Thoughts & Facts

After, the US broke off from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) or commonly known as the Iran Nuclear Deal where they accused Iran of violating the deal by not disclosing a past covert nuclear weapons program although the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)  said otherwise. The repercussions came when they announced sanctions on all the business trades with Iran mainly in Oil, which gave a major blow to our Energy situation as India is one of the largest importers of crude oil from Iran. Although in recent updates the US gave a waiver to those sanctions for 8 countries which includes India and the official release is to be out on 5th November, the US has proposed that we ensure no further deals with Iran in the future and for the purpose to stabilize the economy due to rising oil prices they offered a waiver from the sanction but only once. Eventually, India has agreed to cut its imports on oil by 15% moreover the latest reports suggest that India is planning t

By the shocking actions of President Maithripala Sirisena by withdrawing his support from the standing government. On 26 th October 2018 he sacked Mr. Wickremsinghe from his position and sworn in the ex-President Mahinda Rajapaksa as the new Prime Minister. The ousted Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe calling out his actions un-constitutional challenged his decision and urged the speaker to convene a session in the Parliament as soon as possible. But before anything could be done Mr. Sirisena suspended the parliament until November 16 and plunged the entire country into a political crisis with his decisions. Now Mr. Wickremsinghe is waiting to prove in the floor test his majority and reclaim his position. The turn of events has put the entire world into a disbelief, but an event of this magnitude was bound to take place. In 2015 Presidential Election Mr. Sirisena fought against Mr. Rajpakshe, representing the oppositions coalition as a “common candidate”, although his v