Flag present, not equal. Dkrop’s 19 Sept check found Nepal’s flag was not missing from Swarnim Wagle’s meeting with Nirmala Sitharaman: a small desk flag and digital screens appear in other Indian Finance Ministry photos, even if one widely shared shot shows two large Indian flags and no matching Nepali banner.

An edited post is not a planted flag. Wagle’s secretariat Facebook post went up at 7:44 pm and was changed at 10:33 pm—one photo swapped for a view of both flags on a screen. Dkrop: that shows the post changed, not that a flag was added to the room after criticism from Gyanendra Shahi and Narayan Kaji Shrestha.

What photos cannot settle. The outlet did not establish who approved the display or whether Nepal asked for more. Same method on Sobita Gautam’s National Assembly remarks: some of nine tracked bills had moved; one had been blocked. The write-up treats Dkrop as a new Nepali/English/Hindi fact-check shop whose record will rest on sources and corrections, not this one story.

The Nepali news website’s report distinguishes claims that Nepal’s flag was absent from questions about how it was displayed at a meeting in India.

Dkrop has examined a dispute over Nepal’s flag during Swarnim Wagle’s meeting with Indian Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, comparing official photographs with claims made by Nepali political figures.

The report is among the new publication’s early fact-checks on political statements and public affairs. Dkrop publishes in Nepali, English and Hindi. Its recent work includes an examination of parliamentary remarks and an explanation of court orders in a........

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