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 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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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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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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To get daily verified facts, join our WhatsApp channel here. With the Esala and Dalada Perahera season under way, a claim spread fast across social media: that Deputy Minister of Urban Development Eranga Gunasekara had said the Dalada Perahera’s street procession should be stopped and confined to the Temple of the Tooth alone. Carried on […]
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Subscribe to our WhatsApp Channel Update – 27 July 2026: The Indian High Commission has announced that free visas are once again being issued to Sri Lankan pilgrims travelling to India. In a statement, the High Commission of India in Sri Lanka said it has reinstated the scheme for issuing free (fee-waived) visas to groups […]
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Subscribe to our WhatsApp Channel For a country still climbing out of economic collapse, it was a flattering headline: Deputy Minister of Housing, Construction and Water Supply, T.B. Sarath said international bodies including the World Bank had certified Sri Lanka as South Asia’s fastest-growing economy, ahead of India and Pakistan. Mainstream and social media carried […]
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Join our WhatsApp channel here for daily, verified facts. Subscribe to our WhatsApp Channel Beira Lake, the notoriously polluted stretch of water in the heart of Colombo, has resisted clean-up efforts for decades. So, when word spread that a well-known businessman had agreed to personally foot the bill to flush it with seawater, it […]
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Subscribe to our WhatsApp Channel A striking line raced across Sri Lankan social media: a third of the money the country borrowed from the International Monetary Fund had been stolen, some posts went further and accused the government of pocketing it. The charge was explosive, and the figure sounded precise enough to believe. We traced […]
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Subscribe to our WhatsApp Channel President Anura Kumara Dissanayake had been expected to travel to France in mid-July 2026. As that date neared, a post spread across social media claiming France had rejected the President’s visa outright, and had done so over the Negombo Prison deaths, an alleged central bank fraud, a fraudulent passport tender […]
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