A draft of the Amendment will be given to the leaders of parties in parliament on May 27
By P.K.Balachandran
The Sri Lankan cabinet, which met here on Monday, discussed a draft 21 st. Amendment of the constitution meant to reduce...
The Centre for Policy Alternatives (CPA) observes that the Sri Lankan Government published an ‘Anti-terrorism Bill’ in the Gazette, on the 22nd of March 2023. This Bill seeks to abolish the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA) and introduce an...
Unsustainable claims put forward by the Sinhalese and the Tamils on language, religion and ethnicity, have muddied Sri Lankan politics in the post-independence era.
The Sinhalese loudly proclaim that Buddhism is quintessentially and exclusively, a “Sinhala” religion. The Tamils, on...
India-China relations, never really happy, are at a new low now. There were signs of a rapprochement in the first six years of Modi’s Premiership, but the situation deteriorated sharply after the deadly clashes on the border in 2020....
N Sathiya Moorthy
3 January 2024
The Houthis’ seizure of an India-bound ship in November, followed by one-way drone attacks on two other ships with a total of 46 Indian crew members on board in the past weeks, has taken India...
Lok Sabha Result In 2024?
By N Sathiya Moorthy
5 January 2024
In what should pass for irony of the coming Lok Sabha elections, Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched what passed for his ruling BJP-NDA's campaign in the company of ideological rival, Tamil Nadu...
N Sathiya Moorthy
30 November 2023
The jailed former President Abdulla Yameen has parted ways with incumbent Mohammed Muizzu weeks after the latter took office, citing wanton lack of communication with the mentor as the reason. Yameen, who had earlier launched the ‘India...
N Sathiya Moorthy
South Asia 8 January 2024
Maldives President Mohammed Muizzu has suspended three ministers for mocking Prime Minister Narendra Modi on social media after a celebrity-powered Indian backlash on social media asking Indians not to visit the Indian Ocean nation.
The...
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...
N Sathiya Moorthy
Colombo Gazette 9 January 2024
In northern Jaffna ahead of the annual Tamil harvest festival of ‘Thai Pongal’, President Ranil Wickremesinghe promised the full implementation of the India-facilitated 13th Amendment as the way forward to restore ethnic peace in...
How military mayhem in Myanmar and upcoming elections in Bangladesh can impact the north-eastern region of India
N Sathiya Moorthy 2 December 2023
According to the ‘rival’ Kuki-Zo community, the governments at the Centre and the state were biased towards...
N Sathiya Moorthy Chennai
11 January 2024
What the INDIA alliance needs is neither a counter to Modi's tall personality and undiminished charisma nor a counter-narrative to his Hindutva agenda, now centred on the Ayodhya temple consecration on January 22, argues N Sathiya...
