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...
By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, July 11:
Before Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina left for China on a State Visit, Foreign Minister Dr. Hassan Mahmud said that the Prime Minister would seek a US$ 5 billion soft loan from China to meet...
By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, July 6:
The Conservative Party’s 14-year reign come to an end on Friday with a defeat not seen since 1832. The Conservatives won just 121 seats, which is the worst result in the party’s 200-year history. The...
By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, July 5:
The relationship between India and China has been fraught from the time of India’s independence in 1947 and the birth of the Peoples’ Republic of China (PRC) in 1949. But it was not the centre...
N Sathiya Moorthy
5 July 2024
The recent intervention by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah, and other BJP leaders during Congress Leader of the Opposition Rahul Gandhi's speech in the Lok Sabha indicates their inability to accept...
By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, June 26: India’s centralised testing system for admission to higher educational courses has collapsed. Vitiated by corruption charges, it is also condemned for being blind to social and economic inequalities among student applicants.
Millions of youth across India...
By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, June 22: Recent trends indicate that America has a two-pronged policy towards India. The White House and the State Department are keen on helping India face the Chinese military threat and also challenge China on the issue...
