Posted by: pire December 29, 2010
Nepali Newspapers Reliability Again
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Yuwa Manch was very famous for straightly lifting materials from Indian C-grade magazines. So, you were more than likely to find news such as "A man gets pregnant" (with a fake photo), or "A doctor takes out tongue while doing dental surgery in Albania". Anything was a fair game. The staffs in the newspaper copied those stuffed from Indian magazines and translated them into Nepalese. Of course, no credit was given to the Indian magazines.

I remember those incidences today as I read this news clip in Saptahik:
http://www.ekantipur.com/saptahik/article/?id=3202

My view is that the author probably lifted it from some C-grade paper. I checked for the book mentioned in the article and found none. Nor did I find the name of the professor as the head of department of biology in UC in my google search. My google and amazon search for the book was also unable to return the book.

Just to make the article sound reliable, the author faked pretty much everything.  I hope he wrote the source of his article in the paper version...
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