Venu Naturopathy

 

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Anura Kumara Dissanayake, Donald Trump, Narendra Modi and Xi Jinping

Sri Lanka Needs to Find a ‘Political Common Ground’ in Its Foreign Policy

Championing a rules-based maritime order in the Indian Ocean, which Sri Lanka has long called for since its 1971 ‘Indian Ocean Peace Zone’ (IOPZ) proposal and ensuring strict adherence to the provisions of the ‘UN Convention on the Law of the Sea’ (UNCLOS), will reinforce Sri Lanka’s credibility and also encourage cooperative stability in the Indian Ocean.

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Donald Trump, Narendra Modi, Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin

Trump's Tariffs and India's Strategic Dilemma: Acid Test for Modi Government

For Modi, the political cost of appearing to bow to American pressure may be almost as high as the economic cost of resisting it. In the end, the tariffs are not just about commerce. They are a test of whether India can still straddle the fault lines of great-power rivalry—whether the world’s most populous democracy is being forced into the uncomfortable role of choosing sides.

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US Positioning on Crypto Currency has implications for BRICS and South Asia

With the  Ukraine war  and  the resulting sanctions making it difficult for Russia to trade with its allies, being  barred from using SWIFT or the US dollar, it resulted in Russia resorting to local currencies to trade that resulted in the BRICS currency drawing adverse attention in Washington and gaining global imprtance.

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Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus

From Laureate to Liability: The Unraveling of Yunus’s Interim Rule

In the end, Yunus may find that his greatest failure is not the scandals that have already emerged, but the corrosion of hope that followed him into office. A nation that once believed it had found a principled steward now sees another operator in the same tired political theater—just with better English and a Nobel medal.