Premadasa, 57, studied at the London School of Economics and entered politics after his father, Ranasinghe Premadasa, was killed in a suicide bombing during a May Day rally in 1993. He entered ...

More than three decades after Sri Lanka's former president Ranasinghe Premadasa was assassinated ... 1993 during a May Day rally in the capital Colombo (archived link). "Babu" refers to ...

Today (June23) is the 100th birth anniversary of former Prime Minister and President Ranasinghe Premadasa who was born on this day in 1924 at Dias Place ... In 1965, he was first appointed ...

The election of the JVP/NPP leader as the executive president of Sri Lanka was no doubt momentous, perhaps, second only to the election of Ranasinghe Premadasa to the same coveted position. Though it ...

It is the first time in Sri Lanka's ... to leave behind the suffering of the crisis. Premadasa, 57, entered politics after his father, president Ranasinghe Premadasa, was killed in a suicide ...

Sajith Premadasa, the leader of Sri Lanka's main opposition party, is a frontrunner in Saturday's presidential election and a win will hand him the top job more than 30 years after his father was ...