Subscribe to our WhatsApp Channel With dengue cases past 50,000 and several districts nearing epidemic levels, Sri Lanka spent early July 2026 on edge over the outbreak. Into that anxious moment dropped a card carrying the News 1st logo and dated July 5, which quoted Health Minister Dr. Nalinda Jayatissa as saying the government bears […]
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Subscribe to our WhatsApp Channel Scroll through Tamil social media on any given day and you will find someone selling a miracle cure for hair loss. The pitch is always the same: 16 or 48 or 65 Ayurvedic herbs, a mysterious animal ingredient, guaranteed results in weeks, all-island delivery. The latest product making this circuit […]
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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 Some hoaxes refuse to die. A voice message claiming that ISIS operatives are posing as NGO workers across Sri Lanka, visiting homes under the guise of collecting blood samples and injecting people with the HIV virus has been circulating on WhatsApp and social media since at least 2014. It spread […]
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Subscribe to our WhatsApp Channel When a prominent and controversial religious figure is at the center of a legal dispute involving a luxury apartment, social media rarely waits for the full story. Posts circulated widely claiming that Venerable Galagoda Aththe Gnanasara Thero and his associates had forcibly seized and refused to vacate a high-value property […]
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Subscribe to our WhatsApp Channel Former Director of the State Intelligence Service, retired Major General Suresh Sallay, was arrested by the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) on charges of involvement in the 2019 Easter Sunday attacks. He is currently receiving treatment at the Colombo National Hospital under tight security due to his deteriorating health condition. In […]
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Subscribe to our WhatsApp Channel The claim that Deputy Minister of Religious and Cultural Affairs Mohamed Muneer had publicly announced the incorporation of Thesawalamai and Sharia law into Sri Lanka’s national legal system, spread rapidly across social media, framed as a legitimate newspaper article. But is it true? We investigated. Social Media Posts : The […]
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A video ridiculing former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has once again been making the rounds on social media circles, which we found to be an instance of an altered clip. Let’s look at the claim in detail. Social media posts: The video purportedly depicts a series of scenes in which it is claimed that the former […]
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International Fact-Checking Day is observed every year on April 2. This day serves as an important reminder for the public to understand that not everything seen online is true, especially in a time when misinformation is rapidly spreading across digital platforms. Although a specific day is dedicated to fact-checking, the practice of verifying information should […]
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Did you spot the red flags? If you almost tapped that link, you’re not alone. Every day, millions of people fall for messages just like these on platforms like WhatsApp and Facebook. Scammers design these scams to appear simple, attractive, and urgent, making it easy to deceive even the most cautious users. Let’s break down […]
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