By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, January 24:
Maldives and Sri Lanka are in the unenviable position of meeting the contradictory demands of India and China on the visits of Chinese naval research vessels.
While India and China have competing strategic interests in the...
Last week’s relaxing of the ban on importing synthetic fertilizer will allow it to be brought into the country for specific types of cultivation. It will also pave the way for the import of organic nitrogen extracts to boost...
A worker makes his way to a wholesale market to find jobs in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
Photographer: Buddhika Weerasinghe/Bloomberg
By Ronojoy Mazumdar and Asantha Sirimanne
Sri Lanka is contending with a high risk of default on its local currency bonds as it seeks to...
N Sathiya Moorthy
21 February 2024
On the one hand, South Indian states have been complaining about denial of a proportionate portion of the sharable funds from the Centre, which is now based on population. On the other hand, they stand...
Looking at the pattern of China’s dealings with India in the past few years, it appears to be accommodative from one angle but antagonistic from another. Its latest moves vis-à-vis India seem to be designed to keep India guessing, indeed...
A decade and a half has passed, yet the wounds of one of India’s worst terrorist attacks remain raw and the emotional scars refuse to heal. The 26/11 Mumbai attacks did not just expose holes in the intelligence and...
Surya Gangadharan
Taiwan’s president-elect William Lai (left) and his running mate Bi-khim Hsiao who will be the island’s next vice-president. (Photo: @ChingteLai)
NEW DELHI: To China, he’s a “dangerous separatist” and “a troublemaker” but for William Lai Ching-te who led the Democratic...
By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, August 24: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Ukraine last Friday was an exercise in posturing only to seem to be neutral between Russia and Ukraine without bringing any proposals or ideas to the table.
The posturing did...
Political analysts and weather forecasters have one thing in common, the world over. Their predictions, more often than not, go wrong and they become objects of ridicule as a result. On the political front what looks like a mere...
Speculation has mounted in recent weeks that Allen Weisselberg, chief financial officer (CFO) of the Trump Organization, could cooperate with authorities in New York if he is indicted as part of a probe into former President Donald Trump's businesses.
That...
By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo December 4: The results of the November elections to five Indian State Assemblies that were announced on Sunday show clearly that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) mascot and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi understands North Indian voters...
Sri Lanka on March 27 decided to award licences to three global oil companies to operate in the domestic retail market as part of the government’s efforts to restructure State-Owned Enterprises, including the loss-making Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CPC).
Confirming the...
