Subscribe to our WhatsApp Channel Sri Lanka’s debt is personal for every taxpayer who lived through the 2022 default, so a post now spreading on social media lands hard: “Thieves plundered for 74 years and ran up Rs. 22 trillion in debt; Anura came and pushed it to Rs. 34 trillion in 17 Poya days” […]
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Subscribe to our WhatsApp Channel The United States is Sri Lanka’s single biggest export market. So, when news broke that Washington had cut the additional tariff on Sri Lankan goods from a proposed 12.5% to 10%, right after Colombo banned imports made with forced labour, it mattered to a lot of households. What exactly has […]
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Subscribe to our WhatsApp Channel Nothing stirs Sri Lankan feeds faster than a claim about how public money is spent at the top. Last week, some mainstream outlets and social media posts said an official audit showed 3,089 “outsiders” had stayed at presidential residences in 2025, with tens of millions of rupees spent on them, […]
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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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Subscribe to our WhatsApp Channel Few animals are as well known to Sri Lankans as Randeniye Bandara, the majestic tusker also called the Warakagoda elephant, a regular sight at temple peraheras. So, when he was struck by a tipper truck on the Kurunegala–Dambulla road on July 28, 2026, the whole country followed the news anxiously. […]
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The 2026 FIFA World Cup made history both on and off the pitch. Hosted jointly by Canada, Mexico, and the United States, it was the first tournament to feature 48 teams and 104 matches, making it the largest FIFA World Cup ever held. Spain lifted the trophy after defeating Argentina 1-0 in extra time, concluding […]
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Subscribe to our WhatsApp Channel Sri Lankans love their Tamil cinema heroes, and few command a following here quite like Thalapathy Vijay, now the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu. So, when posts began landing in Sinhala feeds claiming that Vijay had ordered rapists to be hanged within 24 hours, many shared them with pride, as […]
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Subscribe to our WhatsApp Channel When Yupun Abeykoon, one of the finest sprinters Sri Lanka has ever produced, announced that he was walking away from the track, the news struck a national nerve. Within hours, a wave of screenshots spread across Facebook, each quoting a government minister appearing to mock the athlete, dismiss his worth, […]
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Subscribe to our WhatsApp Channel When Bangladesh’s ODI captain Mehidy Hasan Miraz walked onto the field for his LPL 2026 debut wearing a Galle Gallants jersey with something taped over a sponsor logo, social media did what it does best: it ran in two different directions at once. Across Sri Lanka, Tamil-speaking audiences saw a […]
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To get daily verified facts, join our WhatsApp channel here. Every so often, a post races across social media claiming that a well-known content creator has suddenly died, often in a road accident, and dressed up with a real crash photo to look convincing. The latest targets a woman known online as Dileka Weenavi. We […]
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