Sources: Reuters
The toll from the landslides caused by heavy rains in Sri Lanka increases to 132 people killed, 191 missing, 44,000 more displaced, and 15,000 houses destroyed. 2025-11-29
Thirteen people are injured when an elephant chases a crowd attending a Hindu religious festival in Kataragama, Sri Lanka. 2024-07-7
Due to an increase in the number of COVID-19 infections, Sri Lanka closes all swimming pools, shopping malls, spas, arenas, gyms, and playgrounds, restricts travel to one person from each household for essential reasons only, and also bans carnivals, beach parties and musical events. 2021-08-18
The MV "X-Press Pearl", a container ship sailing with a Singaporean flag and carrying cosmetics and chemicals, including 25 tonnes of nitric acid, catches fire off the coast of Sri Lanka after an explosion was detected onboard. Rescuers evacuated all crew from the ship and reported that two people were injured. 2021-05-25
In order to make sea room for expanding berthing facilities in Trincomalee Harbour, the Sri Lankan navy raises the SS "Sagaing", a British passenger ship sunk when it was bombed in an April 1942 Japanese air strike during World War II. 2018-03-31
WT1190F, an artificial satellite orbiting the Earth since before June 2009, impacts the Earth south of Sri Lanka. 2015-11-13
The Commonwealth Writers prizes are handed out at Hay: Shehan Karunatilaka from Sri Lanka wins the £10,000 Commonwealth Book Prize for his debut novel "Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew", while Emma Martin from New Zealand wins the £5,000 Commonwealth Short Story Prize for "Two Girls in a Boat". 2012-06-8
A ship carrying Tamil asylum seekers who are travelling from Sri Lanka nears Canada. 2010-08-12
Sri Lankans vote in the country's 2010 parliamentary election. 2010-04-8
Protests continue in Sri Lanka after the arrest of opposition candidate Sarath Fonseka. 2010-02-11