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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To get daily verified facts, join our WhatsApp channel here. When Prime Minister Harini Amarasuriya recently left for Qatar to convey the Sri Lankan government’s condolences on the death of Qatar’s former ruler, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, a young woman seen beside her at Katunayake Airport set social media alight. In a politically […]
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Soon after the recent arrest of the owner of House of Fashions, a popular clothing store in Sri Lanka, a post spread quickly across social media claiming that Deputy Minister Arkam Ilyas had said, the House of Fashions owner was a huge threat to the Muslim textile-businessmen. The claim, tied to a Muslim politician and […]
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To get daily verified facts, join our WhatsApp channel here. A photo collection and videos spread fast across Facebook and other social media claiming that an English teacher at one of the island’s leading girls’ schools had taken part in an international fashion and modelling pageant held in Malaysia, representing Sri Lanka. The posts claimed […]
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Subscribe to our WhatsApp Channel Sri Lankan pilgrims heading to India’s Buddhist sacred sites have hit a genuine wall this year: visas cost more, processing time is longer and must now be obtained in person. Into that real frustration landed a card bearing the News 1st logo, claiming Minister of Labour and Deputy Minister of […]
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Subscribe to our WhatsApp Channel One of the lingering questions to Sri Lanka’s public sector right now than whether the duty-free vehicle permit scheme will ever come back. Into this long-running debate, dropped a card bearing the News 1st logo, quoting Health Minister Dr. Nalinda Jayatissa as saying the 2027 budget would let doctors import […]
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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 After Cyclone Ditwah, the deadliest disaster to hit Sri Lanka since the 2004 tsunami, the government opened a donation fund called ‘Rebuilding Sri Lanka.’ As money flowed in, a newspaper line about where the donations were being held was picked up by a television review show and then by social […]
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