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.

Harini Amarasuriya, on September 24 took oath as Sri Lanka's new Prime Minister. The 54-year-old National People's Power (NPP) leader became the first woman leader since Sirimavo Bandaranaike in ...

Sirimavo Bandaranaike was elected the modern world's first female head of government in 1960 when she became prime minister of Sri Lanka, or Ceylon as it was known then. She entered politics after ...

NEW DELHI: Sri Lanka welcomed its 16th Prime Minister on Tuesday, Harini Amarasuriya, an academic-turned-politician who became the first woman to hold the position since Sirimavo Bandaranaike in 2000.

We left for New York on September. 26, 1976 This was the day, that the Prime Minister’s husband, Prime Minister SWRD Bandaranaike succumbed to his injuries from an assassin’s bullet. She had attended ...

“Sirimavo was the first in a list which carries the names of other women Prime Ministers such as Indira Gandhi and Margaret ... The book, which is a collection of articles about the late Mrs.