2000-10-11 04:00:00 PDT Bangalore, India-- Not long after Sirimavo Bandaranaike, the first woman in the world to serve as prime minister, rolled up to the polling booth in her wheelchair yesterday ...

Sirimavo Bandaranaike's party lost that election, but she was returned to parliament. She was then 72. Her children, in the meantime, had become important political figures within the Freedom Party.

Sirimavo Bandaranaike, who has died in Sri Lanka at the age of 84, became the world's first elected woman prime minister on 20 July 1960. Send us your tributes to Sirimavo Bandaranaike. She served for ...

To my surprise, Madam Sirimavo Bandaranaike, Chairperson of the BMNF and a keen supporter of BCIS, was present and actively engaged in the proceedings, adding even more significance to the event. It ...

Well before more familiar figures such as Britain's Margaret Thatcher or India's Indira Gandhi, Sri Lanka gave the world its first female prime minister in 1960, electing Sirimavo Bandaranaike to ...

On a green island set in a blue sea, Mrs. Sirimavo Bandaranaike, 44, the world’s first and only female Prime Minister, was plunged deep in political strife. In the seaport of Jaffna, an angry ...

241. 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 first was Sirimavo Bandaranaike of Sri Lanka (then Ceylon) in 1960, who rose to power after the assassination of her husband, serving as prime minister. Story continues below advertisement.

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

Overall, 60 UN member states (31%) have ever had a woman serve as head of government. The first was Sri Lanka, then called Ceylon, where Sirimavo Bandaranaike began her first term as prime minister in ...

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 ...