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Secret of Manmohan Singh’s success: Was at the right place at the right time
He was the answer to Prime Minister Narasimha Rao’s prayers for the redemption of the broken Indian economy. By P.K.Balachandran Colombo, January 7: Dr.Manmohan Singh, Prime Minister of India from 2004 to 2014, who died in New Delhi last Thursday at the age of 92, was...
Challenges and opportunities for India in war-torn Myanmar
The spill over from the war is disturbing the ethnic equilibrium in India’s By P.K.Balachandran Colombo, January 7: The unending war in North Myanmar between the Yangon-based military junta and the Ethnic Armed Organisations (EAOs) is posing a serious challenge to India’s security in its...
Persecuted Muslim Rohingyas of Myanmar are still searching for a home
Their peculiar case languishes at the ICJ and ICC as regional and world powers turn a blind eye to their plight By P.K.Balachandran Colombo, January 7: The persecuted Muslim Rohingyas of Myanmar are a community no country, including their own, wants. Their plight and their...
Setback in Sino-Indian relations due to fresh territorial and water disputes
Recent cartographic changes by China and its decision to dam a river in Tibet have raised the hackles in New Delhi putting recent arrived détente under strain. By P.K.Balachandran Colombo, January 7: Last year, regional rivals India and China reached an agreement on border patrolling,...
Outlook for India’s economy in 2025
Euphoria needs to be tempered with realism Colombo, January 6: In India today, there are two contrasting views on the state of the economy. There is a rosy, sectional, view projected by the government and the mainstream right wing media. And there is another which is more...
Dead Lankan ISIS militant went In guise Of doing relief work
By P.K.Balachandran Colombo, July 22,2015: Mohammad Niram alias Abu Suren Silani, the Sri Lankan recruit to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) who was killed in action in Syria recently, had told his family prior to his departure for the Middle East war...
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