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For the first time in Sri Lanka's history, election officials begin a second round of vote counting. In the first round, National People's Power candidate Anura Kumara Dissanayake led with 42.31% of the vote counted, while opposition leader and United People's Power candidate Sajith Premadasa took second place with 32.76%. Incumbent President Ranil Wickremesinghe came in third place with 17% of the vote. Following the counting of second and third preferences, Dissanayake is declared president-elect by the election commission.
2024-09-22

The Thai environment ministry repatriates a 29-year-old elephant it gifted to Sri Lanka in 2001 following allegations of mistreatment and neglect at a Buddhist temple in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
2023-07-2

The Supreme Court of Sri Lanka sentences former member of parliament Ranjan Ramanayake, who is affiliated with the opposition United National Party, to a four-year "rigorous imprisonment" over his remarks claiming that most judges in the country were "corrupt".
2021-01-12

The U.S. State Department sanctions Sri Lankan Army Commander Shavendra Silva for alleged human rights violations during the final phase of the Sri Lankan Civil War.
2020-02-14

Cyclone Ockhi hits southern India causing 13 deaths in Tamil Nadu and Kerala. The cyclone kills 15 people and displaces another 200,000 persons in Sri Lanka.
2017-12-2

A new species of giant tarantula, "Poecilotheria rajaei", is discovered in Sri Lanka.
2013-04-4

Repeat polls for Sri Lanka's April parliamentary election are held in Nawalapitiya and Trincomalee where ballots were annulled due to violence.
2010-04-20

Sri Lanka's governing coalition wins a majority in the country's 2010 parliamentary election.
2010-04-9

Sri Lankans vote in the country's 2010 parliamentary election.
2010-04-8