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Sri Lanka begins its COVID-19 vaccination rollout for children between the ages of 12 and 15 years using the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine.
2022-01-7

Sri Lanka reports a record 46 deaths from COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, thereby bringing the nationwide death toll to 1,178.
2021-05-22

Sri Lanka ends its state of emergency, four months after the Easter bombings.
2019-08-23

Sri Lanka ends the state of emergency declared on March 6, 2018.
2018-03-18

The death is announced of slain LTTE leader Velupillai Prabhakaran's mother Vallipuram Parvathi.
2011-02-20

Record rains cause flooding in Sri Lanka leaving 36,000 families in the western provinces homeless and leaving the Parliament of Sri Lanka in Colombo under four feet of water.
2010-11-11

Protesters try to enter the United Nations compound in Colombo, Sri Lanka, calling for the United Nations to abandon an inquiry into alleged human rights abuses in the final stages of the civil war between the government and Tamil rebels that ended last year. Staff are unable to leave until being assisted by Sri Lankan police.
2010-07-6

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

The Sri Lankan army releases over 700 former Tamil Tiger fighters after a rehabilitation program.
2010-01-9