Sources: Xinhua
A nationwide blackout occurs in Sri Lanka. Energy Minister Kumara Jayakody says a monkey triggered the mass power outage after "coming into contact" with a grid transformer at a substation near Colombo. 2025-02-9
The Sri Lanka Navy rescues 102 Rohingya refugees, including 25 children, that were found adrift on a fishing trawler and takes them to Trincomalee, Sri Lanka. 2024-12-20
Sri Lankans vote in a snap election for the 225 members of the 17th Parliament of Sri Lanka. 2024-11-14
Police in Sri Lanka announce the arrests of 14,766 people during a week-long military-backed crackdown, leading to the seizure of nearly 440 kg of narcotics. 2023-12-24
Sri Lanka announces a week-long holiday amid fuel and food shortages caused by a worsening economic crisis. 2022-07-4
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 community case of the highly transmissible Lineage B.1.617 Delta variant in five patients. 2021-06-17
Sri Lanka's Civil Aviation Authority bans all flights to and from the United Kingdom beginning on December 23 to prevent a new strain of SARS-CoV-2 from spreading to the country. 2020-12-22
Sri Lanka ends the state of emergency declared on March 6, 2018. 2018-03-18
Sri Lanka announces that a United Nations panel investigating human rights abuses will not be allowed to enter the country. 2010-06-24