Colombo, July 10
- Till the beginning of this year, it appeared as if India was on the rise. It had become the world’s fourth largest economy and its leader, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, was inspiring Indians to dream...
The concept of a Caretaker Government to conduct free and fair elections has had a long and tumultuous history in Bangladesh. It seldom worked satisfactorily as political parties manipulated just as they manipulate other constitutional and administrative institutions. Even...
By Raji Krishna
Colombo, July 2 - Scrapping USAID and similar other cost cutting exercises by US President Donal Trump will soon cripple critical international development institutions including the World Bank and IMF, the British medical journal Lancet warns.
On Jan 20 this...
Colombo, June 30
With the acquisition of the Colombo Dockyard PLC (CDPLC) by the Indian Defence Ministry’s Mazagaon Dock Shipbuilders Ltd., (MDSL) last week, India’s position in Sri Lanka’s maritime domain vis-à-vis rival China, has been strengthened.
Given Colombo port’s...
Iran’s exploits in battle and Zohran Mamdani’s stunning victory in the Democratic Party’s primary in New York, have shattered the myth of Zionism’s military and political invincibility.
By Raji Krishna
Colombo, June 27 - Two historic events occurred in June 2025....
By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, June 26 – All three parties in the recent West Asian war, namely, Israel, Iran and the United States, are claiming victory. The three certainly caused great damage, but the “victor”, if there was any, was Iranian...
Indo-Lankan cooperation will take into account geopolitical factors
P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, June 24 – Recently, the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) of the UN wanted to send the State-of-the art research vessel “Dr Fridtj of Nansen” (F. Nansen) to Sri Lanka and had...
For India, President Trump’s popping up Pakistan Army chief Asim Munir to the level of a Head of Government was the last straw on the camel’s back.
By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo June 21 – With the India-US “strategic partnership” developing deep cracks...
“Canada has never faced threats of such magnitude”, says the Canadian Security Intelligence Service in its latest report which names India, Pakistan, China and Russia as the prime offenders.
By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, June 20 – Even as Canada and India are...
Even as the Boeing 787 is dogged by technical issues, the parlous state of the Indian aircraft maintenance sector is adding to anxieties over aviation safety.
By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, June 17 – It hasn’t been a dream run for the much -touted...
The on-going controversy over Tamil film actor Kamal Haasan’s remark on the history of the Kannada language has again brought into the open the linguistic factor in Indian politics.
By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, June 16 - Indian politics is woven around four...
By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, June 11 – Minority politics is collapsing in Sri Lanka, says the latest research paper on the subject done by two British institutions.
The power minority representatives used to wield in Sri Lankan national parties and through their...
