Friday, August 14, 2026

Political

Salary Hike or Hoax? Untangling the Viral Claims About MPs’ Pay

Subscribe to our WhatsApp Channel On 6 August 2026, MP Ramanathan Archchunan held up his salary slip in Parliament and said MPs’ monthly pay and allowances had risen by Rs. 60,000. In a country where public anger over politicians’ perks runs hot, the clip did exactly what you would expect: it lit up social media, […]

Untangling the Kanjipani–NPP Rs. 50 Million Allegation

Subscribe to our WhatsApp Channel A post pairing a photo of President Anura Kumara Dissanayake with a Criminal Investigation Department backdrop made a striking claim: that Rs. 50 million from an account belonging to identified organised criminal and drug trafficker Kanjipani Imran had reached a party fund, and that the matter was under investigation. With […]

International

No Soldier, Just AI: Fake “Attack” Fuels the Misinfo Wave on Imran Khan’s 3rd Year in Jail

Subscribe to our WhatsApp Channel Imran Khan is a name Sri Lankan audiences know well, first as one of cricket’s greatest captains and later as Pakistan’s prime minister. So, when a short video began spreading across Sinhala social media feeds appearing to show a uniformed soldier striking the now-jailed former leader, it triggered immediate shock […]

Rumour vs. Reality: No, Riyadh’s Sri Lankan Embassy Did NOT Ban Its Buddhist Sunday School

Subscribe to our WhatsApp Channel A claim that Sri Lankan diplomats had shut down a Buddhist Sunday school on foreign soil, and blocked Vesak celebrations, was always going to strike a nerve at home. That is exactly what spread across Sinhala social media: posts alleging that the Dhamma school run for a decade by Sri […]

No, PM Modi Did Not Tell India’s Students to ‘Learn from Sri Lanka’s Aragalaya’

Subscribe to our WhatsApp Channel Few words carry as much weight in Sinhala social media as “Aragalaya.” So, a post now spreading fast in Sri Lankan feeds grabs attention: it claims Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, addressing India’s own wave of student protests, appealed to his country’s youth “like a father” not to copy Sri […]

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