News: Sri Lanka

We have started to collect the most important news related to Sri Lanka in November 2005. By default, most recent news are listed first.

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• April 2nd 2019 – August 17th 2016
• August 9th 2016 – May 27th 2015
• May 23rd 2015 – January 9th 2015
• January 8th 2015 – July 23rd 2014
• July 20th 2014 – May 20th 2014
• May 20th 2014 – November 17th 2013
• November 16th 2013 – September 11th 2013
• September 4th 2013 – March 19th 2013
• March 17th 2013 – November 13th 2012
• November 13th 2012 – August 21st 2012
• August 19th 2012 – April 3rd 2012
• March 30th 2012 – November 29th 2011
• November 29th 2011 – July 21st 2011
• July 21st 2011 – June 7th 2011
• June 7th 2011 – April 17th 2011
• April 14th 2011 – January 24th 2011
• January 24th 2011 – November 12th 2010
• November 11th 2010 – August 16th 2010
• August 15th 2010 – June 9th 2010
• June 9th 2010 – March 17th 2010
• March 16th 2010 – January 13th 2010
• January 13th 2010 – November 13th 2009
• November 12th 2009 – August 30th 2009
• August 26th 2009 – June 9th 2009
• June 8th 2009 – May 16th 2009
• May 16th 2009 – April 22nd 2009
• April 22nd 2009 – March 6th 2009
• March 6th 2009 – February 3rd 2009
• February 3rd 2009 – December 21st 2008
• December 18th 2008 – September 17th 2008
• September 16th 2008 – June 3rd 2008
• May 31st 2008 – February 29th 2008
• February 26th 2008 – January 1st 2008
• December 27th 2007 – November 2nd 2007
• November 1st 2007 – June 9th 2007
• June 8th 2007 – April 2nd 2007
• April 1st 2007 – January 19th 2007
• January 11th 2007 – October 20th 2006
• October 19th 2006 – August 15th 2006
• August 15th 2006 – July 3rd 2006
• June 29th 2006 – May 12th 2006
• May 12th 2006 – February 24th 2006
• February 22nd 2006 – December 16th 2005
• December 14th 2005 – November 12th 2005

Sri Lanka: news

Sex claims hit S Lanka women cricket

Saturday, May 23rd 2015, 13:13

Members of Sri Lanka's women's cricket team were forced to perform sexual favours to keep their places in the team, the sports ministry says.
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Fury over Sri Lanka rape and murder

Wednesday, May 20th 2015, 18:32

Protests take place across northern Sri Lanka by crowds angry at the rape and murder a week ago of a teenage schoolgirl.
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Sri Lanka shift on war anniversary

Tuesday, May 19th 2015, 19:45

Sri Lanka's president vows to seek reconciliation as Tamils are allowed to commemorate their dead on the sixth anniversary of the end of the civil war.
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Sri Lanka first to protect mangroves

Tuesday, May 12th 2015, 7:45

Sri Lanka becomes the first nation to comprehensively protect all of its mangrove forests, using a model that conservationists hope other nations will adopt.
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Sri Lanka president's powers curbed

Tuesday, April 28th 2015, 23:09

Sri Lanka's parliament votes to curb the power of the president and restore a two-term limit for incumbents.
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Sri Lanka ex-minister arrested

Wednesday, April 22nd 2015, 17:34

Basil Rajapaksa, the younger brother of Sri Lanka's former President Mahinda Rajapaksa, is arrested on corruption charges.
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Pakistan 'to host' Zimbabwe tour

Tuesday, April 21st 2015, 11:41
related countries: Pakistan, Zimbabwe

Pakistan are set to host top-level cricket for the first time since the 2009 terrorist attack on the Sri Lanka team bus.
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Sri Lankan Airlines 'corrupt'

Saturday, April 4th 2015, 16:39

Sri Lankan government launches an investigation into the country's national airline over allegations of corruption running into billions of dollars.
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Sri Lanka president's brother killed

Saturday, March 28th 2015, 5:26

The youngest brother of Sri Lankan president Maithripala Sirisena dies after being attacked with an axe.
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South Africa ease into semi-finals

Wednesday, March 18th 2015, 10:09
related countries: South Africa
related places: Sydney

South Africa thrash Sri Lanka by nine wickets in Sydney to cruise into the semi-finals of the World Cup.
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World's worst team closer to Russia

Tuesday, March 17th 2015, 14:28
related countries: Bhutan, Russia

Bhutan, the world's lowest ranked side, upset Sri Lanka to progress to the next round of the Asian World Cup qualifiers.
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Derbyshire sign Sri Lanka's Dilshan

Tuesday, March 17th 2015, 6:42

Derbyshire sign veteran Sri Lanka batsman Tillakaratne Dilshan for two spells with the club in the 2015 season.
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Modi makes Sri Lanka friendship plea

Friday, March 13th 2015, 17:24
related countries: India
related places: Colombo

PM Narendra Modi says India and Sri Lanka must act like good neighbours, during the first official visit to Colombo by an Indian leader for 28 years.
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VIDEO: Sri Lanka on new journey, says leader

Thursday, March 12th 2015, 18:12

Sri Lanka hopes to set up a domestic inquiry within a month into atrocities from the civil war, President Maithripala Sirisena has told the BBC.
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Sri Lanka pledges war crimes inquiry

Thursday, March 12th 2015, 10:56

Sri Lanka's president tells the BBC a domestic war crimes probe will be set up within a month, but the UN will not be involved.
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Sangakkara confirms ODI retirement

Wednesday, March 11th 2015, 14:01

Sri Lanka's record-breaking batsman Kumar Sangakkara will not go back on his decision to retire from ODI cricket.
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Travel ban for Sri Lanka ex-official

Monday, March 9th 2015, 16:37

A Sri Lankan court issues a travel ban on Gotabhaya Rajapaksa, the former president's brother, as a boatload of weapons is investigated.
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Maxwell hits ton in Australia win

Sunday, March 8th 2015, 14:50
related countries: Australia

Glenn Maxwell hits the second-fastest century in World Cup history as Australia beat Sri Lanka by 64 runs to reach the last eight.
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Sri Lanka suffer double injury blow

Friday, March 6th 2015, 9:40

Sri Lanka batsman Dimuth Karunaratne is out of the World Cup after breaking a finger during fielding practice.
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Sri Lanka thump England in World Cup

Sunday, March 1st 2015, 12:54
related countries: United Kingdom

England slip to a third crushing defeat in four World Cup games as Sri Lanka chase 310 to win by nine wickets.
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Morgan blames bowlers after defeat

Sunday, March 1st 2015, 8:22
related countries: United Kingdom

England captain Eoin Morgan criticises his bowlers after the nine-wicket humbling by Sri Lanka at the World Cup.
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Sri Lanka thrash wasteful Bangladesh

Thursday, February 26th 2015, 11:16
related countries: Bangladesh

Tillakaratne Dilshan and Kumar Sangakkara score hundreds as Sri Lanka beat Bangladesh by 92 runs in their World Cup game in Melbourne.
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VIDEO: Man survives fall off 'World's End'

Sunday, February 22nd 2015, 10:25
related countries: Netherlands

Dutch honeymooner Mamitho Lendas becomes the first person to survive a fall from Sri Lanka's 4,000ft so-called World's End cliff.
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Sri Lanka avoid Afghanistan shock

Sunday, February 22nd 2015, 5:56
related countries: Afghanistan

Mahela Jayawardene's century helps Sri Lanka avoid a shock defeat by Afghanistan in Pool A of the World Cup.
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Sri Lanka war crimes report delayed

Tuesday, February 17th 2015, 8:12

A long-awaited report into alleged atrocities committed in the final stage of Sri Lanka's civil war has been delayed until September, the UN says.
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Sri Lanka leader in key India visit

Monday, February 16th 2015, 11:31
related countries: China, India
related places: Colombo

Sri Lanka's new president signs agreements with the India's leader in a bid to mend ties hit by China's growing influence on Colombo.
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NZ win World Cup opener v Sri Lanka

Saturday, February 14th 2015, 6:55
related countries: New Zealand

Corey Anderson hits 75 as New Zealand beat Sri Lanka by 98 runs in the opening match of the 2015 World Cup.
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Sri Lanka urges UN war report delay

Thursday, February 12th 2015, 9:36

Sri Lanka's new government wants the UN to delay releasing its report into war crimes committed during the 26-year long civil war.
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Tamil becomes Sri Lanka's top judge

Friday, January 30th 2015, 19:16

Sri Lanka's president appoints a Tamil judge as the new chief justice - the first member of the country's minority community to hold the post in decades.
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Sri Lanka reinstates chief justice

Wednesday, January 28th 2015, 12:37

Sri Lanka's new president reinstates Chief Justice Shirani Bandaranayake two years after she was controversially sacked by his predecessor.
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Asylum group 'legally held at sea'

Wednesday, January 28th 2015, 5:14
related countries: Australia

Australia's month-long detention of 157 Sri Lankan asylum seekers at sea last year was legal, the High Court rules.
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New Zealand wrap up Sri Lanka series

Sunday, January 25th 2015, 9:53
related countries: New Zealand

New Zealand win the one-day series against Sri Lanka with a match still to play after going 4-1 up with a 120-run victory.
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Sri Lanka seizes state vehicle fleet

Friday, January 23rd 2015, 14:54

Sri Lankan police say they have discovered dozens of luxury vehicles used by the regime of toppled former President Mahinda Rajapaksa.
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Sri Lanka rehabilitates top general

Wednesday, January 21st 2015, 18:22

The new Sri Lankan government rehabilitates war-time army chief Sarath Fonseka, who was jailed and deprived of his rights by the former regime.
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Huge crowds for Sri Lanka papal Mass

Wednesday, January 14th 2015, 15:07
related places: Colombo

Huge crowds watch Pope Francis celebrate Mass in the Sri Lankan capital Colombo, at which he canonises the nation's first saint.
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Pope Francis urges Sri Lanka 'truth'

Tuesday, January 13th 2015, 16:41

Pope Francis calls for the 'pursuit of truth' in Sri Lanka, as he visits a country still tackling the legacy of a 26-year civil war.
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VIDEO: Pope Francis arrives in Sri Lanka

Tuesday, January 13th 2015, 5:42

Pope Francis has arrived in Sri Lanka at the start of a six-day Asian visit.
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In pictures: A century of cricket

Sunday, January 11th 2015, 21:51
related places: Asgiriya

Celebrating 100 years of cricket at Sri Lanka's Asgiriya
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Sri Lanka to investigate 'coup plot'

Sunday, January 11th 2015, 17:29

Sri Lanka says it will investigate what it says was a coup attempt by deposed President Mahinda Rajapaksa before he lost elections on Friday.
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Defeated SL leader 'sought army help'

Sunday, January 11th 2015, 6:43

Mahinda Rajapaksa tried to deploy the army when he realised that he had lost Sri Lankan elections, a spokesman for the new government alleges.
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VIDEO: SL leader's press freedom promise

Sunday, January 11th 2015, 3:00

The new Sri Lankan administration promises to ensure press freedom and invites political dissidents to return home.
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Sri Lanka's Rajapaksa in poll defeat

Friday, January 9th 2015, 16:07

Mahinda Rajapaksa is defeated in Sri Lanka's presidential election by a challenger from his inner circle, ending almost a decade in power.
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Sri Lanka's life after Rajapaksa

Friday, January 9th 2015, 14:50

What Rajapaksa's defeat might mean for Sri Lanka
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VIDEO: Sri Lanka leader admits defeat

Friday, January 9th 2015, 6:21

Sri Lanka's long-time leader Mahinda Rajapaksa has admitted defeat in the presidential election, his office says.
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