Chinese President Xi Jinping told the Communist Party Congress on Sunday, that his government “will establish a policy system to boost birth rates and pursue a proactive national strategy in response to population aging." But the brief reference amidst...
One of the motivating factors in the popular movement “Aragalaya” was the intense thirst for participatory democracy in Sri Lanka. It was felt that established institutions of democracy such as the Parliament, the Provincial Councils and the Local Bodies...
The ongoing India-UK row over immigration, which has put a question mark over the conclusion of a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) later in October, has caused dismay in India. It has been particularly hurtful because the British Home Secretaries...
The prospect of any election being held in Sri Lanka in the near future appears to be dim given President Ranil Wickremesinghe’s fresh call to change the electoral system first before going in for elections.
And the lack of enthusiasm...
Looking at the voting on the UN Human Rights Council’s resolution on Sri Lanka on October 6, it appears that the decisions taken by the 47 members were determined by their respective positions in geopolitics and their national interest.
The...
Since the United States is finding India to be a recalcitrant partner, given New Delhi’s penchant for “strategic autonomy”, Washington has reverted to its old policy of cultivating Pakistan, India’s rival in South Asia.
In the past, Pakistan had its...
When there is voting in the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) on a resolution on the human rights situation Sri Lanka, the island nation is expected to lose the vote as it did in March 2021.
But, as seen earlier,...
When Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated on January 30, 1948, the leaders of the new country Pakistan were shaken, and in their speeches in the Constituent Assembly and the Provincial Assemblies, they fulsomely acknowledged the Indian leader’s life-long fight for...
It was not very long ago that many thought that India had totally abandoned its traditional non-aligned foreign policy and was squarely in the US camp. The 2008 Indo-US nuclear deal which gave Indian critical waivers, the increased purchase...
The energy crisis provoked by the war in Ukraine may prove so economically destructive to both Russia and the European Union that it could eventually diminish both as great powers on the world stage. The implication of this shift—still...
CHANDANA POKUNA, Sri Lanka -- Every day after 4 p.m., residents in this quiet, leafy village listen for the putt-putting of motorbikes on the sandy road next to their homes. When they hear it, they know to shut their...
Reporting on the meeting between the Sri Lankan Foreign Minister Ali Sabry and his Chinese counterpart, Wang Yi, last Friday on the sidelines of the 71st UN General Assembly session in New York, the Chinese embassy in Colombo said that...
