Sources: BBC
A car veers off the track during the international Fox Hill Supercross motor race in Diyatalawa, Sri Lanka, and crashes into a group of spectators, killing seven people and injuring 21 others. 2024-04-21
Pope Francis begins his first papal visit to the Democratic Republic of the Congo. He will also visit South Sudan on the same trip. 2023-01-31
Sri Lanka's inflation rate reaches a record 54.6% amid a steep economic crisis and a default of the country's debt. 2022-07-1
Sri Lanka reports a new single-day record of 384,763 vaccine doses administered. 2021-07-15
Sri Lanka approves the emergency use of the Pfizer–BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine as the country faces its third wave of the pandemic and the highest number of active cases since the pandemic began. The minister overseeing the situation says that Sri Lanka will try to secure five million doses of the vaccine as India has restricted the supply of the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine. 2021-05-8
Electrical blackouts in Sri Lanka began nationwide due to a transmission technical failure at the Kerawalapitiya Grid-Sub station. 2020-08-17
The Two Popes film is released on Netflix just before the holiday season. It has a limited theatrical release during November in the United States and United Kingdom. Jonathan Pryce as Pope Francis gives a dramatic interpretation of a series of conversations that took place between the liberal cardinal and the conservative incumbent Pope Benedict (played by Anthony Hopkins). 2019-12-20
A lunar eclipse is seen in Oceania, Asia, and North America, coinciding with a supermoon and blue moon. 2018-01-31
The Sri Lankan government says more than 210 former Tamil Tiger rebels have passed a university entrance exam, with 40 qualifying for entry; the Movement for the Release of Political Prisoners calls for the release of all political prisoners. 2010-12-26
Protesters try to enter the United Nations compound in Colombo, Sri Lanka, calling for the United Nations to abandon an inquiry into alleged human rights abuses in the final stages of the civil war between the government and Tamil rebels that ended last year. Staff are unable to leave until being assisted by Sri Lankan police. 2010-07-6