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TopicSri Lanka

Topic: Sri Lanka

‘We will uphold democracy’: Holed up in Colombo mansion, Ranil Wickremesinghe vows to fight

Iain Marlow -
While Wickremesinghe insists he holds a majority in parliament, former president Rajapaksa enjoys support for ending the country’s brutal 26-year civil war.

Between Sardar Patel and Urjit Patel, TV news channels forgot Sri Lanka

Shailaja Bajpai -
Punsters had a field day when Narendra Modi dedicated Sardar Patel’s statue to the nation.

India seems clueless on Colombo crisis

ThePrint Team -
The 50-word Edit — ThePrint view on the most important issues, instantly.

Angela Merkel to exit politics, and Tamils at risk again in Sri Lanka

Sankalita Dey -
Donald Trump to deploy armed soldiers to stop Central American refugees, and China allows tiger bone and rhinoceros horns in medicines.  

Neither New Delhi nor Beijing should take Colombo for granted

Mihir Sharma -
Sri Lanka is not ready to become another front in an India-China cold war for control of the Indian Ocean.

Sri Lanka’s speaker warns of bloodshed as political crisis deepens

Iain Marlow -
Sri Lankan parliament speaker Karu Jayasuriya fears violence if leadership struggle isn't settled in the legislature.

US wants Sri Lanka President Maithripala Sirisena to immediately reconvene parliament

PTI -
Sirisena sacked PM Ranil Wickremesinghe last week and appointed former strongman Mahinda Rajapaksa as the new prime minister.

Former ISRO chief joins BJP and India to keep a watch on Sri Lanka

Rupanwita Bhattacharjee -
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Handle with care: Sri Lanka now has two Prime Ministers and a lot of political chaos

Seshadri Chari -
As political chaos engulfs Sri Lanka, it is time for India to cautiously increase economic engagements with Colombo.

As Rajapaksa, the man India helped oust in 2015 becomes Sri Lanka PM, New Delhi watches and waits

Jyoti Malhotra -
President Sirisena does his old political enemy Rajapaksa a favour by not letting the ousted PM prove his majority in Parliament.
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Kushan Mitra -
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Economy

Paper in MoSPI journal flags financial inclusion gap—highest among Hindus, lowest for Muslims

Udit Bubna -
Research paper, however, finds lowest indebtedness level among Muslims at 12.3% & highest among Hindus at 14.9%. Overall national financial inclusion level at 87.2%, indebtedness at 14.7%.

Defence

From battle of wits and daring air strikes to artillery fury, new details emerge of Operation Sindoor

Snehesh Alex Philip -
Fresh details of operation conducted by IAF, Army have come out in gazette notification giving citations of those who were awarded Vir Chakra for their bravery.

National Interest

Deepfake on duty: when I asked AI to read Op Sindoor citations

Shekhar Gupta -
On 21 Oct, a buzz went up that the govt had released full list of gallantry award recipients along with Op Sindoor citations. I put an AI caddy on the job. It took me into a never-ending rabbit hole.

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