By .P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, September 2: Maldives in a financial mess and is looking out for bailouts from India and China. It’s foreign and domestic debt was 110% of the GDP at the start of 2024.
The Maldives’ net foreign exchange reserves...
By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, August 29:
On Wednesday, the Interim government of Bangladesh lifted the ban on the Jamaat-e-Islami on the plea that there was no specific evidence of its having been involved in any violence during the recent disturbances which...
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...
By P.K.BALACHANDRAN
By P.K.BALACHANDRAN
The entire medical fraternity in the Indian State of West Bengal has been up in arms since August 9 against Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for not resigning over the gruesome rape and murder of a junior doctor...
By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, August 21: Only 15% of India’s population is Muslim but 33% of all India-born migrants in the world are Muslims. About 80% of the people in India are Hindus, but Hindus are only 41% of emigrants from...
By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, August 20: Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite internet service has been allowed to operate in Sri Lanka having been issued a license to operate it on August 12 at the initiative of President Ranil Wickremesinghe. And according to...
By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, August 14: In the wee hours of August 15, 1975, a bunch of junior army officers brutally killed the Bangladesh President and the country’s founder, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and 36 others, including his family, living in his...
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....
