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 ...

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

Mr Anura Bandaranaike, an Honours graduate in History of the University of London, was a formidable and prestigious leader who engaged himself in gentlemanly politics. He was never accused of any ...

Anura Bandaranaike was an exemplary and honourable leader. Bandaranaike, an Honours graduate in History from the University of London, was a formidable… ...

Sri Lanka has a notable legacy of female leadership. In 1960, when the country was known as Ceylon, Sirimavo Bandaranaike was elected the world’s first woman prime minister.

Who is Dissanayake? Anura Dissanayake is a life-long JVP member. He was attracted to the JVP in the midst of its virulent anti-Indian, Sinhala chauvinist campaign against the 1987 Indo-Lanka Accord.

While commenting on the presidential election results, former President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga attributed the rise of Dissanayake, son of a humble rural family to the highest political ...

Anura Kumara Dissanayake has dissolved Sri Lanka's parliament and called for an election on 14 November. The country's new leader, fresh off a weekend presidential victory, hopes this election ...

‘Only the beginning’: Sri Lankans hope for deep changes under new president Marxist-leaning Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s call for unity amid ethnic divisions and pro-people economic reforms ...

President Anura Kumara Dissanayake has dissolved the present government and called for snap elections in Sri Lanka. The move could help him consolidate power in the parliament.

Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake Appoints Harini Amarasuriya As 16th Prime Minister, 3rd Woman To Hold The Post Amarasuriya of the National People's Power (NPP) party is an academic ...

Colombo: Sri Lanka's new President, Anura Kumara Dissanayake, named Harini Amarasuriya as the new Prime Minister of the Indian Ocean island nation on Tuesday. Dissanayake was elected president in ...