Colombo, April 19:
The beleaguered Sri Lankan President, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, on Monday held out an olive branch to the opposition parties and people wanting him to quit for the economic mess he has allegedly created. But he firmly stated that...
Ever since Sri Lanka got into an unprecedented economic bind, and calls for the resignation of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa mounted, there has been a tendency to see a “Sri Lanka type of situation” emerging in other countries of South...
By P.K.Balachandran
The Rajapaksa regime in Sri Lanka, extremely hard-pressed though it economically and politically, might still survive thanks to disunity among the Opposition parties and the massive infusion of financial and material aid to the country from abroad. The...
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...
Sri Lankan Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa’s address to the nation over television on Monday is likely to bring political tempers down and motivate political parties in parliament to sink their differences and cooperate with the legitimately established government to...
By P.K.Balachandran
Those supporting defeated Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan say that the Supreme Court had violated Art 69 of the constitution by countermanding a decision of the Deputy Speaker of parliament to disallow a motion of no-confidence against the...
By P.K.Balachandran
Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan was ousted from power early on Sunday when his Pakistan-Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) government lost the No Confidence Motion (NCM) moved by the opposition led by the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and the Pakistan Peoples’...
The Lankan parliament took a back seat on matters connected to public finance for years
By P.K.Balachandran
The leader of the opposition United National Party (UNP) and former Sri Lankan Prime Minister, Ranil Wickremesinghe, told parliament on Friday that the House...
By P.K.Balachandran
MPs belonging to the breakaway group of the ruling Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP), the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) and the 11-party alliance, have jointly written to President Gotabaya Rajapaksa asking him to dismiss the present cabinet,...
By P.K.Balachandran
The Speaker of the Sri Lankan parliament,Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena, on Wednesday made a fervent appeal to MPs to stop giving priority to their political demands (chiefly the ouster of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa) and put their heads together to...
Colombo, April 6: The beleaguered Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa revoked the Public Emergency late on April 5, following the defection of 42 MPs from the ruling coalition which had reduced the government’s majority in parliament to two. The...
By P.K.Balachandran
In view of the growing strategic importance of South Asia for both the US and China, these powers have taken to aggressive or pro-active diplomacy to get governments in the region to toe their line. Recently, they have...
