By Tang Lu
India has a large population and is one of the fastest- growing economies in the world. But when it comes to developing competitive sports, with the exception of cricket which is popular across the country, India has...
AUTHOR - Viraj Madusanka Dias Sooriyaarachchi
PUBLISHED IN: Geopolitical Introduction
The economic landscape of nations is significantly shaped by foreign direct investment (FDI), a vital driver for development, technological innovation, and global integration. The foreign direct investment (FDI) trajectories of India...
By P.K.BalachandranColombo, December 20:
The Ram temple issue which has divided India between the Hindu nationalistic right wing and the secular left wing for years, has no spawned a split in the Hindu nationalist camp itself. Prime Minister Narendra...
The temptation to link the Maldivian absence to either the Indian troop withdrawal or the Muizzu leadership continuing with the pre-poll demand for revisiting the international maritime border with the host, Mauritius, or both was inescapable in certain circles
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Women have a higher life expectancy and Tibet and Xinjiang lag behind Western provinces Beijing and Shanghai
By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, December 22
Life expectancy goes up in China but gender and provincial gaps remain and that pattern will continue till 2035,...
By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, March 14: A recent survey done by the Washington-based Pew Research Centre (PRC) shows that democracy had suffered a decline globally between 2017 and 2023 and that there had been a rising preference for authoritarianism, especially in...
In an apparent bid to fish in the troubled waters of Sri Lanka, pro-Tamil Tiger forces in Tamil Nadu and the Diaspora, have come out with the claim that Tiger Supremo Velupillai Prabhakaran, who was killed by Sri Lankan...
Beijing proposes extensive schemes for the “joint development” of the Blue Economy of the “China-Indian Ocean Region”
By P.K.Balachandran Colombo
17 December 23
In opposition to the traditional practice of using the term “Indian Ocean” for the sea stretching from the Bay...
The Pottuvil-Poligandy long march united antagonistic Tamil parties and brought together disparate Tamil-speaking communities including Muslims.
Colombo, February 9: Due to the high profile majority supremacist policies of the government, disparate and mutually antagonistic Tamil-speaking communities of Sri Lanka...
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Sri Lanka’s strategic location in the Indian Ocean, along the vital East-West shipping lanes connecting the Straits of Hormuz, Bab el-Mandeb, and Malacca, grants the country considerable geopolitical and economic significance. With a vast maritime...
N Sathiya Moorthy If the Bangladesh government approaches New Delhi for extraditing Hasina and her sister, that too after following the due processes as known to common law and also the provisions of the extradition treaty, then New Delhi might...
