Sources: Reuters
Nineteen people are killed by Cyclone Fengal in India and Sri Lanka. 2024-12-1
The Dutch government announces plans to repatriate 478 colonial-era artifacts to Indonesia and Sri Lanka. 2023-07-6
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 lifts a nearly six-week lockdown to contain the spread of COVID-19 but continues to maintain a night curfew and a ban on public gatherings and parties as the number of cases declines. 2021-10-1
Sri Lanka suspends state festivals and public gatherings until September 1 and restricts the number of people to 25 for funerals and 150 for weddings amid an increase in the number of COVID-19 cases and deaths. 2021-08-6
Sri Lankan authorities increase the COVID-19-related curfew zones to 56 police divisions to control the spread of the virus through community-level transmission. 2020-10-25
A landfill slide in Colombo, Sri Lanka, kills at least 16 people. 2017-04-14
New Zealand refuses entry to Sri Lankan asylum seekers detained in Indonesia who claimed to be heading there. 2011-07-12
Sri Lanka lifts a ban on a United Nations war crimes panel visiting the country. 2010-12-19