Court returns 13 elephants in state custody to alleged traffickers who captured them or people who bought from them.
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Snap parliamentary election was delayed previously because of lockdown, but opposition urges holding them soon.
All schools and universities in the country are now closed as it braces for a rise in coronavirus cases.
Health officials fight increase in dengue cases in Sri Lanka with method successfully used in Australia.
Sri Lanka withdraws from a UN resolution that would have allowed war crimes during the country’s civil war to be investigated.
Elephants and people are in an increasingly dangerous confrontation.
Coordinated suicide bombers struck 3 churches and 3 hotels, killing more than 250 people and leaving hundreds injured.
The police said the State Intelligence Service received repeated warnings of possible attacks and detailed a series of delays by all security agencies to act.
Al Jazeera takes a look at how victims are being remembered 10 years after the end of Sri Lanka’s Civil War.
Victims of civil war seek accountability from both Sri Lankan troops and Tamil Tiger rebels for crimes against civilians.
