SriLankan Airlines improved its underlying operating performance in 2024/25, but engine shortages, 487 flight cancellations, falling passenger revenue and LKR 31.6 billion in finance costs pushed the Group into a LKR 2.74
COUNTRIES OF SOUTH ASIA South Asia is the southern subregion of Asia, which is defined in both geographical and ethnic-cultural terms. As commonly conceptualized South Asia consists of Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives,
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DEMOCRACY AT ANY COST? Ever since the people of the world learned the need for homogeneity –be it cultural, linguistic, religious, or tribal of for the necessity to band together and felt
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QUADRILATERAL TENSIONS AND INDIA’S GLOBAL POLITICS Tensions borne out of quadrilateral conflicts have once again pushed India to the forefront of global politics. WPR remarks that hosting the G-20 summit in New
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INDIA’S ECONOMIC GROWTH COULD BEST THAT OF CHINA Washington Post’s Adam Chandler has expressed the opinion that India’s taking over the Presidency of G-20 is propitious for the country. He writes “Last
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POVERTY IN SOUTHERN ASIA The current population of Southern Asia is 2,030,658,877 as of August 22, 2023, based on the latest United Nations estimates. Southern Asia’s population is equivalent to 25.2% of
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DEATH OF MERCENARY LEADER YEVGENY PRIGORZIN The plane crash that killed mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigorzin and several others, in the eyes of The Economist, on August 23 this year may have repercussions
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CHINA DURING THE FIRST AND SECOND WORLD WARS It is generally believed that the assassination of Arch-Duke Ferdinand of the Austro-Hungarian Empire ignited the First World War. Narratives on the Causes of
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ADB HOPEFUL ON BANGLADESH’S GROWTH According to Asian Development Bank Bangladesh is doing well. The ADB report states that exports, remittances, and domestic consumption buoyed Bangladesh’s economy in fiscal year (FY) 2022,
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PAKISTANI ARMY CHIEF ON RELATIONS WITH CHINA Pakistan’s Army Chief of Staff in July this year has categorically described the core of China-Pakistan relations. A report from Pakistani newspaper Dawn( August 3
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According to World Economics published in London and its parent Information Sciences have for 30 years specialized in developing economic data series that have become part of the financial world’s DNA. Almost
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It is generally recognized that any discussion on South Asia without reference to India would be putting the cart before the horse. In this article as well Indian geopolitical concerns would take
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SETTING UP OF THE UNITED NATIONS Due to the tensions that have arisen in the US, China, and Russia in particular threatening peace and tranquility in the rest of the world question
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CONCERT OF EUROPE AND EUROPEAN BALANCE OF POWER As is generally known Concert of Europe was a general consensus among the great powers of 19th-century Europe to maintain the European balance of power, political boundaries,
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INDO-CHINA BORDER CONFLICT AND US POLICY ON INDIA Despite India’s reluctance to be drawn into American intention to be an active partner in its fight with China notwithstanding the Indo-Chinese border conflict
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ESTABLISHMENT OF QUAD According to Dr. Prabhakar Deshpande, an Indian analyst the origin of QUAD can be traced back to the evolution of Exercise Malabar and the 2004 Tsunami, when India conducted
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