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

Indian Tamil cinema icon Mohanlal Viswanathan — popularly known as Mohanlal or “Lalettan” — and acclaimed Malayalam actor Kunchacko Boban arrived at the Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA) on ...

Former President Maithripala Sirisena is reported to have requested Ms. Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga to take charge of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) and rebuild it. ..

357. A stock of 673 bottles of whisky valued at Rs.5.5 million, along with 75 kilograms of cardamom imported from India, was discovered abandoned on the first floor of the duty-free shopping complex ...

A special relief flight, UL 302, departed from Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA) to Medan International Airport in Sumatra, Indonesia, to transport 101 passengers and crew members from ...

Charlotte May Lee, 21, a former cabin attendant from south London, was arrested on 12 May at Bandaranaike airport, Colombo, after arriving on a flight from Bangkok.

When Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga was elected President with an unprecedented and unsurpassed 61%, all she had to do was either (a) implement devolution of power to the Provincial Councils ...

SriLankan Airlines, long a subject of national debate and a significant drain on public funds, appears to be charting a new course. In a move signaling a potential turnaround for the embattled ...

Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) MP Nalin Bandara has raised concerns over the condition of a newly leased aircraft by SriLankan Airlines, claiming that one of its windshield wipers was not functioning ...

The arrests of a number of Brits abroad in recent months has shone a spotlight on the worrying trend of criminal networks targeting ordinary UK citizens to act as drug mules.

An alarming explosion in the number of Brits arrested for drug smuggling abroad has raised fresh concerns about the growing use of UK citizens as international drug mules ...

Both her parents had been prime ministers of Sri Lanka: her mother, Sirimavoh Bandaranaike, was the world's first woman prime minister. At the time of Mrs Kumaratunga's election she said that politics ...