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Rajapaksa subsequently flees the country on a military aircraft to the Maldives, formally ending his rule of Sri Lanka. His brother, former finance minister Basil Rajapaksa, also flees the country.
2022-07-12

According to the UN's World Food Programme, nearly six million people in Sri Lanka are currently suffering from food insecurity caused by the worst economic crisis that the country has experienced since 1948.
2022-07-7

Sri Lanka reports a record for the second consecutive day of 4,355 new cases of COVID-19, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 394,355.
2021-08-23

Sri Lanka reports a record 2,672 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, thereby bringing the cumulative number of patients to 125,906.
2021-05-9

Sri Lanka imposes a nationwide 10-day state of emergency, the first since 2011, in an effort to calm communal tensions. The previous day, a Sinhalese Buddhist mob attack on Sri Lankan Muslim shops in the region of Kandy, Central Province, left a Muslim person dead.
2018-03-6

More than 150 people are feared dead by two landslides triggered by more than three days of heavy rain in central Sri Lanka.
2016-05-18

After Sri Lanka, Liang Guanglie leaves India for Laos. It has been the first visit to India of a Chinese Minister of Defence in eight years.
2012-09-6

The United Nations Human Rights Council urges Sri Lanka to "credibly investigate" possible war crimes committed during the Sri Lankan Civil War.
2012-03-22

More than 76,000 people are left marooned following floods in Sri Lanka.
2010-12-7

Britain's High Commission in Colombo lifts travel advice restrictions on Sri Lanka for the first time in approximately 30 years.
2010-08-6