Even as India is in the midst of its parliamentary elections where human rights are a key issue.
By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, April 24:
In its report on the human rights situation in India in 2023, the US State Department paints an...
With 70 out of 93 seats, Muizzu can even change the constitution
By P.K.Balachandran
Maldivian voters gave President Mohamed Muizzu’s alliance, principally comprising the Progressive Party of Maldives (PPM) and the People's National Congress (PNC), a super majority in the...
By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, April 20: The Maldivian parliamentary elections due to be held on April 21 differ from those held in the recent past in a striking way: there is no party or leader that the voters can bet on.
Parties...
By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, April 19:
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which is considered the winning house in the elections to the Indian parliament beginning on Friday, is facing tough cultural, ideological and historical challenges in Tamil Nadu, which is to elect...
By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, April 18: If there was anyone in Sri Lanka who encapsulated the fullness of the spirit of Mahatma Gandhi, it was Dr.A.T.Ariyarane, founder of the Sarvodaya Movement, who died at the age of 92 on Tuesday.
It was...
By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, April17 On April 12, the Indian Ministry of External Affairs issued a notification asking Indians not to travel to Israel and Iran in view of the deteriorating security situation there. It also advised Indians who are already...
By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, April 11: India and China have been antagonistic since the late 1950s. The Chinese invasion of India in 1962, the border clashes of 2020, retaliatory sanctions against Chinese mobile products, restrictions on the learning of the Chinese...
By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, April 9: In the last five years of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s regime, incongruities have crept into India’s international relations.
On the credit side, there has been an enhancement of India’s international profile having become the third...
By N Sathiya Moorthy
Rulers in New Delhi and their political aides in sensitive states like Tamil Nadu have to be doubly careful not to provoke a situation whose consequences may be much more than visible now to the naked eye,...
The 2024 US Threat Assessment Report brought out by the US intelligence community, is in the context of what is described as “accelerating strategic competition among major powers, more intense and unpredictable transnational challenges and multiple regional conflicts with...
By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, March 30:
By a strange coincidence, the Indian and Pakistani judiciaries have come strain at the same time and for the same reason – pressure from the powers-that-be.
In India, the Supreme Court Chief Justice is under pressure from pro-government lawyers backed by...
By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, March 29:
The UN has decided to give the chair of the “Commission on the Status of Women (CSW)” to Saudi Arabia on March 27.
This has been roundly condemned by human rights groups and the media citing...
