2000-10-11 04:00:00 PDT Bangalore, India-- Not long after Sirimavo Bandaranaike, the first woman in the world to serve as prime minister, rolled up to the polling booth in her wheelchair yesterday ...

Sirimavo Bandaranaike, who 40 years ago became the world's first female prime minister, died of a heart attack Tuesday after voting in Sri Lanka's parliamentary elections.

During her first ten months in office as the world’s first woman Prime Minister, Mrs. Sirimavo Bandaranaike, 45, has a record of more trouble than accomplishment. She has alarmed foreign ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- Sirimavo Bandaranaike, the world's first female prime minister and the matriarch of Sri Lankan politics, died Oct. 10 of a heart attack minutes after voting in the country's ...

5. The Embassy of Sri Lanka in Ankara screened the documentary Our Mother, Grandmother, Prime Minister: Sirimavo, a powerful tribute to Sirimavo Bandaranaike, the world’s first elected female Head of ...