Isuru Udana, who represented Sri Lanka at under-19 level, rose through the ranks in 2009 and he was selected into the national side for the World T20. However, after a brief stint in the national side, he was side-lined for years. Recently, he made a comeback into the national squad and played in different leagues […]
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Various posts suggesting places to visit in Sri Lanka during ongoing holidays have started appearing on Facebook. Out of which, some are regarding virgin places, which travelers rarely visited. Below given is an example of such posts, which was first posted on August and since then has been shared and claimed on multiple occasions to […]
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Lata Mangeshkar dubbed as the “Nightingale of India” is among the most respected play-back singers in India and also was the second-most Google Indian in 2019. In 1974, the Guinness Book of Records ranked her as the most recorded artiste in the history. She had reportedly sung over 25,000 songs between 1948 and 1974. In […]
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A recent drive to create wall arts around many parts of the country was lauded by many quarters irrespective of political differences, while some concerns were raised more recently about the quality of some of the paintings and whether there should be some guidelines before making decisions on such painting and the conveyed message. A […]
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Sri Lanka is a multi-cultural and multi linguistic country with Sinhalese forming the majority followed by Tamils, Muslims and Christians. The victorious candidate of the Presidential election 2019, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, led his campaign on national security and unitary nation concepts. The official results indicated that the UDF candidate sweeping the districts of North and […]
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A video was seen circulating heavily in social media that Tamil National Alliance (TNA) leader R.Sambanthan says that President Candidate Sajith Premadasa suggest a bigger solution beyond Eelam. Facebook Link | Archived Link “Gangster Rathne ගැන්ස්ටර් රත්නේ” Facebook Page shared a post that mentioned “තිස්දහසක් ජිවිත පුදා රැකගත් දේශය අනතුරේ…ඊළමට එහා ගිය විසදුමක් සජිත්ගෙන් ” […]
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A post with an image claimed to be from US Justice department went viral within few hours of posting as it mentioned that all the documents SLPP Presidential Candidate , Gotabaya Rajapaksa has produced so far are fake. “ගෝඨා මෙතෙක් පෙන්වූ ගෝනි සෙල්ලම ඉවරයි..! ගෝ්ඨාභය පෙන්වන සහතික බොරු..! පුරවැසිභාවය ඉවත්කිරීම අහවර නෑ..! ඇමරිකානු අධිකරණ දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව […]
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As the election date draws closer, it’s natural to see number of false claims especially on artists and cricketers and is a famous avenue for misinformation. We had already debunked a claim that stated actress Nehara Peiris offered support for the each of the two main candidates by supporters of both parties. Fact-Check: Nehara Peiris […]
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Some Facebook Posts and even mainstream news websites claim that Burqa and Niqab (veils) are banned at the polling centers during the upcoming presidential election on 16th of November as informed by the Election Commission. Below is one such claim in which Traditional Muslims – Sri Lanka Facebook Page stated the following in the caption […]
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Social Media Posts Facebook posts claiming to be the photograph of the century were viral, along with a picture that described extraordinary scenery. The claim narrates that a lioness and her cub were crossing the African Savanna, but the cub was in great difficulty. An elephant realized this discomfort and decided to carry the cub […]
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