The Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe told parliament on Tuesday, that Sri Lanka has been badly mishandling relations with its tried and trusted friends in the international sphere.
“India, China and Japan are leading the list of countries that...
Indian strategic experts worry that increased Chinese presence in the Bay of Bengal is aimed at strategically “encircling” India. But Nilanthi Samaranayake of the Virginia-based Center for Naval Analysis (CAN) says that the aims of the two rivals are...
Beijing, China: Mushrooming outbreaks of the highly contagious Delta variant prompted China and Australia to impose stricter Covid-19 restrictions on Saturday as the WHO urged the world to quickly contain the mutation before it turns into something deadlier and...
The Sri Lankan political system’s inability to come to a consensus on what should be done to lift the country from the economic morass it is in now, appears to be at the root of the problemfacing the island...
Given the fact that the Sri Lankan Presidential election is to be held with a number of candidates in the fray, the procedure could be complicated with the possibility of the counting going through three phases.
The process is set...
Although not a single Briton or any government property was attacked, the British rulers of Ceylon mistook the Muslim-Buddhist riots of 1915 for a serious bid to overthrow them.
However, the thoughtless imposition of a particularly draconian version of Martial...
News 18, 22 November 2023
By going public about the number of Indian military personnel in his country and also disclosing that the two nations had signed more than 100 agreements under the previous government, the newly-minted Maldives President, Dr...
N Sathiya Moorthy
The five-state assembly elections are seen as a now-or-never, no-holds battle for the Congress, points out N Sathiya Moorthy.
The Election Commission has issued show-cause notice to former Congress president Rahul Gandhi for calling Prime Minister Narendra D Modi, a panauti (ill-omen via-a-vis...
By P.K.Balachandran
The Sri Lankan President, Gotabaya Rajapaksa,in collusion with the 11-party “Independent Group” in parliament, has found a constitutional way to dislodge Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa from the Prime Minister ship and form an “all-party government.”
The 11-party group’s “enemy...
The killing of Canadian Sikh separatist Hardeep Singh Nijjar in Canada allegedly by Indian intelligence, is seen in India as stemming from the “Khalistan” issue and in Canada as a national sovereignty and freedom of expression issue.
Both these standpoints...
While developed countries in the West have knit their diverse peoples into a nation on the basis of “citizenship” and not ethnicity or religion, in many parts of the developing world, countries are increasingly using religion and ethnicity to...
Colombo, June 9: After months of economic distress, peaceful expressions of public anger punctuated by mindless violence, political conflicts and institutional instability, Sri Lanka now appears to be on the way to restoring normalcy.
Some recent developments indicate that the...
