Sources: BBC
Police in Sri Lanka announce the arrests of 14,766 people during a week-long military-backed crackdown, leading to the seizure of nearly 440 kg of narcotics. 2023-12-24
Six people are dead and ten others are missing after the ferry they were travelling on capsizes in Kinniya, Sri Lanka. 2021-11-23
English cricketer and all-rounder Moeen Ali, who tested positive for COVID-19 ten days ago, confirmed that he was infected with a new variant of SARS-CoV-2, which makes this the first case of the UK variant in Sri Lanka. 2021-01-13
The U.S. Department of Justice charges three Sri Lankan nationals with "providing material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization" in the Islamic State-claimed bombings. 2021-01-8
Sri Lankan authorities increase the COVID-19-related curfew zones to 56 police divisions to control the spread of the virus through community-level transmission. 2020-10-25
Sri Lanka ends the state of emergency declared on March 6, 2018. 2018-03-18
Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi visits Sri Lanka's Jaffna District to hand over 27,000 homes to Tamil survivors of the Sri Lankan Civil War. 2015-03-14
Sarath Fonseka, Sri Lanka's jailed former army chief, loses an appeal to retain his parliamentary seat. 2011-01-25
The United Nations seeks emergency aid for Sri Lanka: as many as 390,000 people are made homeless and thousands of houses are destroyed in the disaster there. 2011-01-15
306 former Tamil Tiger combatants are to be released from rehabilitation in Sri Lanka. 2010-10-23