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As per the Washington Post, the U.S. isn’t participating in the Covid-19 Vaccines Global Access (Covax) Facility, a joint coronavirus vaccine effort run by the WHO, the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations, and vaccine alliance Gavi that has received statements of interest from 170 countries.

In his seminal work, The Evolution of an Ethnic Identity: The Tamils of Sri Lanka: C 300 BCE to C 1200 BCE (The South Asian Studies Centre, Sydney 2005), Prof K Indrapala says that the present-day territories of Sri Lanka and South India comprised a single region in which the pre-historic ancestors of Sri Lankans and South Indians roamed freely....

Why the Indian National Congress and the United National Party are finding themselves in a bind

Dr.V.K.Valsan is to be Sri Lanka’s Deputy High Commissioner in South India, based in Chennai.

If Presidential Task Force on Archaeology in the Eastern Province usurps powers of Director General Archaeology

It's hold over the Tamil nationalist constituency is weakening, with a section becoming stridently radical and another becoming pro-government.

The Tamils' demand for greater devolution to the Provincial Councils was not addressed and the Muslims fear that their personal laws will go when government implements the "One Country, One Law" policy

This is significant in the context of Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa's statement that a new Sri Lankan constitution will be drafted

Indian Foreign Minister's talk with his Lankan counterpart and the Foreign Secretary's air dash to Dhaka for a pow wow with Prime Minister Hasina were meant to steady bilateral relations

"As the people have given us the mandate we wanted for a constitutional amendment, our first task will be to remove the 19th Amendment to the Constitution. After that, all of us will get together to formulate a new constitution suitable for the country. In this, the priority will be given to the concept of one country, one law for...