Sources: Xinhua
The Thai environment ministry repatriates a 29-year-old elephant it gifted to Sri Lanka in 2001 following allegations of mistreatment and neglect at a Buddhist temple in Colombo, Sri Lanka. 2023-07-2
Sri Lanka's inflation continues to increase and reaches nearly 60% as the country's economic crisis worsens. 2022-07-5
Fifty-one people are arrested by the Sri Lankan Navy while trying to emigrate to Australia by sea. Police said that undocumented immigration has increased because of Sri Lanka's economic crisis. 2022-07-3
Sri Lanka reports its first case of the 501.V2 variant, which originated in South Africa, in a person who travelled from Tanzania and is currently staying at a quarantine centre. 2021-03-12
Sri Lanka's National Medicines Regulatory Authority approves the use of Russia's Sputnik V vaccine, becoming the second vaccine to be made available for the general public. 2021-03-4
Sri Lanka reopens the island for tourism after closing it for nine months. 2020-12-28
The Sri Lankan government imposes a nationwide curfew to contain COVID-19. Mosques across the nation are closed. 2020-03-20
Floods in Sri Lanka and the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu cause over 70 deaths with the city of Chennai worst affected. 2015-11-16
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
Sri Lanka convicts ex-army chief Sarath Fonseka on charges of engaging in politics while on active service. 2010-08-13