Colombo, June 27: Apart from poverty and corruption, violence rooted in religious intolerance has become a hallmark of South Asian countries. And, as in the case of poverty and corruption, the State and the polity are complicit in violent religious intolerance. writes P.K.Balachandran in Daily Mirror. In Hindu-majority North India, cow protection vigilantes called […]
Colombo, June 27 (newsin.asia): Aiming to bag Indian arms contracts and secure New Delhi’s cooperation in Afghanistan and the Indo-Pacific region against China and Russia, US President Donald Trump on Monday wooed visiting Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi by listing the Pakistan-based Hizb-ul-Mujahidden chief, Syed Salahuddin, as a “Specially Designated Global Terrorist”. The State Department […]
Washington, June 26 (Reuters): The US Supreme Court on Monday handed a victory to President Donald Trump by allowing his temporary bans on travelers from six Muslim-majority countries and all refugees to go into effect for people with no connection to the United States. The court, which narrowed the scope of lower court rulings that […]
By Ahilan Kadirgamar/The Hindu The recent no-confidence motion in Sri Lanka’s Northern Provincial Council (NPC) in Jaffna, moved by a section of the Council members against Chief Minister C.V. Wigneswaran, has brought the deep divide in Tamil nationalist politics to the fore. The turbulence lasted a week, after he called on two ministers to resign […]
Dhaka, June 26 (BDnews24.com): Signifying the existence of religious tolerance in Muslim-majority Bangladesh, the International Society for Krishna Consciousness or ISKON was able to take out a colorful procession depicting a journey by chariot of Sri Jagannath Dev during Ramzan in Dhaka on Sunday. The procession took place festival marks the return of Lord Krishna […]
Udipi, June 26 (newsin.asia): Even as Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi broke the tradition of hosting Iftar parties for Muslims in the month of Ramzan, the ancient Krishna temple in Udipi in South India held an Iftar party at the temple on Saturday. And a Sikh Gurdwara in Peshawar, Pakistan, offered food to poor Muslims […]
Colombo, June 26: The Ilankai Tamil Arasu Katchi (ITAK), which is the principal constituent of the ruling Tamil National Alliance (TNA) in Sri Lanka’s Tamil-majority Northern Province, is demanding a probe into complaints about the working of departments directly under Chief Minister C.V.Wigneswaran, writes P.K.Balachandran in Daily Express. “There are complaints against departments directly under […]
Colombo, June 24 (newsin.asia) – Sri Lankan Police, on Saturday said they were probing the murder of 26 year old Tharindi Aloka, who was found hacked to death in her home in Kottawa, in capital Colombo, on Thursday. Tharindi is the eldest daughter of a billionaire businessman. Her body was discovered in her room, lying in […]
Colombo, June 24 (newsin.asia) – The Head Coach of the Sri Lanka national cricket team, Graham Ford, on Saturday announced he would be stepping down from his post, Sri Lanka Cricket said in a statement. The 56 year old South African, who was more popularly known as ‘Fordy’ was appointed as the Head Coach in February […]
Colombo, June 24 (newsin.asia) – Sri Lankan doctors attached to the Government Medical Officers Association (GMOA), on Saturday called off an island wide strike after three days following successful talks with President Maithripala Sirisena. The GMOA said its executive committee had held talks with Sirisena afterwhich the doctors had decided to suspend their strike. During discussions […]