Sources: Reuters
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 Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake's National People's Power coalition wins a supermajority in the snap election for the 17th Parliament of Sri Lanka. 2024-11-15
Former president Gotabaya Rajapaksa returns to Colombo, Sri Lanka, after seven weeks of exile. 2022-09-2
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 postpones, for a second time, the election from June 20 to August 5 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. 2020-06-10
Sri Lanka ends the state of emergency declared on March 6, 2018. 2018-03-18
The new Sri Lankan government announces that it will investigate allegations of a coup attempt by Mahinda Rajapaksa, in a bid to retain power after being defeated at the polls. 2015-01-11
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
Sri Lanka lifts a ban on a United Nations war crimes panel visiting the country. 2010-12-19
Sri Lankan police file a new case against Sarath Fonseka accusing him of employing military deserters. 2010-07-14