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One person is killed and 20 others are injured when a bus overturns in Pallai, Northern Province, Sri Lanka.
2022-12-22

The International Monetary Fund provisionally approves a US$2.9 billion bailout for Sri Lanka.
2022-09-1

Rajapaksa subsequently flees the country on a military aircraft to the Maldives, formally ending his rule of Sri Lanka. His brother, former finance minister Basil Rajapaksa, also flees the country.
2022-07-12

Sri Lanka announces that it will require a proof of COVID-19 vaccination certificate for entry into public places beginning on January 1 in an attempt to reduce the number of COVID-19 cases.
2021-12-19

Sri Lanka holds parliamentary elections after the parliament was dissolved by president Gotabaya Rajapaksa in March. Originally scheduled to be held in April, the election was postponed twice due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
2020-08-5

A new species of giant tarantula, "Poecilotheria rajaei", is discovered in Sri Lanka.
2013-04-4

Sri Lanka orders 161 foreign clerics from the Tablighi Jamaat movement to leave the country for breaking the terms of their tourist visas.
2012-01-22

A ship carrying Tamil asylum seekers who are travelling from Sri Lanka nears Canada.
2010-08-12

In its annual report, Amnesty International says human rights abuses and repression increased in Iran and China last year, the African Union refused to cooperate with the International Criminal Court after it indicted Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir for war crimes in Darfur, the United Nations’ Human Rights Council took little action while Sri Lanka’s army and Tamil militants both committed potential war crimes, and Israel and the militant group Hamas did not follow up on reports that accused both sides of human rights abuses during the Gaza War.
2010-05-27

Sri Lanka's governing coalition wins a majority in the country's 2010 parliamentary election.
2010-04-9