By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, April 11: India and China have been antagonistic since the late 1950s. The Chinese invasion of India in 1962, the border clashes of 2020, retaliatory sanctions against Chinese mobile products, restrictions on the learning of the Chinese...
By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, April 9: In the last five years of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s regime, incongruities have crept into India’s international relations.
On the credit side, there has been an enhancement of India’s international profile having become the third...
By N Sathiya Moorthy
Rulers in New Delhi and their political aides in sensitive states like Tamil Nadu have to be doubly careful not to provoke a situation whose consequences may be much more than visible now to the naked eye,...
The 2024 US Threat Assessment Report brought out by the US intelligence community, is in the context of what is described as “accelerating strategic competition among major powers, more intense and unpredictable transnational challenges and multiple regional conflicts with...
By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, March 30:
By a strange coincidence, the Indian and Pakistani judiciaries have come strain at the same time and for the same reason – pressure from the powers-that-be.
In India, the Supreme Court Chief Justice is under pressure from pro-government lawyers backed by...
By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, March 29:
The UN has decided to give the chair of the “Commission on the Status of Women (CSW)” to Saudi Arabia on March 27.
This has been roundly condemned by human rights groups and the media citing...
By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, March 27: Of late, both President Joe Biden and his Republican challenger Donald Trump appear to be toeing a softer line on Gaza. The change is attributed to public opinion in the US which is increasingly supporting...
By N Sathiya Moorthy
26 March 2024
Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge may have over-shot the target when he said the electoral scheme proposed by the Ramnath Kovind Committee, headed by former President Ram Nath Kovind meant 'one-nation-no-election' instead.
Patently deriving from...
France’s aggressive opposition to Russia now balanced with Germany’s caution
By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, March 15: For some time now, French President Emmanuel Macron had been taking a very hard line against Putin’s Russia, even demanding that European nations send troops...
N Sathiya Moorthy
12 March 2024
The most disconcerting aspect of former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s book, ‘The Conspiracy to Oust Me’, released recently, is not about what the book says or does not say. Instead, it is about the absence of...
By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, March 11:
The ongoing trajectory of Sino-Maldivian relationship, with a strategic and defence dimension to it, has set off alarm bells in New Delhi. India has responded with a series of actions to beef up its...
N Sathiya Moorthy
'If he has not achieved a 'Congress mukt Bharat' even now, the question of his creating a 'DMK mukt Tamil Nadu' does not arise,' points out N Sathiya Moorthy.
While Narendra Modi's exceptionally shrewd electoral tactics of declaring a 370/400 seat-goal for the ruling Bharatiya...
