circulated as Nepal wildfire photos
Nepal’s major cities including Kathmandu and Pokhara are blanketed by the smoke from the raging wi...
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TikTok user trimmed video to show Dahal in a bad light
A 21-second video clip that shows Maoist leader Pushpa Kamal Dahal criticizing the general people is...
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