The two governments make contradictory statements after the core group’s meeting in New Delhi on Friday.
By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, February 3:
In pursuit of its strategic objectives in the Western Indian Ocean, India has adopted a carrot and stick policy...
By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, January 30:
The Maldivian President Mohamed Muizzu, who has been clashing with India, accusing it of trying to impose its will on the Maldives, is now on a collision course with the Maldivian parliament.
The opposition Maldivian Democratic...
N Sathiya Moorthy Firstpost 29 January 2024
Even without his age, 77, the US media has been calling former President Donald Trump names of every description as if to indicate that he is off-balance on most issues, on most occasions.
Bob Woodward, who...
The Israel-Palestine conflict festers in the absence of powerful mediator with high stakes in peace there. The Iran-Pakistan clash is being resolved because there is a powerful mediator with high stakes in peace there, namely, China.
By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, January 24:...
India refutes Maldives’ claim that it has agreed to withdraw
By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, January 22:
Potential threats from China are likely to stall any Indian bid to withdraw its military personnel stationed in the Maldives. In fact, India has tactfully refuted...
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’s election year worldwide in 2024. Sixty four countries and 4.2 billion people, roughly half the world’s population of over eight billion, are going to the polls. While all eyes are on President Biden’s battle royal with former president...
By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, December 27:
Religion has been part of the foreign policies of Christian and Islamic nations for a long time. As is well known, one of the goals of the foreign policy of Western colonial powers was to...
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...
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.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...
