...Bandaranaike regained the office for a third time in 1994. But she retired in August to let her daughter, President Chandrika Kumaratunga, appoint a hard-liner to help with the government's 17-year fight against Tamil separatists ahead of the...

...traveling in a car when the blast occurred near Town Hall, about 1.5 miles from the residence of President Chandrika Kumaratunga. Kumaratunga, whose People's Alliance won Oct. 10 parliamentary elections, had planned to install the new...

...were being interrogated, according to a local police official who spoke on condition of anonymity. President Chandrika Kumaratunga appealed for calm, saying the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam were trying to ''inflame communal passions by...