Sources: Reuters
Sri Lankan public security minister Ananda Wijepala says that police and navy officers have been sent to the Maldives to cooperate with local authorities after the Maldivian military seized a Sri Lankan ship with over 300 kilograms of heroin on Friday. 2025-11-9
Sri Lankans vote in a snap election for the 225 members of the 17th Parliament of Sri Lanka. 2024-11-14
Ten people are killed and 30 others are injured when a bus falls off a bridge into a river in North Central Province, Sri Lanka. 2023-07-9
Seven people are killed and over 50 are injured in a collision between a bus carrying students and a van in Radella, near Nuwara Eliya, Sri Lanka. 2023-01-20
Sri Lanka reports a new single-day record of 384,763 vaccine doses administered. 2021-07-15
Sri Lanka receives 600,000 doses of the Sinopharm BBIBP-CorV vaccine from China. Vaccination of Chinese nationals could commence first as the Medicines Regulatory Authority says that the vaccination of Sri Lankans will begin after a study by a committee of experts. 2021-03-31
Sri Lanka's National Medicines Regulatory Authority approves the use of Russia's Sputnik V vaccine, becoming the second vaccine to be made available for the general public. 2021-03-4
Cyclone Ockhi hits southern India causing 13 deaths in Tamil Nadu and Kerala. The cyclone kills 15 people and displaces another 200,000 persons in Sri Lanka. 2017-12-2
Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi visits Sri Lanka's Jaffna District to hand over 27,000 homes to Tamil survivors of the Sri Lankan Civil War. 2015-03-14
New Zealand refuses entry to Sri Lankan asylum seekers detained in Indonesia who claimed to be heading there. 2011-07-12