Due to the recent shortage of imported milk powder in the local market, long queues of people to buy milk powder were observed in Sri Lanka. However, government decided to remove the price control for milk powder packs in order to make the products sufficiently available in the market. Just after the lifting of controlled […]
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Controversial Swedish artist Lars Vilks was killed in a car crash on October 4, 2021, after two murder attempts by fanatics following his drawing of the Prophet Mohammed with a dog. Shortly after the death of the provocateur artist at Sweden, a video is circulating on social media platforms claiming it is from the same […]
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Yohani De Silva, a Sri Lankan young artist who has become world famous within very short period with her cover for the song, “Manike Mage Hithe”. Her popularity was specialy soaring among Indian audiences and Yohani was recently invited to attend few musical shows in India. Number of social media posts started circulating in Sri […]
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Teachers and principals started a series of island wide protests demanding a solution to long standing salary anomalies. Opposition parties also offered support for this movement, stating that the current government has failed to address this pressing issue. However, many citizens started criticizing the teachers` protests, claiming the time was not right for protests, while […]
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Covid 19 virus has been spreading rapidly over the past few weeks in Sri Lanka.The number of infected people as well as the number of deaths are increasing daily. Due to this intensifying situation in the country, the management of covid19 infected death bodies has become a challenge to the country`s health authorities. Also the […]
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Unbelievable statistical explanations, claiming to be facts based on reports misattributed to reputed international organizations often get a lot of engagement among social media users. Despite a number of online sources to verify the actual facts, we noticed one such claim related to world population going viral among Facebook users. Here is an investigation done […]
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Wildlife photos, especially those that are considered rare and unusual often get shared by social media users enthusiastically. But, sometimes the stories that are shared along with these images are not authentic or sometimes exaggerated. Factcrescendo Sri Lanka team came across one such miscaptioned photograph of a snake which went viral among Sri Lankan social […]
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“Man’s best friend” is a popular phrase used to describe domestic dogs referring to their close relationship, loyalty, friendship and companionship with humans. There are many real life stories about dog’s loyalty and love towards its master that we come across on social media and mainstream media. We found one such story trending on social media, where it […]
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Dr. Punchinilame Meegaswatte, Secretary of the Sri Lanka National Commission for UNESCO (SLNCU), stated that there is no threat of deforestation in Sinharaja reserve as claimed by many. This statement had been a hot topic on both mainstream media and social media, over the past couple of weeks. A number of media organizations in the […]
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Deforestation is a hot topic in Sri Lanka these days. Ever since Bhagya Abeyratne spoke about it on Sirasa Lakshapathi program, social media was abuzz with various kinds of images claiming to be of deforestation happening in various parts of the island. We noticed a particular Facebook page that had posted a number of posts […]
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