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    NewsIn.Asia is a South Asian website, operating from Colombo and accessed by readers worldwide. It offers its readers timely, indepth and comprehensive coverage of South Asian news, views and analyses. The site is active on social media such as Facebook and Twitter where it has thousands of followers. Within months after its launch, in July 2016, NewsIn.Asia has become a popular web portal in Sri Lanka and many South Asian countries where it has gained a reputation of unbiased reporting amongst its readers. The areas covered by NewsIn.Asia include politics, business, sports, cinema, off beat, food and travel.

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  • Bangladesh elections: Will Hasina’s authoritarianism dent her developmental plank?0

    • Blog
    • December 23, 2018

    By Editor on December 22, 2018 By P.K.Balachandran/DailyFT As Bangladesh goes for general elections on December 30, the million dollar question in people’s minds is whether or not Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s authoritarian actions will dent her impressive developmental plank. Hasina’s ten-year tenure as Prime Minister, from 2009 till date,  has been marked by very impressive economic growth.

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  • Challenges to South Asian security0

    • Blog
    • December 19, 2018

    By Editor  December18, 2018 By P.K. Balachandran Terrorism, religious fanaticism and class wars are endemic in South Asian states. There is continuous cross-border terrorism which is but a proxy war between States. There are external economic and military threats from new and old hegemonic forces.  There are threats from non-State actors like terrorists, pirates, human smugglers

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  • Sirisena refuses to re-appoint Wickremesinghe even as Appeal Court stays Rajapaksa Premiership0

    • Blog
    • December 4, 2018

    By Editor on December 3, 2018 Colombo, December 3 (newsin.asia): The Sri Lankan Court of Appeal on Monday passed an interim order preventing Mahinda Rajapaksa and his 49-member purported Council of Ministers from functioning till the Quo Warranto petition filed by 122 Members of Parliament is adjudicated. Later, Rajapaksa issued a statement saying that he will appeal to

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  • TNA says it won’t support any impeachment move if President withdraws unconstitutional actions0

    • Blog
    • December 1, 2018

    By Editor on December 1, 2018                         Colombo, December 1 (newsin.asia): The 14-member Tamil National Alliance (TNA) group in the Sri Lankan parliament, which is playing a pivotal role in the on-going constitutional imbroglio, has told President Maithripala Sirisena that it will not support any move by

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  • Lankan President fails to win over Tamil National Alliance on the issue of Premiership0

    • Blog
    • November 30, 2018

    By Editor on November 30, 2018                       Colombo, November 30 (newsin.asia): The Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena on Friday failed to get the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) to persuade the United National Front (UNF) to put up an alternative to Ranil Wickremesinghe for the post of Prime Minister.

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  • Sri Lanka’s top military officer detained in deaths of 110

    • Blog
    • November 28, 2018

    By Editor on November 28, 2018                   Colombo, – A Sri Lankan court has ordered the detention of the country’s top military officer for investigation in connection with the abduction and disappearance of 11 young people during the country’s civil war that ended nine years ago, the Associated Press reported.

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  • Maldivian opposition leader alleges President Solih has “secret” deal with India on mega project0

    • Blog
    • November 26, 2018

    By Editor on November 26, 2018 Male, November 27 (AVAS): The Maldivian opposition party, Progressive Party of the Maldives (PPM) led by former President Abdulla Yameen,has charged that the Ibrahim Solih government has entered a “secret” deal with India to increase the Indian military presence in the archipelago and also to give the I-haven Special Economic Zone project

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