We like our anniversaries in blocks of 50 or 100 – at a push we’ll tolerate a 25. The 100th anniversary of the Somme (2016), the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Britain (2015). Next year, we’ll remember the...
Given the trajectory of the China relations — Sri Lanka’s ‘India First’ policy will obviously be confined to bilateral security issues and New Delhi’s concerns in the matter.
The short-notice Colombo visit of a high-level Chinese delegation, to be followed...
Nepal is undergoing a republican democratic experiment with a harsh political, economic and social legacy. Liberal and democratic aspirations had intensified before and after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Liberal democracy, thus, began three decades after...
New coalition government has outlined its policy priorities and programs in 21 point content based issues comprising headings of preamble, citizenship and Nepali identity, policy related and structural reforms, democracy, good governance and quality civic service, sustainable economic development...
It is not going to be the same again for ordinary Maldivians and their VVIPs, some of whom have been incorrigibly lax and insistently non-cooperative in following security protocols, what with the government promising to undertake a ‘security/ intelligence audit’ forthwith....
B. Vivekanandan ...
Intervening in parliamentary debate on a government-initiated amendment to the Electricity Act, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said that India was the only ‘country that is giving us money for fuel’, and he would not be able to ask New Delhi...
Nepal witnessed two important electoral events in 2022 – local elections on May 13 and provincial and federal elections on November 20. The results of both elections are disturbing given the political equation developing in the country among mainstream...
Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has again a wrong ball in his hand which will surely hit headlines with fiddly pay-offs. The news that the mastermind of the 9/11 terror operations, Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, has become...
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