Dissanayake
N Sathiya Moorthy
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...
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...
