Sources: Xinhua
At least twelve people, including four children, are killed and more than 250,000 people are evacuated due to flooding and landslides caused by Deep Depression BOB 08 in Sri Lanka. 2024-11-28
Sri Lanka reports its first two cases of mpox, but does not specify the clade the cases are from. 2024-08-22
Sri Lanka's inflation continues to increase and reaches nearly 60% as the country's economic crisis worsens. 2022-07-5
The Singaporean government bans all long-term pass holders and short-term visitors who have been in Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka in the last two weeks from entering or transiting through the country. It also tightens its social distancing rules in an attempt to reduce the spread of COVID-19. 2021-05-1
Sri Lanka receives its first shipment of 264,000 doses of the Oxford–AstraZeneca vaccine supplied through the COVAX vaccine-sharing initiative. 2021-03-7
ISIL claims responsibility for the bombings in Sri Lanka that took place on Easter Sunday. 2019-04-23
Two hundred thousand people flee the Sri Lankan capital Colombo as floods caused by several days of heavy rain worsen. 2016-05-20
Sri Lanka's former army chief Sarath Fonseka is freed from prison with a pardon from President Mahinda Rajapaksa. 2012-05-21
Sri Lanka asks the United Nations not to publish a report on alleged war crimes. 2011-04-21
Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa announces that Tamils will be given greater say in matters of governance, proposing power sharing agreements. 2010-01-12