Sources: RTÉ
Sri Lankan customs officials arrest nine Chinese nationals at Bandaranaike International Airport in Colombo for attempting to smuggle communication equipment concealed on their bodies, which officials say is intended for use in internet fraud operations. 2026-04-16
More than 40 people are killed, and 21 others are missing after landslides caused by heavy rains hit Sri Lanka, mainly between Badulla and Nuwara Eliya. 2025-11-27
Former president Gotabaya Rajapaksa returns to Colombo, Sri Lanka, after seven weeks of exile. 2022-09-2
Several opposition politicians are arrested in Colombo, Sri Lanka, after demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, who said yesterday that the country is "bankrupt". 2022-07-6
Sri Lanka's Marine Environment Protection Authority announces that it will take legal action against the owners of the Singaporean container ship "X-Press Pearl" for the marine pollution caused by the ship's fire off the coast of Colombo on May 20. The authority reports that plastic granules from spilled cargo had been washing up on the Sri Lankan coast since May 27. 2021-05-30
Three women are killed in a stampede in Colombo, Sri Lanka, during an US$8 cash handout at a businessman's warehouse. 2020-05-21
A soldier is killed and another injured after a fire spread to an ammunition dump at the Salawa army camp near Sri Lanka's capital Colombo. Thousands of people in the area were evacuated. The fire is under control, according to a military spokesman. 2016-06-6
Sri Lanka marks the third anniversary of the end of its 26-year civil war with a large military parade in Colombo. 2012-05-19
Record rains cause flooding in Sri Lanka leaving 36,000 families in the western provinces homeless and leaving the Parliament of Sri Lanka in Colombo under four feet of water. 2010-11-11
Britain's High Commission in Colombo lifts travel advice restrictions on Sri Lanka for the first time in approximately 30 years. 2010-08-6