Bandaranaike International Airport, the country ’ s only international airport, is located in Katunayaka, 35 km ( 22 mi ) north of Colombo.

* The IATA airport code for Bandaranaike International Airport, Colombo – Sri Lanka's only international airport

In July 2001, the LTTE carried out a devastating suicide attack on Bandaranaike International Airport, destroying eight of the air force's planes ( 2 IAI Kfirs, 1 Mil-17, 1 Mil-24, 3 K-8 trainers, 1 MiG-27 ) and four Sri Lankan Airlines planes ( 2 Airbus A330s, 1 A340 and 1 A320 ), dampening the economy and causing tourism, a vital foreign exchange earner for the government, to plummet.

On June 9, 2009, Rae was denied entry by Sri Lankan Immigration officials at the Bandaranaike International Airport, Colombo, Sri Lanka on grounds that he was " a threat to national security and sympathetic to the Tamil Tigers rebel group ".

* May 3 – A bomb believed to have been planted by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam detonates aboard Air Lanka Flight 512, the Lockheed L-1011-385 TriStar City of Colombo, while it is on the ground at Bandaranaike International Airport in Katunayake, Sri Lanka, with 148 people on board.

** Bandaranaike International Airport (" CMB ")

It is on the Katunayake-Colombo road and a few miles from the Bandaranaike International Airport.

It is the site of Bandaranaike International Airport, the primary international air gateway to Sri Lanka.

Bandaranaike International Airport at Katunayake

Katunayake is the site of the primary airport in the country, Bandaranaike International Airport.

First Sir Arthur C Clarke Memorial Oration, talk delivered at Bandaranaike Memorial International Conference Hall, Arthur C Clarke Institute for Modern Technologies ( ACCIMT ), Colombo, 19 March 2009, Published by Publications and Public Relations Unit, ISRO HQ, 2009

* SriLankan Airlines ( UL ) uses Bandaranaike International Airport ( CMB ).

Indian frigates patrolled the coast and Indian troops guarded Bandaranaike International Airport at Katunayaka, while Indian Air Force helicopters assisted the counteroffensive.

In July 2001, 14 Black Tigers attacked Bandaranaike International Airport, causing an estimated of $ 350 million USD worth of damage, mainly to military and civilian aircraft.

After completion, it would be one of two international airports in Sri Lanka, after the Bandaranaike International Airport situated at Colombo.

** Colombo – Bandaranaike International Airport

** Colombo – Bandaranaike International Airport

* 2001 – Bandaranaike Airport attack is carried out by 14 Tamil Tiger commandos, all died in this attack.

Bandaranaike is sworn in as the Prime Minister.

* 1959 – Solomon Bandaranaike, Prime Minister of Sri Lanka is mortally wounded by a Buddhist monk, Talduwe Somarama, and dies the next day.

Bandaranaike is assassinated.

** Ceylon becomes the republic of Sri Lanka under prime minister Sirimavo Bandaranaike, when its new constitution is ratified.

Anura Bandaranaike, a minister of the ruling party said Norway's role is highly questionable.

Hailing from one of the most prestigious aristocratic families that has a long history in the socio-political arena of the country, her father, S. W. R. D Bandaranaike was a government minister at the time of her birth and later became Prime Minister.

In 1951, Bandaranaike led his Sinhala Maha Sabha faction out of the UNP and established the Sri Lanka Freedom Party ( SLFP ).

They served as a key members of the Cabinet of SWRD Bandaranaike.

He served as Governor-General during the tenure of different governments headed by the SLFP led regime of Sirimavo Bandaranaike and the UNP led regime of Dudley Senanayake.

Since 1978, Thondaman has served as a Cabinet minister under Presidents J. R. Jayawardhane, R. Premadasa and since 1995 under president Chandrika Bandaranaike.

He was born in Kandy as the eldest son of a family of seven children to Andrew Dissanayake who served as an MP and a deputy minister in the Sri Lanka Freedom Party government of S. W. R. D Bandaranaike.

After his death, he served Vijayananda Dahanayake and Sirimavo Bandaranaike.

Bandaranaike was assassinated by an extremist Buddhist monk in 1959.

SLFP was founded by S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike, who was the Cabinet minister of Local Administration, before he left the UNP in July 1951.

He was found to be involved in the assassination of Lalith Athulathmudali by a presidential commission appointed by President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga.

Bandaranaike was a socialist who continued her husband's policies of nationalizing key sectors of the economy, such as banking and insurance, and also nationalizing all schools then owned by the Roman Catholic Church in 1961.

It contributed seminally to the manifestoes put forward by Mrs Bandaranaike and Gamini Dissanayake as Presidential candidates in 1988 and in 1994.

Bandaranaike ; January 8, 1899 – September 26, 1959 ) was the fourth Prime Minister of Ceylon ( later Sri Lanka ), serving from 1956 until his assassination by a Buddhist monk in 1959.

It was founded by S. W. R. D Bandaranaike in 1951 and, since then, has been one of the two largest parties in the Sri Lankan political arena.

This brought about the downfall of the SLFP government led by Sirimavo Bandaranaike.

Although there had been some warning that an attack was imminent, Bandaranaike was caught off guard by the scale of the uprising and was forced to call on India to provide basic security functions.

The Sinhala Maha Sabha ( Sinhala: ස ිං හල මහ ා සභ ා) was a political party in Sri Lanka ( Ceylon at the time ) founded by Solomon West Ridgeway Dias Bandaranaike in 1934-35, in order to promote Sinhalese culture and community interests.

" Journalists in Ceylon, however, suggested a different motive: to kill a fellow Buddhist was a sin, which he had committed by killing Bandaranaike, but by converting he would spare the gaolers and hangmen from committing the same sin.

* A. C. Alles, Famous Criminal Cases of Sri Lanka, Volume III: The Assassination of Prime Minister SWRD Bandaranaike ( Dec-1979 ): Published by the author.