Sources: Xinhua
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 International Monetary Fund provisionally approves a US$2.9 billion bailout for Sri Lanka. 2022-09-1
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Sri Lanka's inflation continues to increase and reaches nearly 60% as the country's economic crisis worsens. 2022-07-5
Sri Lanka's inflation rate reaches a record 54.6% amid a steep economic crisis and a default of the country's debt. 2022-07-1
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Sri Lankan Member of Parliament and former industry minister Rishad Bathiudeen is arrested, along with his brother, under the Prevention of Terrorism Act for having connections with the perpetrators of the 2019 attack. 2021-04-24
The BBC says that without explaining why, the Sri Lankan government has banned its news crews from traveling to the north for public hearings of a commission investigating the civil war. 2010-11-11
Campaigning ahead of Sri Lanka's parliamentary election comes to an end. 2010-04-6
The offices of defeated Sri Lankan presidential candidate Sarath Fonseka are raided by police. 2010-01-29