The crisis in Sri Lanka’s public health services has brought home the fact there is no solution, to even the most basic ...

Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga – who celebrates her 80th birthday on 29 June 2025 – made history in November 1994 when she was elected as Sri Lanka’s first female executive president. Kumaratunga ...

Here is a torrid tale of how England has had the monopoly over making mammoties in Sri Lanka. Even though, if you stop even now, or stopped even then (in 1974, when this anecdote unreels) any English ...

We’ll see how Sussan Ley goes over time trying to fix the paucity of women serving in, or even voting for, her party ...

Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga – who celebrates her 80th birthday on 29 June 2025 – made history in November 1994 when ...

Cinnamon Lakeside Colombo has announced its outstanding performance at the 22nd edition of the Culinary Art Food Expo (CAFE) ...

After the Bay of Pigs invasion, some American journalists were distrustful of nations that had links with the Soviet Union or China. Ceylon and Nepal qualified.

Sirimavo Bandaranaike Vidyalaya Colombo produced a brilliant all-round performance to win both the Under-20 and Under-17 girls’ titles at the Western Province Throwball Championship 2025, held at the ...

Women's Day 2025: Sirimavo Bandaranaike, who was born on April 17, 1916, in Ratnapura, Sri Lanka, became the first woman prime minister of Sri Lanka and the world. Her party won the election in 1960.

Working with S W R D Bandaranaike in the 1956-1959 period had given me the opportunity of appreciating the many-faceted character of Sirimavo Bandaranaike. She was a devoted mother to her three ...

Sirimavo Bandaranaike, the widow of the former Prime Minister of Sri Lanka, became the world’s first female prime minister, and also took the defence, foreign affairs, planning and economy ...

While the United States aches for a woman to be head of state, Sri Lanka had the world’s first female prime minister, Sirimavo Bandaranaike, back in 1960. Women in the country, nevertheless ...