Sources: Reuters
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 rate reaches a record 54.6% amid a steep economic crisis and a default of the country's debt. 2022-07-1
Sri Lanka defaults on its debt for the first time in the country's history as it struggles with its worst financial crisis in more than 70 years. 2022-05-19
Sri Lanka reports a record for the second consecutive day of 4,355 new cases of COVID-19, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 394,355. 2021-08-23
Sri Lanka reports a record 46 deaths from COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, thereby bringing the nationwide death toll to 1,178. 2021-05-22
Sri Lankan Member of Parliament and former industry minister Rishad Bathiudeen is arrested, along with his brother, under the Prevention of Terrorism Act for having connections with the perpetrators of the 2019 attack. 2021-04-24
Sri Lankan voters head to the polls to elect a new president. Although 35 candidates are running, the main frontrunners are former Defense Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa of the right-wing Sri Lanka People's Front and current Minister of Housing and Construction Sajith Premadasa of the centre-right United National Party. 2019-11-16
Sri Lanka asks the United Nations not to publish a report on alleged war crimes. 2011-04-21
306 former Tamil Tiger combatants are to be released from rehabilitation in Sri Lanka. 2010-10-23
Hawaii's Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument, the habitat of the endangered Hawaiian Monk seal and rare birds, and Sri Lanka's central highlands are added. 2010-08-1