By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, January 18: The four-day State Visit of Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake to China from January 14 to 17 has resulted in a number of mutual commitments which could have significant geo-political and geo-economic implications.
These commitments...
By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, January 15: US President-elect Donald Trump has threatened Canada that it could be incorporated in the USA as the 51 st. State, if Canada does not yield to US demands on tariffs, border control and sharing of...
By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, January 4: The persecuted Muslim Rohingyas of Myanmar are a community no country, including their own, wants. Their plight and their search for a home, have drawn world attention and yet no country except The Gambia in...
By P.K. Balachandran
It is generally accepted that Buddhism was introduced to Sri Lanka in 247 BC when the Indian Buddhist Emperor Asoka (304–232 BC) sent his son Mahinda and daughter Sangamitta to preach the doctrine enunciated by Siddhartha Gautama...
By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, December 31: The unending war in North Myanmar between the Yangon-based military junta and the Ethnic Armed Organisations (EAOs) is posing a serious challenge to India’s security in its own North Eastern region comprising the States of...
By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, December 30:
Dr.Manmohan Singh, Prime Minister of India from 2004 to 2014, who died in New Delhi last Thursday at the age of 92, was the answer to Prime Minister Narasimha Rao’s prayers for the redemption of the...
By P.K.Balachandran
TColombo, December 19: he year 2025 is expected to pose significant challenges and also offer equally significant opportunities to India in its bid for dominance over its geopolitical domain.
Countries that immediately matter to India are Nepal, Bangladesh, Sri...
By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, December 17:
Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s three-day State Visit to India from December 15 to 17 should be deemed a success from both the Sri Lankan and the Indian point of view.
At the bilateral talks...
By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, December 14:
The Anura Kumara Dissanayake government in Sri Lanka, which was sailing smoothly despite unsolved economic issues, suffered the first jolt since coming to power, when parliament Speaker Asoka Ranwala resigned on Friday amidst accusations that...
By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, December 13: Days before Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s visit to India, a group of professionals and university dons have asked him to cancel Gautam Adani’s wind power projects in the country in fulfilment of his...
by Probir Pramanik
Corruption charges against Indian tycoon Gautam Adani and BJP’s charge against the Gandhi about teaming up with George Soros to destabilize India threaten Indo-US relations
Washington’s discomfort with India is growing as it is being dragged into two major...
