Veteran Tamil political leader Somasundaram Senathirajah popularly known as “Maavai” Senathirajah breathed his last on 29 ...

Godfrey Goonetilleke is one of the outstanding personalities in the public life of Ceylon/Sri Lanka in the latter half of the ...

Sirimavo Bandaranaike became the world’s first woman Prime Minister creating a world record. She began her parliamentary career with a seat in the Senate entering the House of Representatives later.

President Dissanayake sat across the table from President Xi, looked him in the eye, and in his second reference within seconds (he’d got it right in his first) called the People’s Republic of China ...

President Anura Kumara Dissanayake speaking at a public gathering in Kalutara on Sunday outlined the social and economic ...

Rohana Wijeweera, the leader of the JVP, had led a rather amateur uprising as a young man in 1971 against the Sirimavo Bandaranaike government. Wijeweera had been to the Patrice Lumumba University ...

The role of the Governor-General The results of the general elections called by Prime Minister Sirimavo Bandaranaike in 1965 were inconclusive. The SLFP-led front had not obtained an outright majority ...

However in 1971, he left the SLFP following differences of opinion with Prime Minister Sirimavo Bandaranaike. By late 1980s escalating death threats forced Gunasekara and his family to move abroad.

The JVP had in 1971 launched an armed insurrection when the United Front Government of Prime Minister Sirimavo Bandaranaike was in power. It was cruelly and brutally crushed with the aid of several ...

In the case of the first strategy, it was derailed by a complex political trajectory culminating in the wave of popular anger and frustration directed towards the government led by Sirimavo ...