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    • Kanniya religious site: A Hindu Kovil or a Buddhist Temple? 

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      Media Team       (Colombo: Veritè Research, 7/23/2019)
      The entry contains the writeup pertaining to the tensed situation in Kanniya in English and Sinhala, Trincomalee in July 2019. In addition it also contains images of newspaper articles.

    • Keheliya Rambukwella: Domestic milk production 

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      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 9/16/2021)
      TRUE: [Local] milk production is still only around 40 per cent of the total requirement. - Keheliya Rambukwella, Daily News, 11 August 2021

    • Keheliya Rambukwella: GDP Growth 

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      Media Team       (www.factcheck.lk, 1/16/2020)
      TRUE: When President Mahinda Rajapaksa took over the country in 2005, the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) was USD 20 billion. In ten years, we increased the GDP to USD 80 billion. - Keheliya Rambukwella, Dinamina, 4 December 2019

    • Keheliya Rambukwella: GDP growth 

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      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 1/15/2020)
      TRUE: When President Mahinda Rajapaksa took over the country in 2005, the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) was USD 20 billion. In ten years, we increased the GDP to USD 80 billion. - Keheliya Rambukwella, Dinamina, 4 December 2019

    • Keheliya Rambukwella: Vaccination ranking 

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      Factcheck       (www.factcheck.lk , 2/10/2022)
      FALSE: In terms of administering both doses of the vaccine, as of yesterday [January 1], we rank 4th in the world; as the highest percentage from the eligible population, we rank 4th out of 194 countries in the world.- ...

    • Labour participation of women in the North 

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      Media Team       (Colombo: Veritè Research, 1/18/2019)
      The entry contains writeups in Sinhala, Tamil and English pertaining to statement of the Governor of the Northern Province, Suren Raghavan on January 16, 2019. He stated that most of the women in the North are only teachers ...

    • Lakshman Kiriella: Bond scandal assets freeze 

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      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 3/11/2020)
      PARTLY TRUE: The allegation is that the UNP caused a loss of LKR 10 billion through bonds. The country has not experienced a loss because the CBSL froze/impounded LKR 12 billion from Perpetual Treasuries. However, the ...

    • Lasantha Alagiyawanna: LPG Standards 

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      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 1/13/2022)
      FALSE: This [LP gas] problem arose - especially this problem of the butane and propane composition - [because] the composition is not mentioned in the standards that have been formulated by the SLSI. - Lasantha Alagiyawanna, ...

    • Lohan Ratwatte: Credit Line for Vehicle Imports 

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      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 7/8/2021)
      BLATANTLY FALSE: This is a credit line…If that credit line is not used, it will go to waste—it must be put to use. Our government will not go into debt by importing those vehicles. - Lohan Ratwatte, Newsfirst.lk, 12 June 2021

    • MA Sumanthiran: Tamil journalists 

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      FactCheck       (factchecklka - Facebook, 12/20/2018)
      PARTLY TRUE: If I remember correctly, [in the past 20 years] 14 Tamil journalists have been murdered. - MA Sumanthiran, 25 October 2018, Mawbima

    • Mahinda Amaraweera: Public Sector Spending 

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      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 10/7/2021)
      FALSE: More than 85% of government revenue goes to pay salaries and pensions to public servants. - Mahinda Amaraweera, Media briefing Department of Government Information, 1 September 2021

    • Mahinda Rajapaksa: Debt 

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      FactCheck       (factchecklka - Facebook, 3/21/2019)
      FALSE: "In the past four years, the UNP-led government has borrowed the equivalent of 50% of the total national debt that was outstanding as at the end of December 2014 from the loans taken in the six decades after gaining ...

    • Mahinda Rajapaksa: Debt-to-GDP 

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      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 2024-02-01)
      PARTLY TRUE: My government reduced the debt-to-GDP ratio from 90% at the end of 2005 to 69% at the end of 2014. Mahinda Rajapaksa, NewsFirst.lk, 8 December 2023

    • Mahinda Rajapaksa: economic growth 

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      FactCheck       (factchecklka - Facebook, 12/10/2018)
      FALSE: In the nine years I was in power, I increased the GDP per capita of this country by a multiple of three. In that period, the economic growth rate was 7.4%. - Mahinda Rajapaksa, 25 November 2018, Derana TV

    • Mahinda Rajapaksa: Electricity access 

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      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 7/16/2020)
      TRUE: We provided electricity to 99.9% of the country. - Mahinda Rajapaksa, Divaina, 24 June 2020

    • Mahinda Rajapaksa: Export Agriculture Crops 

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      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 3/19/2021)
      TRUE: The revenue from export agricultural crops stood at Rs. 63,000 million in 2019. Within one year we have been able to increase it to Rs. 73,000 million. - Mahinda Rajapaksa, Dinamina, 3 March 2021

    • Mahinda Rajapaksa: Office on Missing Persons Act 

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      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 9/3/2020)
      FALSE: “In August of 2016, without even allowing for a parliamentary debate on the matter, the Yahapalana government forcibly enacted the Office on Missing Persons Act.” -Mahinda Rajapaksa, Aruna, 29 June 2020

    • Mahinda Rajapaksa: Women in universities 

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      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 12/20/2019)
      TRUE: Today, the percentage of women studying in universities exceeds 50 percent. - Mahinda Rajapaksa, Divaina, 2 October 2019

    • Mahinda Rajapakse: Budget Deficit 

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      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 11/19/2020)
      FALSE: “…the budget deficit which my government brought down to 5.7 percent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in 2014, has increased to over 9.6 percent of the GDP by 2019… outstanding unpaid bills amounted to Rs. 243 billion, ...

    • Mahindananda Aluthgamage: Agriculture 

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      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 10/7/2020)
      FALSE: 40% of the population is directly employed in agriculture. - Mahindananda Aluthgamage, Mawbima, 17 August 2020