Sources: Xinhua
Six people are killed and six others are injured when a Sri Lanka Air Force Bell 212 helicopter crashes into the Maduru Oya river in Sri Lanka. 2025-05-9
Sri Lankans vote in a snap election for the 225 members of the 17th Parliament of Sri Lanka. 2024-11-14
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
Forensic anthropologists from the University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, report that more than 90 sets of human remains have been discovered near the town of Mannar. The mass grave is situated in an area that saw heavy fighting during the country's civil war. 2018-08-27
A landfill slide in Colombo, Sri Lanka, kills at least 16 people. 2017-04-14
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
More than one million people are affected by flooding in Sri Lanka, with 21 dead and 270,000 made homeless. 2011-01-13
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
A government-appointed commission in Sri Lanka investigating the country's civil war opens. 2010-08-11
Sri Lanka's former army chief Sarath Fonseka requests his freedom from "illegal detention" in his first speech in parliament. 2010-04-22