By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, April 5:
The Maldivian parliament has called for trade and tourism sanctions against Israel for its atrocities in Gaza. But President Mohamed Muizzu and his cabinet are yet to respond to the parliament’s call. Given his commitment or...
Recruiting 10,000 farm workers immediately and with the possibility of absorbing 100,000 Lankan workers eventually.
By P.K.Balachandran Colombo
Sri Lanka’s relationship with Israel has not been steady. It has seen rupture as well as restoration in the last 75...
Dependence on India and China will increase as opposition BNP is backed by the US
ByP.K.Balachandran _ Colombo,
January 6, 2024
Thanks to the Bangladesh Nationalist Party’s boycott of the January 7 parliamentary elections, Awami League’s Sheikh Hasina will get...
It is not Russia but Ukraine which is in dire straits despite massive US arms aid
By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, March 9:
Of the two countries that are at each other’s throats now - Russia and Ukraine - it is Ukraine which...
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...
Ranil Wickremesinghe has no Midas touch. Everything he touches turns to dust. Not gold. Wickremesinghe is a loser. And a trailblazer at it.
Wickremesinghe is a serial elections loser. In the 45 years or so he has been in...
N Sathiya Moorthy 11 November 2024
Call him ‘Lady-killer’ of a different kind, but US President-elect Donald Trump holds the distinction of being the only one to have gone to the Oval Office by trouncing women rivals. It is another matter...
By P.K.Balachandran
The Gambia, a small country in West Africa on the Atlantic coast, is upholding democracy at home and abroad. After emerging from two decades of a harsh dictatorship in 2016-17, the country is building a society and polity...
N Sathiya Moorthy
27 August 2024
As if campaigning for incumbent Ranil Wickremesinghe in the presidential poll that is only weeks away, a senior Central Bank official recently claimed that the nation could face severe implications if it reverses the economic reforms...
Hindutva?
N Sathiya Moorthy 5 June 2024
If the Bharatiya Janata Party-National Democratic Alliance comes back to power with the poll-time alliance intact, then, at least allies like the Telugu Desam Party and the Janata Dal-United should be prepared to be embarrassed and/or...
By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, September 14: Bangladesh’s former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina had alleged that the US would not have schemed to oust her from power if she had only handed over St.Martin’s island in the Bay of Bengal to it.
The...
N Sathiya Moorthy
Chennai 3 February 2025
Presidents before him may have visited the strife-torn Northern Province and political headquarters, Jaffna earlier than incumbent Anura Kumara Dissanayake (AKD). Yet, for the delay accompanying his maiden visit as President, he had more...
