Colombo, April 4: By getting the Speaker to nullify the No-Confidence Motion (NCM) in the National Assembly (parliament) on the false ground that the NCM was tabled at the behest of the US, and getting the President to dissolve...
By P K Balachandran
Held against the background of the Ukrainian crisis, the EU-China virtual summit held on April 1, ended in a stalemate as expected. While the EU wanted discussion on the Russian aggression against Ukraine, China demanded...
India and China are giving beleaguered Sri Lanka a helping hand with a total of USD 4.5 billion in emergency aid to make up for the unprecedented foreign exchange shortage the island nation is facing.
At the least, Sri Lankans...
Colombo, March 25:
India appears to have changed its stance on the Russo-Ukrainian war. Going by Foreign Minister S. Jaishankar’s statement in the Upper House of the Indian parliament on March 24, India has dropped its insistence on taking into...
The on-going Ukrainian crisis, unlike other crises in the recent past, has divided the world into two distinct and sharply antagonist blocs in a throwback to the Cold War era.
But in contrast to the Cold War days, there is...
Inaugurating the off-line International Relations Programs of the Bandaranaike Centre for International Studies (BCIS) here on Monday, the Indian High Commissioner Gopal Baglay stated that the pervasive cultural affinity between India and Sri Lanka gives their relationship an exceptionally...
The Late Mrs. Sirima Bandaranaike has the distinction of being the world’s first woman Prime Minister. But she had another distinction which she had earned by dint of her own efforts. And that was deftly managing relations with mutually...
Righteous indignation at Russian President Vladimir Putin’s brazen invasion of Ukraine without adequately giving diplomacy a chance to resolve Russia’s legitimate security concerns, can be justified. But what is abhorrent is the wanton transformation of the indignation into “Russophobia”...
Colombo, March 10:
By repeatedly abstaining from voting on the issue of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, China has indicated that it will follow its national interest in any crisis, even when one of the parties to a conflict is...
The Sri Lankan think tank Pathfinder Foundation has strongly recommended that the Lankan government urgently go in for debt restructuring and bridge financing given the fact that there is an acute foreign exchange shortage and the country has to...
Colombo, March 6: The Sri Lankan think tank Pathfinder Foundation has strongly recommended that the Lankan government urgently go in for debt restructuring and bridge financing given the fact that there is an acute foreign exchange shortage and the...
The US and its Western allies have sanctionedtop Russian businessmen dubbed ‘oligarchs’ as part of their campaign against the Russian President Vladimir Putin. On March 3, the White House, in coordination with Allies and partners, targeted additional Russian elites...
