Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Mon, 10/29/2018 - 09:57
Paper No. 6452 Dated 29-Oct-2018
By S.Chandrasekharan
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Sun, 06/14/2015 - 01:09
Paper No. 5952 Dated 13-Jun-2015
Guest Column by Dr Kumar David
After a crisp period of activity following the election of Maithripala Sirisena as president and the induction of Ranil Wickremesinghe as prime minister in January and culminating in the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution (19A) in April, statecraft in Lanka entered a period of limbo and what will happen next is uncertain.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Thu, 01/08/2015 - 05:43
Paper No. 5855 Dated 08-Jan-2015
Guest Column by Professor Ramu Manivannan
There is a systemic crisis in Sri Lanka and the advanced stage of the cancerous polity will climax in the near future. The post-independent polity in Sri Lanka was never allowed to form itself.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Sat, 04/26/2014 - 09:56
Paper No. 5691 Dated 26-Apr-2014
By Col R Hariharan
[This is the text of answers to a set of questions raised by the Editor, Political & Defence Journal, a diplomatic journal through e-mail.]
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Mon, 09/23/2013 - 11:55
Paper No. 5568 Dated 23-Sep-2013
Guest Colum by Dr.Kumar David
Provincial Council (PC) elections were held in three provinces in Lanka on 21 September – the Northern (NP), North Western (NWP) and the Central (CP) Provinces went to the polls and as expected the Rajapakse government won fairly handsomely in the Sinhalese majority NWP and the CP securing about 60% of the vote.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Wed, 06/26/2013 - 05:33
Note No. 685 Dated 26-Jun-2013
by Col. R. Hariharan
Indian Ministry of External Affairs took the unusual step of issuing a strong press statement cautioning Sri Lanka not to dilute the 13th Amendment (13A) at the end of a Tamil National Alliance (TNA) delegation’s meetings with Indian leadership including the Prime Minister on June 19, 2013.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Sun, 06/16/2013 - 06:12
Paper No. 5510 Dated 17-Jun-2013
Guest Coloumn: By Dr. Kumar David
The government successfully deflected attempts to move the Commonwealth Heads Meeting (CHOGM) scheduled for November out of Colombo, and secured promises of participation from UK’s Cameron and India’s Singh. This was a diplomatic success in the aftermath of the setback at the UN Human Rights meeting in Geneva in March.
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