The Saudi Development Fund completed the development of the Peradeniya-Badulla-Chenkaladi road project in the country for which it had sanctioned a $60 million loan, as well as a $28 million loan for the Wayamba University Township development project

The Vedda, an indigenous group in Sri Lanka, have been found to have a significant genetic link to the ethnic populations of India, according to scientists at the CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology and four other research institutes

Sri Lanka's "1990 Suwa Seriya" free ambulance service has been praised by the World Bank for saving countless lives by providing citizens with the highest level of pre-hospital care

In response to recent findings published in the British medical journal The Lancet regarding child malnutrition and underweight girls, Sri Lankan health authorities have rejected content referring to Sri Lanka's representation