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...
By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, December 8: Bashar Al-Assad, the ruthless ruler of Syria since 2000, fled from his country on Sunday after his iron-clad security and political structures fell like a house of cards in the face of an unexpectedly strong...
By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, December 7: Not getting an invitation from New Delhi to visit to India after he took over as Nepal’s Prime Minister in July this year, K.P.Sharma Oli broke a long standing tradition of Nepalese Prime Ministers visiting...
The Sri Lanka Easter Sunday Bombing of 2019 is often portrayed as a conspiracy shrouded in mystery. However, several in-depth reports offer detailed insights, uncovering the complex factors behind the attack and its aftermath. These reports are essential for...
By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, December 2: Alauddin Mohammad, a member of the Bangladesh National Citizens’ Committee Executive, seeks people-to-people contacts between Bangladesh and India to clear misunderstandings that had vitiated the relationship after the ouster of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in a...
By P. K. Balachandran
Colombo, December 2:
The Indian freedom fighter Tipu Sultan (1751-1799) is glowingly described by his admirers as the “Tiger of Mysore” who died bravely fighting the British on the battlefield.
But in the eyes of British commentators...
By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, November 28: Maldivian President Mohamad Muizzu recently took a couple of critical steps to bring about stability in politics and in the handling of finances, as part of his efforts to reform and tone up the Maldivian...
An Indo-Maldivian Comprehensive Economic and Defence Partnership Agreement is on the cards.
By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, November 23: Maldives was ardently pro-China from 2013 to 2018 during the Presidency of Abdulla Yameen. But it swung completely to the Indian side when Ibrahim...
By PK.Balachandran
Colombo, November 22: Indian billionaire Gautam Adani, who presides over a multinational business empire worth tens of billions of dollars, is now facing an arrest warrant from a New York court.
According to Reuters, prosecutors are planning to hand...
By P.K.Balachandran
The assassination of Mahatma Gandhi by a Hindu fanatic on January 31, 1948 in New Delhi, though immeasurably unsettling, played a seminal role in uniting a conflict-ridden India both emotionally and politically, says Cambridge University historian Prof. Yasmin...
