Fact Check
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Ex-PM Khanal grossly exaggerates Nepal’s hydropower generation potential
Ruling NCP leader and former prime minister Jhalanath Khanal citing unnamed experts recently claimed...
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Finance minister overstates health sector allocation, makes wrong claim about Nepal’s income tax regime
Yuba Raj Khatiwada speaking at a post-budget presser said the allocation for the health sector has d...
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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...
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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...
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Viral video clips involving Sujata Koirala were manipulated to create controversy
Two video clips are circulating on social media with claims that Nepali Congress leader Sujata Koira...
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Video clip of anti-India demonstration being circulated on social media is six months old
Last November, protests erupted in Nepal after India published a new political map by including Kala...
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5-year-old India toilet photo is circulating as photo of Bharatpur coronavirus hospital toilet
South Asia Check did a reverse image search on Google and found that the image is more than five yea...
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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...
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News reports of impending internet outage are false
The reports of an impending two-day-long worldwide internet outage published by several Nepali news ...
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PM advises misleading remedies against COVID-19
During a video conference with the chief ministers on April 11, Prime Minister KP Oli advised 'remed...
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