Sources: Xinhua
Former Sri Lankan president Ranil Wickremesinghe is granted bail after being arrested on allegations of misusing public funds, becoming the first former president of the country to face arrest. 2025-08-26
Sri Lankan voters head to the polls to elect a new president between 39 candidates. The main frontrunners are Anura Kumara Dissanayake of the socialist National People's Power and current Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa of the progressive United People's Power Party. 2024-09-21
The Dutch government announces plans to repatriate 478 colonial-era artifacts to Indonesia and Sri Lanka. 2023-07-6
Former president Gotabaya Rajapaksa returns to Colombo, Sri Lanka, after seven weeks of exile. 2022-09-2
Sri Lanka defaults on its debt for the first time in the country's history as it struggles with its worst financial crisis in more than 70 years. 2022-05-19
Sri Lanka announces that beginning on September 15, citizens will be required to show a vaccine card that states that they have received two vaccine doses in order to enter public places and travel between provinces. 2021-08-13
Voters in Sri Lanka go to the polls for a general election with the ruling United National Party holding on to power. 2015-08-17
Burmese hard-line monk, Ashin Wirathu, and a hardline group in Sri Lanka, Bodu Bala Sena, say they would work together to rally other Buddhist groups and defend their faith against militant Islamists. 2014-09-30
Sri Lankan Chief Justice Shirani Bandaranayake is removed from office by President Mahinda Rajapaksa after being impeached. 2013-01-13
The Commonwealth Writers prizes are handed out at Hay: Shehan Karunatilaka from Sri Lanka wins the £10,000 Commonwealth Book Prize for his debut novel "Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew", while Emma Martin from New Zealand wins the £5,000 Commonwealth Short Story Prize for "Two Girls in a Boat". 2012-06-8