South Asia: The Successful Strategy Against COVID-19
When the coronavirus started to spread from China the world turned its eyes toward South Asia looking as if it is going to be the next hub, with potentially millions of deaths. And there...
Tagged: Sri Lanka
India announces $400 million loan for Sri Lankan infrastructure projects
India will lend Sri Lanka $400 million for infrastructure projects, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Friday after talks with the island nation’s new President Gotabaya Rajapaksa aimed at improving bilateral ties. Sri Lanka,...
Beijing- The new “Big Brother” of the Indian Ocean?
One of the busiest water routes in the world, the Indian Ocean is of utmost significance as a means of connectivity and flow of trade. Acting as a bridge to the Middle East, Africa,...
Modi 2.0: Neighbours in the south
Indian foreign policy under the Narendra Modi administration has arguably undertaken an approach that deviated from the Nehruvian era and the desire of the Congress to adhere to the same pacifist principles that led...
Blacklisting goes ahead: EU press hard on Pakistan, Saudi Arabia & Sri Lanka
The EU has added Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Sri Lanka to a blacklist of nations as these countries are a threat to dirty terror financing and money laundering. There have been a few misconducts...
Rajapaksa Rejected : Sri Lankan MP’s pass a no confidence motion
Following phase one of the constitutional crisis, Sri Lanka has entered the next phase. As the plot thickens and the ‘heads of the country’ make decisions for their naked self-interests, Sri Lankans watch while...
Editorial: Sri Lanka’s Constitutional Coup and the Dragon
The small South Asian island nation is burning, protests are turning ugly, people are on the streets a Prime Minister is sacked from his office. No this isn’t a coup! It is a Constitutional...
PM was sacked over assassination plot :Sri Lankan President Sirisena
Sri Lanka’s president said on Sunday that the main reason he decided to sack his prime minister was the alleged involvement of a Cabinet minister in a plot to assassinate him. In a televised address to...
Paradise Lost? Preliminary Notes on a Constitutional Coup
There were three dramatic announcements on the evening of Friday 26th October 2018 from the Presidential Secretariat, which occurred in the following order: (a) the announcement of the withdrawal of the UPFA from the government; (b)...
BIMSTEC: Challenges and Implications for India
BIMSTEC (Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation), initially known as BIST-EC (Bangladesh-India-Sri Lanka-Thailand Economic Cooperation), was formed after representatives from the aforesaid four countries met at Bangkok in June 1997....
