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Gayantha Karunatilleka: Students-to-academic staff ratio
(www.factcheck.lk, 11/30/2023)
FALSE: Although the number of academic staff is dwindling [in recent months], the annual intake of students at universities has doubled since 2017.
Gayantha Karunatilleka, NewsFirst, 19 October 2023
Bandula Gunawardane: Fiscal Management (Responsibility) Act
(www.factcheck.lk, 6/8/2023)
TRUE: …. the Fiscal Management Responsibility Act No. 3 of 2003…had three main goals…to maintain the budget gap below 5%..... reducing public debt as a percentage of GDP to 65% by 2013, that is, in 10 years…. reducing the ...
Anura Kumara Dissanayake: Yugadhanawi Kerawalapitiya Power Plant
(www.factcheck.lk, 10/28/2021)
TRUE:…Basil Rajapaksa in his capacity as the Minister of Finance, presented a cabinet paper and handed over these constructions [to convert the Yugadhanawi Power Plant into an LNG plant] to a US company [New Fortress Energy] ...
Anuradha Jayaratne: Prison population
(www.factcheck.lk, 9/21/2023)
TRUE: As of today, the total number of inmates in prisons are 28,468. […] the number of drug-related offenders has increased rapidly. As per today 50.3% of the total inmates are people who were imprisoned for drug related ...
Harsha de Silva: Budget Deficit
(www.factcheck.lk, 5/13/2021)
TRUE: CBSL Annual Report states Sri Lanka's budget deficit for 2020 [was a] huge 11%. But it should be even higher at 14%. - Harsha de Silva, Harsha de Silva's Official Twitter, 1 May 2021
Eran Wickramaratne: Female Labour Force Participation
(www.factcheck.lk, 10/24/2019)
TRUE: Sri Lanka’s Labour Force Participation (LFP) was 36% for women versus 75% for men in 2016, which is the 14th largest gender gap in LFP globally. In 2016, young women have the highest unemployment rate in Sri Lanka; ...
පසුගියදා වෙඩි තබා ඝාතනය කරනු ලැබූ ඉරෝන් රණසිංහ නමැති පුද්ගලයාගේ සිරුර රූපවාහිනී මාධ්ය විසින් පළ කිරීමට යෙදුනේ මෙසේයි .
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2020-08-12)
In August, 2020 TV channels reported in Sirasa, Hiru, Swarnawahini, Rupavahini, ITN, Sirasa showed blurred pictures and not blurred pictures of Ivon Ranasinghe ( also known as SF Lokka) while showing the background noise ...
මධුෂ් වෙඩි කා නසී: මාකඳුරේ මධුෂ්ගේ මෘතදේහය සහ ආචාර ධර්ම
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2020-10)
On 21st October, Aruna, Mawbima, Divaina and Dinamina reported on the death of Makandure Madush with photographs of corpse and blood that has the potential to evoke fear and shock and doesn't comply with the ethical guidelines.
The Gender Pay Gap in Sri Lanka: A Statistical Review with Policy Implications
(Colombo: ILO, 2024-04)
This report provides the first in-depth quantitative and qualitative analysis of the gender pay gap in Sri Lanka with the intention to unveil not just the extent of the gender pay gap, but the nature of the gender pay gap ...
"කරදර කිරීමක්" ද? "ලිංගික අපයෝජනයක්" ද?
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2023-07)
In the month of July 2023, Sinhala newspapers Mawbima, Lankadeepa, Dinamina and Aruna published articles
that trivialised sex crimes.
On the 10th of July, Mawbima and Aruna reported the sexual abuse of novice monks at ...