Sri Lankan civil war; mass evacuation in Haicheng earthquake; McCarthy gives first anti-communist speech; Nepal abolishes ...

Supreme Court rules that former president abused her executive powers to facilitate a corrupt deal The Supreme Court on Wednesday, upholding a fundamental rights petition filed by two retired public ...

Former President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga has stated that she was unaware of the ‘ostensible purpose’ for which the land now occupied by the Waters Edge Golf Club at Battaramulla was taken ...

Bandaranaike took place at Galle Face Green yesterday. Former Presidents Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga, Maithripala Sirisena, former Ministers and Parliamentarians were present. Former President ...

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.

The PA, led by President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga, came to power in late 1994 on a human rights platform that promised a negotiated settlement of Sri Lanka's twelve-year civil war with ...