By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, September 29: Tourism is the single most important source of livelihood in Maldives, directly contributing close to 30% to the GDP and generating more than 60% of foreign currency earnings. However, the Maldives Association of Tourism Industry...
Leftist always doesn’t mean pro-China’: I am reposting this interview because it is a clean break from the usual India-Sri Lanka trope. Refreshing young voice. Please listen if inclined. Also, it gladdens our heart that we are seen as...
By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, September 26: Addu atoll in the Maldives has a critical role to play in the defence of India’s strategic interest in the Indian Ocean Region in the face of burgeoning Chinese interest in the Western Indian Ocean.
The...
By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, SEptember 26: It was Buddhism which brought writing to India. Prior to its advent, thought and knowledge were not written down but wholly committed to memory and transmitted orally from generation to generation.
The initial reason for this...
By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, September 25: Vijitha Herath, Foreign Minister in the new leftist National Peoples’ Power (NPP) government in Sri Lanka, has said that foreign-funded projects will be assigned on the basis of open and transparent tendering.
But existing projects (mainly...
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23 September 2024
Shooting from the hip, Indian observers of the emerging Sri Lanka scene have to be told to stay off, and leave it to the government to handle the new Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna leader of that...
By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, September 23: The result of the Ninth Sri Lankan Presidential election uncannily followed a pattern that had unfolded in other countries in South Asia recently.
Seemingly strong and well-entrenched leaders suffered humiliation at the hands of weaker opponents.
In...
By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, September 19: The Sri Lankan Presidential election, to be held on September 21, will be a referendum on how the IMF has helped or hindered Sri Lanka’s recovery from the unprecedented economic crisis that struck the island...
By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, September 13:
The post-Hasina Interim Government of Bangladesh led by Nobel Laureate Dr.Muhammad Yunus is just over a month old. But the traumas triggered by the mass upheaval against Sheikh Hasina doggedly remain. And to add to these,...
First election to be held after the declaration of bankruptcy in April 2022.
By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, September 11: The Sri Lankan Presidential election which is to be held on September 21, will the first election of any kind after the economic...
By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, September 4: The ouster of the Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina by a student-led movement on August 5, has muddied South Asia’s waters. India, Bangladesh, Pakistan and China, are all impacted, for better or worse. Hasina’s exit in...
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...
