Verité in the News

    Change? Let’s start from the Cabinet
    by |30 July 2020|Verité in the News
    Taken from - Daily Mirror As Sri Lanka heads for parliamentary elections on August 5, the final stage of electoral campaigns are now coming to an end.  A total of 7452 candidates will contest in the 2020 parliamentary election, with...
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    Fighting corruption still a voter priority: Survey
    by |20 July 2020|Verité in the News
    Taken from - DailyFT Image courtesy - DailyFT By Uditha Jayasinghe Fighting corruption remains a high priority among voters despite the change of Government and no party making it their main campaign platform ahead of the Parliamentary Election, a well-known...
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    Invest in skills today to thrive tomorrow
    by |17 July 2020|Verité in the News
    Taken from - DailyFT Image courtesy - DailyFT By Zahra Ansary July 15th is World Youth Skills Day, one of the UN International days of observance which was initiated by none than Sri Lanka. Established in November 2014, the representative...
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    Verité Research launches first phase of a new public finance platform
    by |11 June 2020|Verité in the News
    Taken from - DailyFT Verité Research has launched the first phase of publicfinance.lk, an online platform that will eventually be a one-stop-shop for all public finance related information in Sri Lanka. The beta version features initial insights and analyses on...
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    SL’s Budget openness: Improved but still below global benchmark
    by |09 June 2020|Verité in the News
    Taken from - AdaDerana Sri Lanka has been placed at 54th position among 117 nations in terms of budget transparency and accountability, according to the Open Budget Survey (OBS) 2019, which was released recently. The OBS, conducted by International Budget...
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    SL Budget openness improves, but still below global benchmark
    by |09 June 2020|Verité in the News
    Taken from - DailyFT Sri Lanka’s Budget openness has improved past the global average but is still third in South Asia and well below the level that indicates enough material is being published to support informed public debate, Verité Research...
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    Sri Lanka budget transparency below minimum on international survey: think tank
    by |09 June 2020|Verité in the News
    Taken from - Economynext Sri Lanka’s budget transparency is below minimum standard on a international comparison set by a Open Budget Survey, which measures 117 countries, though some improvements had been made over the years, a think tank has said....
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    ලිංගික අපරාධ: ‘දූෂණයෙන්’ නොනැවතී ‘කාන්තාවන්ට නිගරු කරන පිරිමින්ගේ සමාජයක්’
    by |04 June 2020|Verité in the News
    පළවූයේ - බීබීසී සිංහල සේවය ඡුායාරූප අනුග‍්‍රහය - බීබීසී සිංහල සේවය, එතික්ස් අයි, Getty Images කැමැත්තෙන් තොරව බලය යොදා ලිංගිකව එක්වීමේ ක්‍රියාව හැඳින්වීම සඳහා සිංහල භාෂාව තුළ බහුලව යොදා ගනු ලබන්නේ 'දූෂණය' යන වචනයයි. සිංහල පුවත්පත්, රූපවාහිනී, ගුවන් විදුලි නාලිකා...
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    කොරෝනා වසංගතය සමාජ ව්‍යසනයක් කිරීමට දායක වන තක්කඩි මාධ්‍යකරණය හෙළා දකිමු!
    by |15 May 2020|Verité in the News
    මුල් ලිපිය: රාවය සම්පාදනය: නාලක ගුණවර්ධන ටී බී ඉලංගරත්න සූරීන්ගේ විලම්බීත, තිලක, තිලක හා තිලකා කියන තුන් ඈඳුතු නවකථා මාලාවේ දෙවැනි පොතේ අප කියවන්නේ රජයේ ලිපිකරු තිලකගේ තරුණ විය ගැන. තිලකගේ බෝඩින් සගයන් අතර පත්තර වාර්තාකරුවකු ද සිටියා. මට මතක...
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    Govt. exceeds borrowing limits by Rs 120 bn
    by |15 May 2020|Verité in the News
    Taken from - news1st COLOMBO (News1st) : The government has exceeded its legal borrowing limits for the first quarter of 2020 by Rs 120 billion, a Colombo-based think tank has said. The Vote on Account, passed in October last year,...
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