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රූමත් බව පුවතට අදාළ වන්නේ කෙසේද?
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2020-04-28)
An article published by Divaina on April 28, 2020 unnecessarily mentioned that the woman concerned was "attractive".
නිශේධනාත්මක නාමකරණ ?
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2020-07-06)
Articles published in July negatively labeled drug addicts by using the term "kuddan"
ඍණාත්මක නාමකරණ
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2020-08-20)
Several articles from August, 2020 on Aruna, Mawbima and Dinamina reports use of term term “ගුරා" in the headline to refer to the offender which negatively highlight a specific profession.
Lakshman Kiriella: Bond scandal assets freeze
(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 ...
Harsha De silva: Government debt
(www.factcheck.lk, 10/1/2020)
TRUE: …the government made a hue and cry [those days] saying that the debt rose by Rs. 5,700 billion in five years, didn’t they? However, during their time, it has risen by [approximately] Rs. 1,000 billion in just four ...
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
Gotabaya Rajapaksa: GDP growth
(www.factcheck.lk, 7/2/2020)
PARTLY TRUE: Prior to 2015, the economic growth rate was between 7% and 8%, but by 2019, it fell below 2%.
- Gotabaya Rajapaksa, Divaina, 16 June 2020
Wigneswaran: Unemployment disparity
(www.factcheck.lk, 10/31/2020)
FALSE: “Unemployment in our war-affected areas have exceeded 10% while the national average proportion of unemployment is less than 6%.”
- C. V. Wigneswaran, Daily FT, 12 September 2020
Wimal Weerawansa: Net Export Earnings
(www.factcheck.lk, 7/27/2020)
FALSE: For the first time since the open economy was introduced in 1977 by J.R. Jayawardena, the country’s export earnings exceeded import expenditure. - Wimal Weerawansa, Mawbima,13/07/2020
Mahinda Rajapaksa: Electricity access
(www.factcheck.lk, 7/16/2020)
TRUE: We provided electricity to 99.9% of the country.
- Mahinda Rajapaksa, Divaina, 24 June 2020