By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, February 19:
Donald Lu, US Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia, has advised South Asian countries to follow India’s leadership in Indian Ocean affairs and has proffered the view that these nations will get...
• China and Pakistan support beleaguered Sri Lanka, even as the UNHRC resolves to implement the resolution critical of Sri Lanka's rights record.
India has told the UNHRC’s on-going 46th. session in Geneva that the full implementation of the 13th....
After last Friday’s horrendous triple train collision in Odisha in which more than 280 were killed, few would believe that the Indian Railways had actually brought down accidents steeply between 1970-71 and 2021.
A paper presented by two railway officials...
In 1953, an average of seven people, not including children, huddled around each TV set – many of them 9-inch Ekcovisions – to watch the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. The experience was like seeing “ermine-draped ectoplasm floating about at a rather bizarre...
LONDON/NEW DELHI, May 25 (Reuters) - Lloyd's Register has told India's Gatik Ship Management, which has become a major carrier of Russian oil since the Ukraine war, that it will withdraw certification of 21 of its vessels by June...
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which had been hoping to recapture Karnataka State to help it over-run South India and complete its conquest of India in the coming years, received a crushing blow in the Karnataka elections.
‘India Today’ reported...
Sri Lanka’s crisis-hit economy shrank by a record 7.8 percent last year, official data shows, as the country struggles with its worst financial crisis in seven decades.
The island’s fourth-quarter gross domestic product (GDP) contracted by 12.4 percent, according to...
Maldivian President Ibrahim Solih has won the ruling Maldivian Democratic Party’s primary ahead of the October 2023 Maldivian Presidential election. But Solih’s win in Saturday’s primary has not been accepted by his opponent, former Maldivian President and the current...
A string of new studies has confirmed the silver lining of the omicron variant: Even as case numbers soar to records, the numbers of severe cases and hospitalizations have not. The data, some scientists say, signal a new, less...
It’s Prime Minister Modi’s way of bridging the Hindu-Muslim divide.
By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, January 23:
India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday consecrated, amidst unprecedented fanfare, an idol of Lord Rama in a grand new temple coming up at Rama’s birthplace...
Some 900 million people in China have been infected with the coronavirus as of 11 January, according to a study by Peking University.
The report estimates that 64% of the country's population has the virus.
It ranks Gansu province, where...
N Sathiya Moorthy
28 May 2024
In every way, India is uniquely placed as far as its geopolitical, geo-economic, and geostrategic approaches in the 21st century go. New Delhi hosted the G20 summit and the BRICS summit in the same year,...
