Subscribe to our WhatsApp Channel When Prime Minister Dr. Harini Amarasuriya handed over the new Faculty of Medicine complex at Sabaragamuwa University on July 4, 2026, the news set off a political tug-of-war online. One set of posts claimed the very same faculty had already been opened by Ranil Wickremesinghe back in 2019, and some […]
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Subscribe to our WhatsApp Channel Sri Lanka crashed out of the upper-middle-income bracket during the worst economic collapse in its history, and in the World Bank’s latest classification, it has climbed back in, this time by a margin of just thirty-four dollars. Yet with prices still elevated, wages below pre-crisis levels and the middle class […]
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Subscribe to our WhatsApp Channel Following crackdowns on cyber fraud operations across Southeast Asia, displaced international criminal syndicates have turned to Sri Lanka, establishing a growing pattern of fraud targeting both Sri Lankans and foreign victims. Official reports confirm that more than 1,000 foreign nationals were arrested for Sri Lanka-linked cyber fraud in just the […]
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Subscribe to our WhatsApp Channel Kasagala Green Plantations (Pvt) Ltd has become the subject of heated debate in recent weeks. The dispute intensified after the Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) issued an official statement rejecting claims its director made during a television appearance and opened a formal investigation soon after. Below is our explainer […]
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Subscribe to our WhatsApp Channel Every few years, El Niño returns, and every time it does, social media fills with fear. This June, NOAA officially declared a new El Niño event, and within days, Sri Lankan social media was flooded with warnings of imminent drought, catastrophic destruction from a “Super El Niño,” and claims that […]
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Subscribe to our WhatsApp Channel A 24-year-old Tamil rapper from Kilinochchi performed at a Hindu temple festival in northern Sri Lanka on a May evening. Days later he was in Jaffna Prison, facing allegations that a song he wrote was an attempt to revive a designated terrorist organization. The arrest of Sangeethsan Ganeskumar, known to […]
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Subscribe to our WhatsApp Channel In early 2025, a nationwide power outage affected much of Sri Lanka, and the cause quickly became the subject of widespread local and international media coverage: a monkey had made contact with a transformer at the Panadura substation. That incident was later found to be linked to system capacity issues, […]
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Subscribe to our WhatsApp Channel When the Indian Rupee hit 96.82 against the US Dollar in May 2026, headlines declared it one of the worst depreciations in the currency’s history. Social media posts and some mainstream reports amplified the alarm, attributing the fall primarily to rising crude oil prices from Middle East conflicts and a […]
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The 2026 Assembly Election has brought about a massive shift in the political history of Tamil Nadu. Breaking the political dominance held alternately by the DMK and AIADMK for nearly 60 years, a new party has assumed power. The following is analysis takes a look at the misinformation spread across social media throughout this election […]
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WHO has declared an Ebola emergency, but not the kind most headlines suggest. The World Health Organization declared the Ebola outbreak affecting the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Uganda a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) on May 17, 2026, after confirmed cross-border spread connected the outbreak in eastern DRC to imported […]
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