Will Ranil be back in circulation?
By Vishvanath/www.counterpoint.lk Colombo, August 31 – Former Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe, who received intensive care for seven days after being arrested and remanded under the Offences Against Public Property Act, on August 22, walked out of hospital on August 29! He is expected to...
Five notorious Sri Lankan gangsters arrested in Indonesia
It was a joint operation by Sri Lankan, Indonesian and INTERPOL officers
Pakistan and Bangladesh pitch for revival of SAARC
By P.K.Balachandran/Sunday Observer Colombo, August 31 – Pakistan and Bangladesh are now seriously seeking the revival of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC). Both see the usefulness of SAARC in tackling issues the two countries are currently facing vis-à-vis India, the dominant power...
Delhi’s cloud-seeding has precedent: Prof. Subodh Kumar Ghose, India’s rainmaker
By Dr Aurobindo Ghose/www.countercurrents.org As New Delhi prepares its first artificial rain to combat pollution, I recall my father, Prof. Subodh Kumar Ghose, who more than fifty years ago launched salt-filled balloons into the skies — pioneering rainmaking in India. This August month-end, New Delhi...
Ranil Wickremesinghe – stabilised economy, taken handcuffed to remand jail
By Dayan Jayatilleka/DailyFT Colombo, August 29 – When Napoleon ordered the execution of the Duc d’Enghien, a Bourbon prince, in 1804, the great French diplomat and thinker Talleyrand reportedly said “it is worse than a crime, it is a blunder”. The phrase became legend. The...
Has the JVP led NPP Launched a Political Witch Hunt Targeting Former President Ranil Wickremesinghe ?
By D.B.S. Jeyaraj/www.dbsjeyaraj.com/www.ft.lk Colombo, August 29 – History was made when 76 year old Ranil Sriyan Wickremesinghe was arrested by the Sri Lankan Police Criminal Investigation Department(CID) on charges of alleged corruption and misappropriation of public funds amounting to a little over Rupees 16.6 million.He...
The arrest of Ranil Wickremesinghe: The all-important question over life and death of democracy
By Ranga Jayasuriya/Daily Mirror Colombo, August 27 – Intriguingly, however, the biggest victim of this sordid episode is not even Ranil Wickremesinghe, but what initially appeared to be an ambitious anti-corruption campaign. Its initial indictments hinted at a genuine desire to hold the crooks accountable....
Why Washington can’t ignore Bangladesh
While Bangladesh may seem peripheral to U.S. foreign policy interests, ignoring it would be a strategic error.
Indian demographer’s take on alleged massive illegal immigration from Bangladesh
Dr. S. Irudaya Rajan, Chair of the International Institute of Migration and Development in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, advocates a scientific and balanced approach to immigration in India, combining stringent border control with amnesty for immigrants based on economic and humanitarian criteria.
How private is a “private” foreign visit of a serving President?
The answer to the question, “how private is a private visit?” is therefore both simple and profound: it is only as private as the public can trust it to be.
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