Sheikh Hasina finds a way out of the Teesta waters logjam...
September 14, 2022
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By: P.K. Balachandran
Colombo: The joint communique issued at the end of the visit of Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to New Delhi on September 7 was quite impressi...
Loopholes in Sri Lanka’s security architecture
August 20, 2022
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By: P.K. Balachandran
Colombo: The recent Sri Lanka-India-China triangular controversy over the docking of the Chinese research vessel Yuan Wang 5 at Hambantota port, once...
After reunification Taiwan will enjoy a high degree of aut...
August 12, 2022
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By: P.K. Balachandran
BEIJING: China on Wednesday released a White Paper to expound on the position and policies of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and the Chinese...
For Sri Lanka, nuclear energy may be the best bet in the l...
August 12, 2022
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By: P.K. Balachandran
Colombo: In his recent address to the Advocata Institute in Colombo, Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe said: “I think we need to serious...
Similarities and differences between the Taiwan and Ukrain...
August 5, 2022
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By: P.K. Balachandran
Colombo: The US-China standoff over House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s provocative visit to Taiwan can be compared with the conflic...
American Civil Liberties Union is clear on protesters’ leg...
July 28, 2022
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By: P.K. Balachandran
Pro Trump protesters capture Capitol Januar 6, 2021
Colombo: In his interaction with foreign diplomats last week, Sri Lankan President Ranil Wick...
US bid to rope Sri Lanka into Quad using economic crisis
July 5, 2022
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By: P.K. Balachandran
Colombo: The United States is using the economic crisis in Sri Lanka to rope the Indian Ocean island nation into the anti-China Indo-Pacific alliance...
Nepal Backs Away From US State Partnership Program
June 30, 2022
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By: P.K. Balachandran
In this file photo, a 1st Special Forces Group (Airborne) Officer and his classmates learn route clearance operations from a Counter Insurgency Ju...
Tamil Nadu’s demand for Kachchativu island will spoil Indo...
May 31, 2022
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By: P.K. Balachandran
M.K.Stalin and Narendra Modi.
Colombo: The Tamil Nadu Chief Minister rendered a disservice to India and its relations with Sri Lanka by raising t...
Lankan President announces crash plan to meet food crisis
May 31, 2022
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By: P.K. Balachandran
Colombo: The Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa came out of his political shell on Monday, and using his Executive authority, announced a crash p...
Lankan PM proposes sweeping changes in Lanka’s governance...
May 30, 2022
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By: P.K. Balachandran
Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe
Colombo: The Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe on Sunday proposed sweeping changes in the countr...
Sri Lanka rescued from becoming a failed state
May 20, 2022
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By: P.K. Balachandran
Buses being burnt in Colombo
Colombo: When Sri Lanka was teetering at the edge of a politico-economic abyss, many wondered if it was on the w...
Wickremesinghe consolidates his position in parliament
May 18, 2022
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By: P.K. Balachandran
Colombo: Sri Lanka’s new Prime Minister, Ranil Wickremesinghe, who has been the butt of criticism and derision for the way he was catapulted to...
New Lankan PM Wickremesinghe gets international backing
May 14, 2022
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By: P.K. Balachandran
Colombo: Sri Lanka’s new Prime Minister, Ranil Wickremesinghe, has secured the support of key countries in the world such as India, the US, Japa...
Road to Sri Lanka-China free trade agreement is hard but w...
May 13, 2022
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By: P.K. Balachandran
Colombo market.
Colombo: In the early phase of the economic crisis in Sri Lanka, China had refused to reschedule the repayment of loans it had gi...
United National Party leader Ranil Wickremesinghe is the n...
May 13, 2022
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By: P.K. Balachandran
Colombo: The leader of the United National Party (UNP), Ranil Wickremesinghe, is Sri Lanka’s new Prime Minister. He took his oaths before Presid...
After violence rocked Lanka, unions bring economy to a hal...
May 11, 2022
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By: P.K. Balachandran
Colombo: After violence rocked Sri Lanka on Monday, with thugs and arsonists having a field day destroying and burning government and private property...
Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa resigns
May 10, 2022
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By: P.K. Balachandran
Colombo: The Sri Lankan Prime Minister, Mahinda Rajapaksa, resigned on Monday following violence indulged in by his followers against protestors deman...
Need for safeguards in Sri Lanka’s Emergency law
May 9, 2022
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By: P.K. Balachandran
Colombo: Sri Lankans are no strangers to the declaration of a State Emergency. Prior to the declaration of May 6, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and als...
China warns Sri Lanka: IMF conditions could affect bilater...
April 27, 2022
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By: P.K. Balachandran
Chinese envoy Qi Zhenhong with Lankan PM Mahinda Rajapaksa.
Colombo: China has warned Sri Lanka about the consequences of taking the IM...
Making Sri Lanka’s external debt sustainable
April 26, 2022
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By: P.K. Balachandran
Sri Lankan Finance Minister Ali S ... MF chief Kristalina Georgieva.
Colombo: Sri Lanka is negotiating with the IMF for help to overcome the...
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