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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...
Trump’s National Security Strategy Sidesteps India
By P.K.Balachandran/The Citizen Colombo, December 10 – US President Donald Trump’s National Security Strategy (NSS) for the year 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...
Europe’s animosity brings Putin closer to India
By P.K.Balachandran Colombo, December 5 (The Citizen) – Russian President Vladimir Putin’s visit to India to attend the 23 rd. Indo-Russian summit on December 6 is expected to result in agreements for wide-ranging military and civilian technology sharing in all domains including land, air, sea,...
US and China will benefit from cooperation,not conflict
By Christopher M. Schroeder/Subtrack I went to China last month for the first time in six years. I was there at the invitation of a fascinating group that includes CEOs from China and America to meet in Beijing. But this was also an excuse to...
Trump to ‘permanently pause’ migration from ‘all third world’ countries
US President Donald Trump widens crackdown on immigrants
In the West, even Protestant priests are switching to the Catholic church
The push factor is the spiritual vacuum in the Protestant ecosystem and the pull factor is the promise of a clear and firm belief system in the Catholic church
Chomsky had deeper ties with Epstein than previously known, documents reveal
The philosopher and the sex trafficker were in contact long after Epstein was convicted of soliciting prostitution from a minor, documents reveal
Case in US against Adani is at a standstill
By Alex Travelli and Santul Nerkar New York, November 20 (New York Times) – A year ago, the Department of Justice under former President Joseph R. Biden Jr. surprised India by indicting Gautam Adani, the country’s most prominent businessman with personal ties to Prime Minister...
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