By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, August 8: The newly appointed Chief Advisor to the Interim Government of Bangladesh, Nobel Laureate Dr.Muhammad Yunus, has called for an end to the violence and vandalism that a re continuing even after the flight of the despised...
By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, August 7: In a classic case of poetic justice, persecuted Nobel Laureate Dr.Muhammad Yunus will replace his persecutor, Sheikh Hasina, as the Chief Executive of Bangladesh in an Interim Government to be set up following Hasina’s resignation...
By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, August 6: After packing off Sheikh Hasina from the Prime Ministership of Bangladesh, the leaders of the student movement which led to her ouster on Monday, “appointed” Nobel Laureate Prof. Muhammad Yunus as Chief Advisor of the...
By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, August 6:
Following the month long violent unrest over the job quota issue in Bangladesh, and upon the intervention of the Bangladesh army chief Gen.Waker-uz Zaman, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her sister Sheikh Rehana flew out...
By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, August 4: After the Bangladesh Supreme Court struck down the controversial quotas in recruitment for white-collar government jobs on July 21, the nation-wide student-led violent agitation on the issue was expected to end.
But it did not end....
By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, August 3: Kamala Harris, who has secured the Democratic Party nomination to contest the November 2024 US Presidential election, is likely to be tougher on human rights as compared to Joe Biden, even as she broadly follows...
By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, August 2:
The Sheikh Hasina government in Bangladesh is rapidly coming under pressure from the international community over the repressive measures it had adopted to quell the students’ agitation against quotas in recruitment to government service.
Bangladesh has...
By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, July 31:
The 2024 US Presidential election appears to be predominantly about domestic socio-cultural issues.
The most engaging subjects in the on-going campaigns of the Democrats and the Republicans for the November 2024 election are rising immigration from...
By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, July 25:
The latest opinion poll conducted for CNN by SSRS has found that the presumptive Democratic party candidate for the US Presidency, Kamala Harris, has 46% support among registered voters nationwide while Donald Trump has 49%.
Therefore,...
Army to be called in as nation-wide student violence reportedly claimed 105 lives
By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, July 20:
The Bangladesh government is to call in the army to quell student violence over the quota system for State employment as 105 were...
US envoy Eric Garcetti’s outburst on Indo-US relations is a symptom of the cost of pursuing the national interest by exercising strategic autonomy.
By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, July 18:
In May 2014, Narendra Modi kicked off his first term as Prime Minister...
