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Lanka Truth
	Lanka Truth official logo
Type of site	Sri Lankan News Portal
Available in	Sinhala,English
Country of origin	Sri Lanka
URL	https://lankatruth.com/si/
Launched	June 2002

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Declined by Liance 4 months ago. Last edited by Liance 4 months ago. Reviewer: Inform author.

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Lanka Truth is the brand for online news in Sri Lanka. Its content is currently available in Sinhala and English.

In the highly competitive news publishing space, Lanka Truth has gained high reputation as most unbiased and comprehensive alternative news portal online.

History

In March 2002^[1], Winnie Hettigoda^[2] and handfull of enthusiast comes together to create a independent online News Portal for the Sri Lankan ever growing online audience.

There ara more than 37,000 news articles Archieve availble from 2011^[3] covering all aspects of Sri Lankan and International news

Lanka Truth new app wiil be soon available on all Android^[4], Apple^[5] devices.

Team

Current Lanka Truth team consist of independent and volunteer network of Sri Lankan indivisuals representatting each District in Sri Lanka who are very desciplined and trained officials and update Colombo^[6] Head Office on a daily basis providing stream of valuable latest news to the online audience.

References

^ "Webarchive from 2002". Webarchive.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
^ Hettigoda, Winnie. "LinkedIn Profile". LinkedIn.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
^ "Sinhala News Archive". Lanka Truth Sinhala News Archive from 2011.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
^ "Android", Wikipedia, 2021-01-03, retrieved 2021-01-11
^ "Apple Inc.", Wikipedia, 2021-01-10, retrieved 2021-01-11
^ "Colombo District", Wikipedia, 2020-12-02, retrieved 2021-01-11

External links

Category:Sri Lankan news websites Category:Sri Lankan websites

[1] "Webarchive from 2002". Webarchive.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)

[2] Hettigoda, Winnie. "LinkedIn Profile". LinkedIn.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)

[3] "Sinhala News Archive". Lanka Truth Sinhala News Archive from 2011.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)

[4] "Android", Wikipedia, 2021-01-03, retrieved 2021-01-11

[5] "Apple Inc.", Wikipedia, 2021-01-10, retrieved 2021-01-11

[6] "Colombo District", Wikipedia, 2020-12-02, retrieved 2021-01-11

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