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Dayasiri Jayasekara: Industrial GDP
(www.factcheck.lk , 3/31/2022)FALSE: Industrial sector is in a huge crisis at present, every government after 77’ is responsible for this.... The industrial sector which was at all times 54%, reduced to 27%. – Dayasiri Jayasekara, Ada Derana, 04 February 2022. -
Dayasiri Jayasekara: Tourism earnings
(www.factcheck.lk, 7/29/2021)TRUE: The tourism industry has collapsed completely following the Easter Sunday attacks and following this COVID-19 pandemic. Due to the collapse of the tourism industry, we have lost USD 5 billion per year that the country ... -
Difference in press headlines on 05 July 2019
(Colombo: Veritè Research, 7/5/2019)Difference between headlines of SInhala and Tamil press on 05 July 2019. Main story - Sinhala - Father who attempted to enter school without authorisation shot dead by soldier (Lankadeepa, Ada, Mawbima, Divaina) Main story ... -
Difference in press headlines on 09 August 2019
(Colombo: Veritè Research, 8/9/2019)Difference in headlines between Sinhala and Tamil press on 09 August 2019. Main story - Sinhala - Gamini Senarath acquitted and released on alleged misappropriation of Rs. 500 million (Lankadeepa. Ada, Divaina) Mainstory ... -
Difference in press headlines on 12 July 2019
(Colombo: Veritè Research, 7/12/2019)Difference between headlines in Sinhala and Tamil press on 12 July, 2019. Main story - Sinhala - Dr. Shafi remanded till July 25, Main story - Tamil - Government wins No Confidence Motion -
Difference in press headlines on 19 July 2019
(Colombo: Veritè Research, 7/19/2019)Difference between headlines in the Sinhala and Tamil press on 19 July 2019. Main story - Sinhala - Rs. 17.57 billion given to Hizbullah to build the Batticaloa University (Lankadeepa, Mawbima, Dinamina) Main story - ... -
Difference in press headlines on 21 June 2019
(Colombo: Veritè Research, 6/21/2019)Difference between headlines of Sinhala and Tamil press Main headline - Sinhala - Action against nine heads of police for failing to prevent Easter attacks (Lankadeepa, Ada, Mawbima) Main headline - Tamil - Upgrading of ... -
Difference in Sinhala and Tamil press headlines on 05 June 2019
(Colombo: Veritè Research, 6/5/2019)Difference between headlines in the Sinhala and Tamil press. Main story - Sinhala - Three-member committee to accept complaints against Hizbullah, Salley and Bathiudeen (Lankadeepa, Mawbima, Ada, Divaina) Main story - ... -
Dinesh Gunawardena: Foreign Remittances
(www.factcheck.lk, 6/18/2020)TRUE: In 2018 the income the country received from overseas workers was about USD 7 billion. That was 7.9% of that year’s GDP. - Dinesh Gunawardena, Divaina, 9 June 2020 -
Dinesh Gunawardena: IDP Resettlement
(www.factcheck.lk, 3/25/2020)PARTLY TRUE: “Sri Lanka also made significant progress in the resettlement of over 440,000 IDPs … presently it has risen to 93.76%.” - Dinesh Gunawardena, Daily FT, 28 February 2020 -
The Divide (Public Senti-meter Analysis) Measuring Impact: Quarterly Report: February - May 2019
(Veritè Research, 2019-06)The manner in which the SInhala and Tamil press are divided in their reportage on several issues pertaining to Sri Lanka. -
Divide - Sinhala Headings - May 09, 2019
(Colombo: Veritè Research, 5/9/2019)Infographic of the headlines published in the Sinhala press on 2019 May 09. Featured newspapers - Divaina, Lankadeepa, Ada -
The divide between the Sinhala and Tamil press headlines on 09 May 2019
(Colombo: Veritè Research, 5/9/2019)Difference between headlines in Sinhala and Tamil press. Main story - Sinhala - Swords recovered in Maligawatte Main story - Tamil - President Maithripala Sirisena in Sainthamaruthu says he will not allow terrorism -
Dr. Nandalal Weerasinghe: IMF
(www.factcheck.lk , 6/16/2022)TRUE: An Extended Fund Facility (EFF) - which allows longer repayment periods - may be best suited to the country, it typically requires deeper structural reforms. Nandalal Weerasinghe, Daily News, 19 April 2022. -
Dr. P.K.G Harishchandra: Reserves
(www.factcheck.lk, 2024-02-29)PARTLY TRUE: “[…] We've been able to build up reserves to 4.4 billion by the end of last year.” Assistant Governor Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) P. K. G. Harischandra, CBSL Monetary Policy Review No. 01 of 2024, 23 ... -
Dullas Alahapperuma: Forex Earnings
(www.factcheck.lk, 5/7/2021)PARTLY TRUE: The largest foreign exchange earners contributing USD 7 billion to the economy of this country are the women of our country who perform drudgery in the Middle East. Number two is the apparel industry. USD 5.6 ... -
Dullas Alahapperuma: IMF
(www.factcheck.lk , 2/17/2022)TRUE: It was in 1950 that we entered into an agreement with the IMF to obtain its membership. As a member country, from 1960 until now, we have carried out certain transactions with the IMF on 16 occasions. I recall that ... -
Emergency Regulations: Security or Suppression?
(Colombo: Veritè Research, 4/6/2019)The entity contains writeups in all three languages and images of newspaper excerpts on the press coverage of emergency regulations imposed by the government. It also includes infographics in all three languages on the ... -
Eran Wickramaratne - Ministry of Defence Expenditure
(www.factcheck.lk, 2024-01-26)TRUE: When considering the Ministry of Defence, we spent 7% of the total budget for 2022 on it [Ministry of Defence] ... 60% of that goes to pay wages…Sri Lanka is one out of ten countries that has the greatest number of ... -
Eran Wickramaratne - Passport Ranking
(www.factcheck.lk, 2024-02-22)PARTLY TRUE: [The] Sri Lankan passport [is] …97th among global passports…What does it mean? It means that…you have access to 40 countries without a visa. Sri Lanka has very little access to other countries to get a visa ...