Subscribe to our WhatsApp Channel On 6 August 2026, MP Ramanathan Archchunan held up his salary slip in Parliament and said MPs’ monthly pay and allowances had risen by Rs. 60,000. In a country where public anger over politicians’ perks runs hot, the clip did exactly what you would expect: it lit up social media, […]
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Subscribe to our WhatsApp Channel A post pairing a photo of President Anura Kumara Dissanayake with a Criminal Investigation Department backdrop made a striking claim: that Rs. 50 million from an account belonging to identified organised criminal and drug trafficker Kanjipani Imran had reached a party fund, and that the matter was under investigation. With […]
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Subscribe to our WhatsApp Channel When unrest broke out at Mahara Prison on Saturday, 1 August 2026, Sri Lankan feeds filled with a far darker story than the facts: that 81 inmates had been killed, some of them shot execution-style with their hands bound. For a country that remembers the deadly 2020 Mahara riot, the […]
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Subscribe to our WhatsApp Channel A claim that Sri Lankan diplomats had shut down a Buddhist Sunday school on foreign soil, and blocked Vesak celebrations, was always going to strike a nerve at home. That is exactly what spread across Sinhala social media: posts alleging that the Dhamma school run for a decade by Sri […]
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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 Nothing stirs Sri Lankan feeds faster than a claim about how public money is spent at the top. Last week, some mainstream outlets and social media posts said an official audit showed 3,089 “outsiders” had stayed at presidential residences in 2025, with tens of millions of rupees spent on them, […]
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Subscribe to our WhatsApp Channel Few words carry as much weight in Sinhala social media as “Aragalaya.” So, a post now spreading fast in Sri Lankan feeds grabs attention: it claims Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, addressing India’s own wave of student protests, appealed to his country’s youth “like a father” not to copy Sri […]
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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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Subscribe to our WhatsApp Channel When Yupun Abeykoon, one of the finest sprinters Sri Lanka has ever produced, announced that he was walking away from the track, the news struck a national nerve. Within hours, a wave of screenshots spread across Facebook, each quoting a government minister appearing to mock the athlete, dismiss his worth, […]
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