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...
By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, July 4:
In a controversial step, Narendra Modi government in India has replaced the country’s criminal laws by new ones on the plea that the old laws were “colonial” in character and were meant to sustain British...
Bharat Ratna for Lal Kishenchand Advani has gone mostly unnoticed and even more unsung -- even when widely reported.
Worse is the case of the conferment of the nation's highest civilian award on Karpoori Thakur -- who?
Advani's name was in the news after...
Swadesh Roy
The lower court has denied bail to Chinmoy Kumar Das (Chinmoy Prabhu). According to the prosecution, the case does not qualify for bail. However, Chinmoy Das’s young lawyer, despite limited opportunities to argue, patiently explained to the court...
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...
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, July 9:
There are striking similarities between the outcomes of the recent Indian and French parliamentary elections. For one thing, in both, the extreme Right Wing suffered a telling blow.
In India, the Rightist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)...
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...
By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, January 24: The Sri Lankan Cabinet of Ministers chaired by President Anura Kumara Dissanayake has revoked a decision made by his predecessor Ranil Wickremesinghe in June last year, to award a 484 mw wind power plants in...
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...
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...
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...
