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Newly-elected Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake dissolves the Parliament and calls for snap elections on November 14.
2024-09-24

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 announces that it will require a proof of COVID-19 vaccination certificate for entry into public places beginning on January 1 in an attempt to reduce the number of COVID-19 cases.
2021-12-19

President Gotabaya Rajapaksa imposes a ten-day nationwide lockdown in Sri Lanka in an attempt to reduce the spread of COVID-19.
2021-08-20

Sri Lanka receives its first shipment of 264,000 doses of the Oxford–AstraZeneca vaccine supplied through the COVAX vaccine-sharing initiative.
2021-03-7

Sri Lanka postpones, for a second time, the election from June 20 to August 5 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
2020-06-10

A landfill slide in Colombo, Sri Lanka, kills at least 16 people.
2017-04-14

Sri Lanka arrests 37 Chinese fisherman for illegally fishing in Sri Lankan waters.
2012-08-6

The Committee to Protect Journalists claims that there have been 251 murders of journalists in 13 countries where the murderer has remained unpunished in the past decade with Iraq, Somalia, the Philippines and Sri Lanka being considered the worst environments for journalists.
2011-06-1

The Sri Lankan army releases over 700 former Tamil Tiger fighters after a rehabilitation program.
2010-01-9