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India performed creditably in the May 2025 India–Pakistan conflict: Stimson Centre analyst
By P.K. Balachandran/Daily News Colombo, January 6 – Despite losing some aircraft during the brief but intense India–Pakistan conflict in May 2025, India ultimately performed creditably, striking deep into Pakistan with missiles and drones while largely defending itself against Pakistani retaliation, according to Christopher Clary,...
India performed creditably in the May 2025 India-Pakistan war, says Stimson Centre analyst
By P.K. Balachandran Colombo, January 3 –Though India lost some aircraft in the four-day India-Pakistan air war in May 2025, it struck deep into Pakistan with missiles and drones while defending itself well against similar attacks by Pakistan, says Christopher Clary, a Fellow at Stimson...
Jaishankar’s objective in initiating handshake with Ayaz Sadiq in Dhaka
Jaishankar’s friendly gesture towards Pakistan parliament’s Speaker Ayaz Sadiq was most probably meant to be noticed and deciphered in Bangladesh rather than in Pakistan
UNSC was a major battle ground for Bangladesh’s liberation
Bangladesh’s war of independence was fought on the ground, in the diplomatic arena across world capitals, and in the UN Security Council, with all three venues seeing intense action.
A new Bollywood film is dividing opinions in India and Pakistan
Durandhar, a new Bollywood spy film is generating praise - and unease - in India and Pakistan for its contentious portrayal of the longstanding hostilities between the South Asian neighbours
Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation touches a hundred on December 16, 2025
By Ruwini Jayawardana/Sunday Observer Colombo, December 14 – The Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation (SLBC) will be celebrating its 100th anniversary on Tuesday, December 16. This marks a full century since a simple radio experiment in Colombo grew into Asia’s oldest radio station and one of...
Trump downgrades India and drops Pakistan in his 2025 NSS
By P. K. Balachandran/Sunday Observer Colombo, December 14- US President Donald Trump’s National Security Strategy (NSS) for 2025 signals a decline in the importance of India as compared with the NSS he presented in 2017 during his first term. In 2017, Pakistan was severely castigated...
Income inequality is a factor in climate change says World Inequality Lab
By P.K.Balachandran Colombo, December 13- The various manifestations of climate change like nature’s fury and the economic and social disruptions it causes, are linked to inequalities both in the national and global social order, says the 2026 report of the World Inequality Lab (WIL). The...
Significance of jailing Pakistan military’s ex-spy chief Gen. Faiz Hameed
By P.K.Balachandran Colombo, December 13 – On Thursday, December 11, the former head of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) Gen. Faiz Hameed was sentenced to 14 years Rigorous Imprisonment by a military court for corruption, manipulating politicians and fomenting civil unrest. The sentence was a landmark...
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