Sources: Reuters
At least twelve people, including four children, are killed and more than 250,000 people are evacuated due to flooding and landslides caused by Deep Depression BOB 08 in Sri Lanka. 2024-11-28
A nationwide power outage occurs in Sri Lanka due to a system failure. 2023-12-9
Sri Lanka's efforts to restructure its debt run into difficulty when an ad hoc group of private creditors object that the official creditors and Sri Lanka itself are being insufficiently transparent about their talks. 2023-12-1
Sri Lanka begins administering the COVID-19 vaccine for children between the ages of 12 and 19 years old with special health needs and disabilities using the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine. 2021-09-24
Sri Lanka reports a new single-day record of 384,763 vaccine doses administered. 2021-07-15
Sri Lanka's GDP contracts 3.6% in 2020, its worst economic performance since gaining independence in 1948. 2021-04-30
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
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
Sri Lanka urges Saudi Arabia to investigate the case of a Sri Lankan maid who had nails and needles pushed into her by her employers as a "punishment". Doctors later remove 24 nails and needles from her body. 2010-08-27