Contrary to general perception that India’s imports from China is high in only electronics sector, China is the top supplier in all 8 industrial sectors including electronics, says the Global Trade Research Institute in a report. The institute is headed...
N Sathiya Moorthy 21 April 2024
Closer the presidential election gets, the more complex it is getting. Of course, it has always been the case, including the question if the parliamentary polls should precede presidential election. In the past, incumbent Presidents and...
New Delhi to issue statement on the Lankan cabinet’s decision to back out on the East Terminal deal and offer the West Terminal instead as a sop.
Colombo, February 3: India-Sri Lanka relations have come under strain following Sri...
By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, February 15: Desperate to capture the elusive South Indian States, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) that dominates the Centre like a colossus, is using every trick in the book to stymie the functioning of opposition parties’ governments...
Former UN top brass and experts back UN Rights Commissioner’s recommendation in a joint statement
The statement based on unverified sources, has major lacunae
A number top-notch former UN officials and independent experts have called on the international...
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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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...
India and the US have designated themselves as “strategic partners” with political, economic and military dimensions to the relationship. But the partnership has kept coming under strain.
The reasons are two-fold: Firstly, its contours are not defined. Secondly, Washington’s‘America First’...
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...
The six times prime minister trounced his two opponents, Dullas Alahapperuma and Anura Kumara Dissanayake by a 52 seat majority.
Pollsters had forecasted a neck to neck contest between Wickremesinghe, who was acting president after former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled...
By N Sathiya Moorthy
8 May 2024
Had it not been for the slow but sure emergence of China as a threat to the Western order, would India have been accepted as a near-equal partner by individual Western nations, jointly and...
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...
