Sources: Xinhua
Two tourists die in Colombo, Sri Lanka, when their hostel room is fumigated with a pesticide for bedbugs. 2025-02-7
Sri Lankan authorities ban all public gatherings and protests under the instruction of the Director General of Health Services due to an increase in the number of COVID-19 cases. 2021-07-7
Cyclone Ockhi hits southern India causing 13 deaths in Tamil Nadu and Kerala. The cyclone kills 15 people and displaces another 200,000 persons in Sri Lanka. 2017-12-2
A journalist for the British newspaper "Financial Times" is killed by a crocodile in Sri Lanka. 2017-09-15
A landfill slide in Colombo, Sri Lanka, kills at least 16 people. 2017-04-14
A mudslide in south-central Sri Lanka kills more than 100 people. 2014-10-29
Several people are injured in Sri Lanka's largest city Colombo when Buddhist monks lead hundreds of people to attack a Muslim owned clothing warehouse. 2013-03-29
The United Nations Human Rights Council urges Sri Lanka to "credibly investigate" possible war crimes committed during the Sri Lankan Civil War. 2012-03-22
Thousands of Sri Lankans protest against a United Nations report calling for both sides involved in the civil war to be investigated for possible war crimes. 2011-05-2
Sri Lanka asks the United Nations not to publish a report on alleged war crimes. 2011-04-21