Sources: BBC
Sri Lanka receives 500,000 doses of the Oxford–AstraZeneca vaccine from India. 2021-02-25
Sri Lanka begins shipping back 242 containers of hazardous waste to the United Kingdom, after a Sri Lankan court ruled two weeks ago that their importation violated local and international shipping regulations. 2020-10-31
For the first time in 43 years, Sri Lanka hires executioners to reinstate the death penalty. 2019-06-28
A landfill slide in Colombo, Sri Lanka, kills at least 16 people. 2017-04-14
Demonstrations against sexual violence after Delhi gang rape spread across Asia and are now happening in Nepal, Sri Lanka, Pakistan and Bangladesh. 2013-01-4
Sri Lanka orders media outlets to get prior approval before sending mobile phone alerts about the military or police. 2012-03-12
Sri Lanka urges Saudi Arabia to investigate the case of a Sri Lankan maid who had nails and needles pushed into her by her employers as a "punishment". Doctors later remove 24 nails and needles from her body. 2010-08-27
A Sri Lankan government commission set up to look into the last years of the Sri Lankan Civil War holds a meeting in Vavuniya on the north of the island. 2010-08-14
Sri Lanka announces that a United Nations panel investigating human rights abuses will not be allowed to enter the country. 2010-06-24
The offices of defeated Sri Lankan presidential candidate Sarath Fonseka are raided by police. 2010-01-29