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2023 government expenditure surge matches the increase in interest payments
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2024-06-26)Government spending increased by 20% in 2023, reaching LKR 5,357 billion, up from LKR 4,473 billion in 2022. This LKR 884 billion increase was primarily due to an LKR 890 billion rise in interest payments. In contrast, ... -
Inside the Chamber - Voting in Parliament
(Manthri.lk, 2024-03-13)This infographic provides insights into the voting process in parliament. It explains the importance of a quorum, the various voting methods, and the Speaker's role in announcing the results. Voting can be conducted by ... -
Contribution in Parliament - March 2024: 78 MPs with no contribution
(Manthri.lk, 2024-05-17)In March 2024, 147 MPs contributed to parliamentary proceedings at least once, while 78 MPs did not contribute at all during the 7 sittings held. The following compilation of infographics highlights the list of MPs with ... -
Blacklisting corrupt contractors: SL falls behind other South Asian countries
(Colombo: Express Newspapers (Ceylon), 2024-02-19)Virakesari page 9 (19 February 2024) feature of the Blacklisting press release sent out in November 2023. The corresponding research titled “Backwards in Blacklisting: Gaps in Sri Lanka’s Procurement Framework Enable ... -
Sri Lanka has highest electricity charges in South Asia
(Colombo: Express Newspapers (Ceylon) Limited, 2024-02-09)Virakesari (9 February 2024) page 2 features the electricity rates of Sri Lanka being the highest charges in South Asia, press release which was sent out in February 2024. This feature has been published in Tamil. This ... -
වැරැදි පාරේ රස සොයාගෙන ගිය නැටුම් ගුරුවරයා වසර 20ක් හිරේ: බාලවයස් අපයෝජනයක් පිළිබඳ අනුමත කළ හැකි වාර්තාකරණයක් ද?
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2024-07-17)On the 17th of July 2024, Divaina Sinhala newspaper violated media ethics by simplifying the sexual crime, as 'rasa soyagena giya' (රස සොයාගෙන ගිය) committed towards an underaged male student by his dancing teacher. -
'ගණිකා නිවාස' වෙනුවට 'ලිංගික සේවා සපයන ස්ථාන?': ලිංගික ශ්‍රමිකයින් කොන් කිරීමට ලක් කරන යෙදුම් භාවිතයෙන් ඉවත් කරමු!
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2024-07-20)On the 19th of July 2024, Dinamina and Mawbima Sinhala newspapers referred to a sex establishment as “Ganika Niwasa” (ගණිකා නිවාස) thereby violating the media ethics. -
ගුරා ද? ගුරුවරයා ද?
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2024-07-16)On July 15, 2024, Lankadeepa and Dinamina Sinhala newspapers reported the arrest of a dance teacher accused of sexually abusing female students by referring to the teacher with the derogatory term “Gura” (ගුරා). -
චීන ජාතිකයා සහ චීනා: ඔබ තෝරා ගන්නා සිරස්තලය කුමක්ද?
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2024-07-16)The foreign news of the arrest of a Chinese national who tried to carry more than a hundred snakes at a border checkpoint was reported by the Sinhala newspapers Lankadeepa on July 15, 2024 and Aruna on July 12, 2024 using ... -
වැලිපැන්න ප්‍රදේශයේ සිසුවියක් දිවි තොර කර ගැනීමේ පුවත සිංහල පුවත්පත් ආවරණය කළ ආකාරය
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2024-07-15)This infographic shows how a suicide incident of a schoolgirl in Welipanna area was reported in the Sinhala newspapers published on July 15, 2024. Without following media ethical guidelines, Ada, Aruna and Dinamina have ... -
"වින කළ" යන්න තුළින් ලිංගික අපයෝජනයක් සිදු වූ බවක් ඔබට හැ‍ඟේද?
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2024-07-15)On July 11, 2024, the Aruna Sinhala newspaper trivialized the news of the sexual abuse of two 8-year-old lay monks by the chief monk of the temple. Dinamina Sinhala newspaper published the same news using the term ‘ලිංගික ... -
MPs Attendance in Parliament - June 2024
(Manthri.lk, 2024-07-05)This infographic shows the attendance of MPs in the parliament during the 7 sittings in June 2024. The infographic highlights 2 main bills debated in the parliament during 7 sittings in June 2024 as well it shows the 4 MPs ... -
Political Career of R. Sampanthan
(Manthri.lk, 2024-07-01)These infographics gives personal details (such as date of birth, educational qualifications, profession, family connections to politics) of R. Sampanthan and details of his political career i.e. start date of political ... -
Political Career of H. Nandasena
(Manthri.lk, 2024-04-04)These infographics gives personal details (such as date of birth, educational qualifications, profession, family connections to politics) of H. Nandasena and details of his political career i.e. start date of political ... -
Contribution in Parliament - January 2024: 83 MPs with no contribution
(Manthri.lk, 2024-04-01)In January 2024, 142 MPs contributed to parliamentary proceedings at least once, while 83 MPs did not contribute at all during the 6 sittings held. The following compilation of infographics highlights the list of MPs with ... -
MPs Attendance in Parliament - May 2024
(Manthri.lk, 2024-06-12)This infographic shows the attendance of MPs in the parliament during the 7 sittings in May 2024. The infographic shows the 16 MPs with low attendance during these 7 sittings. There were 5 MPs those who did not attend a ... -
Proposals of an Administrative Reforms Committee (ARC) in 1988
(Manthri.lk, 2024-03-11)This infographic provides the information about the Administrative Reforms Committee (ARC) which tried to streamline the structure of ministries in 1988 that gets split up and combined multiple times with little rational. ... -
A kitchen with many chefs
(Manthri.lk, 2024-01-05)This analytical infographic provides information about how the composition of ministries in Sri Lanka has changed from 2010 to 2023. According to the data on this infographic the composition of ministries was changed 111 ... -
දූෂිත කොන්ත්‍රාත්කරුවන් "බ්ලැක් ලිස්ට්" නොකරන එකම රට ශ්‍රී ලංකාව වෙරිටේ රිසර්ච් හෙළි කරයි = Sri Lanka is the only country not to "blacklist" corrupt contractors: Verité Research reveals
(Colombo: Wijeya Newspapers, 2024-02-19)Lankadeepa page 5 feature of the Blacklisting press release sent out in November 2023. The corresponding research titled “Backwards in Blacklisting: Gaps in Sri Lanka’s Procurement Framework Enable Corruption” was conducted ... -
දකුණු ආසියාවේ ලොකුම ලයිට් බිල ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ ගෙවල්වලට = Sri Lanka has highest electricity charges in South Asia
(Colombo: Upali Newspapers, 2024-02-09)Divaina (9 February 2024) front page and page 2 features the electricity rates of Sri Lanka being the highest charges in South Asia, press release that was sent out in February 2024. This feature has been published in ...