Entity

Sri Lanka

A topic on our watch list — we track its coverage across 16 coverage verticals, including Aviation, Pubmed Targeted and Microplastics.

As of 29 Oct 2026Last evidence 30 Oct 2026

What is happening now

  • Two more Sri Lankan Tamils deported from Tiruchi Special Camp

    Reported claim · first reported 26 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 1 separate publisher

  • British Airways launches Colombo flights as winter 2026 schedule brings new routes and extra capacity

    Reported claim · first reported 26 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

  • Sri Lanka chasing 387 against England after Duckett century: men’s cricket tri-series one-day international – live

    Reported claim · first reported 25 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 1 separate publisher

  • Iranian sailors seek urgent medical help as tankers remain stranded off Sri Lanka

    Reported claim · first reported 25 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 4 separate publishers

All 4 events and claims involving Sri Lanka

What changed

  • Attention Rising: 14 mentions on 29 Oct 2026, against 12 on 8 Oct 2026 (+17%).
  • State No change in coverage state or wire tier recorded since 17 Oct 2026.
  • Claims No claim first reported since 28 Oct 2026.

How well we know this

535 documents · 120 publishers · 5% contain a typed assertion · last evidence 30 Oct 2026

  • Gap: assertion coverage 0.045: about 96% of mentions carry no typed assertion
  • Gap: 3 receipts withheld: no source link (the same rule the topic record applies)

In this snapshot’s daily coverage:

Reported alongside Sri Lanka

Names most often reported alongside it; bigger circles and heavier lines mean more shared documents. A dashed circle has no page of its own yet.

IndiaPakistanBangladeshAfricaAustraliaChinaFranceIran
  • India · 281 shared documents
  • Pakistan · 146 shared documents
  • Bangladesh · 142 shared documents
  • Africa · 135 shared documents
  • Australia · 113 shared documents
  • China · 113 shared documents
  • France · 103 shared documents
  • Asian · 88 shared documents · no page of its own yet
  • Iran · 86 shared documents
  • Iceland · 77 shared documents · no page of its own yet

Story momentum

Rising

The word compares 14 mentions on 29 Oct 2026 with 12 on 8 Oct 2026 (+17%); a change of less than 8% either way reads Steady.

Daily mentions +133% from 1 Oct 2026 to 29 Oct 2026, between 6 and 28 a day

How often tracked coverage mentions Sri Lanka, day by day.

Market price, cited

Not priced yet

No open prediction market prices a question materially about Sri Lanka yet. Ask about Sri Lanka

No market price on file: no prediction market prices a question about this name yet

Coverage volume and market price are separate measures.

For developers

This page is also an object: GET https://sigb.ai/api/v1/node/e/f42286ab068d4c45de432dbc returns the same record as sb.node.v1. Or call the get_entity MCP tool at https://sigb.ai/api/mcp with name sri lanka.

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The figures on this page, as data. The tool returns the full entity record.

Events involving Sri Lanka

Most-reported first, then newest. Registered events come from the event record; reported events are groups of claims about one occurrence. Claims are grouped when they were first reported within 2 days of each other and either name at least 2 of the same people, places or things besides this one, or share at least 25% of their wording. Each claim keeps its own record.

  • Two more Sri Lankan Tamils deported from Tiruchi Special Camp

    Reported claim · first reported 26 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 1 separate publisher

    single source

  • British Airways launches Colombo flights as winter 2026 schedule brings new routes and extra capacity

    Reported claim · first reported 26 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    could not check

  • Sri Lanka chasing 387 against England after Duckett century: men’s cricket tri-series one-day international – live

    Reported claim · first reported 25 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 1 separate publisher

    single source

  • Iranian sailors seek urgent medical help as tankers remain stranded off Sri Lanka

    Reported claim · first reported 25 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 4 separate publishers

    corroborated

Walk the record from Sri Lanka

Open where it comes from, follow a claim or a related name, and use the trail to come back. Every step says what it is, how it stands and when. Machines read the same record.

Sri Lanka

Entity.

Evidence
535 documents · 120 separate publishers · a mention shows the name is in use, not that any claim about it is true
Standing
A name from our starting list; its record is kept up to date automatically from coverage
Time
first seen 3 Sept 2026, last seen 30 Oct 2026
Measured
5% of mentions say something specific about it; the rest only name it
As of
29 Oct 2026
14 links from here

Who it moves with: the 10 names are in the map above.

What is claimed about it (4)

  • Corroborated: Reported by three or more sources that did not copy each other.
  • Single source: Reported by one source so far.
  • Could not check: We could not count this claim's sources, so we do not say how well it is supported.

Situations it is named in (0)

none on file at this cutoff

For machines: this record as JSON

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What the coverage says

Recent reporting that names Sri Lanka, newest first. Open any row to follow it to the original article.

1 more headline counted but not shown: no source link on file

Evidence tiers: primary source = an official public record · attributed = a named outlet, receipt linked · lead = observed, not yet receipted.

What it connects to

Related records.

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Recorded history

No change in coverage state or wire tier recorded since 17 Oct 2026.

Ask about Sri LankaWatch Sri Lanka

Story momentum counts mentions in tracked coverage. Prices are the market’s own, cited with the venue. Informational only, not advice. As of 29 Oct 2026.