History is studded with femme fatales. They will kill for love. In ancient Mesopotamia Ishtar,the oldest known goddess and seductress lovedGilgamesh, a handsome semi divine king who did not love her back. As the old adage goes hell hath...
UNHRC resolutions are not binding, but powerful countries could use them to arm-twist targeted States into submission or wrest political and economic concessions from them.
By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, January 25: Sri Lanka is gearing up for a hard battle at the...
The coming UNHRC session and the visit of the Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan may have influenced the reversal of the highly divisive policy of not allowing the burial of COVID victims.
Colombo, February 10: The Sri Lankan Prime Minister...
On January 12 the Tamil Nadu State Assembly unanimously adopted a resolution urging the Indian government to immediately implement the long-pending “Sethusamudram project” envisaging a canal cut through the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Bay to facilitate ship...
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,...
Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s promulgation of a ‘food emergency’ in the face of an unending forex crisis has shocked the local population and surprised friends and adversaries, both inside and outside the tear-drop nation.
Civil society activists have also...
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...
Colombo, January 20: To admirers of American democracy and America’s ability to absorb diverse cultures, ethnicities and political views, outgoing President Donald Trump’s shenanigans and the violence that followed came as a rude shock.
As preparations were on for the...
