Sources: BBC
A car veers off the track during the international Fox Hill Supercross motor race in Diyatalawa, Sri Lanka, and crashes into a group of spectators, killing seven people and injuring 21 others. 2024-04-21
A nationwide power outage occurs in Sri Lanka due to a system failure. 2023-12-9
Sri Lanka announces a week-long holiday amid fuel and food shortages caused by a worsening economic crisis. 2022-07-4
Sri Lanka reports a new single-day record of 384,763 vaccine doses administered. 2021-07-15
Sri Lanka imposes a night travel ban from 11:00 p.m. to 4:00 a.m. until May 31 in order to combat the rise of COVID-19 cases. 2021-05-12
Electrical blackouts in Sri Lanka began nationwide due to a transmission technical failure at the Kerawalapitiya Grid-Sub station. 2020-08-17
In order to make sea room for expanding berthing facilities in Trincomalee Harbour, the Sri Lankan navy raises the SS "Sagaing", a British passenger ship sunk when it was bombed in an April 1942 Japanese air strike during World War II. 2018-03-31
Voters in Sri Lanka go to the polls for local elections, with one person dying in clashes between supporters of rival parties in the Anuradhapura district. 2011-07-23
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon recalls his envoy and closes an office in Sri Lanka due to protests over a war crimes panel. 2010-07-8
Sri Lanka's President Mahinda Rajapakse and other prominent Sri Lankans protest international calls and the appointment of a United Nations panel to investigate war crimes allegedly committed during the country's civil war with the Tamil Tiger separatists. 2010-06-28