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task_categories:
- text-classification
- zero-shot-classification
- text-generation
- text2text-generation
language:
- ne
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This dataset was collected and compiled from various Nepali news portals to support the community knowledge and research, not for profit. 

Sources:
- Kantipur,
- Gorkhapatra, and
- BBC Nepali ([XL-Sum: Large-Scale Multilingual Abstractive Summarization for 44 Languages](https://huggingface.co/datasets/csebuetnlp/xlsum))

| Category | Count |
| --- | --- |
| News |  36798|
| Sports | 18767|
|Others(Mix) | 7258|
|Opinion | 2358|
|Entertainment | 2144|
|Feature|2014|
|Diaspora|750|
|World | 462|
|Education | 188|
|Blog | 30|
| Total | 70769 |


The following task can be performed using the dataset:
- Nepali News Classification
- Nepali Text Summarization
- Nepali News Headline Generation