By Bintari Hamza Zafar FGM also kindly referred to as female circumcision is being promoted among Sri Lanka’s Muslim women with the support from Islamic clerics based in Kerala.. The ACJU, Sri lanka’s top organization of religious scholars has endorsed the practice as an obligatory Islamic duty and many Muslim religious scholars are supporting it. […]

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 Buddha Sasana Karya Sadhaka Mandalaya Abandoning the Foremost place given to Buddhism The Steering Committee of the Constitutional Assembly of Sri Lanka submitted its interim report to the Constitution Assembly on 21st September 2017. When the report was presented, the Prime Minister’s and the members of parliament representing the government stated that their constitutional proposals […]

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වරුණ චන්ද්‍රකීර්ති පෙරදිග රටවල් මංකොල්ලකන්න පටන්ගත්තාට පස්සේ තමයි සුද්දෝ තේ ගැන දැනගත්තේ. ඒ, චීනයෙන්. චීන මිනිස්සු තේ වවන්නේ අවුරුදු දහස් ගණනක ඉඳලා. කොහොම හරි සුද්දොත් තේ බොන්න පටන්ගත්තා. චීන වෙළෙන්දෝ සුද්දන්ට තේ වික්කා. සුද්දෝ තමන් ගේ නිෂ්පාදන චීනයට වික්කා. පෙරදිග ඉන්දියානු වෙළෙඳ සමාගම කියන කොම්පැනිය තමයි මේ වැඩේට සුද්දෝ යොදාගත්තේ. සුද්දෝ තේවලට වහවැටිලා හිටියේ. ඒකට […]

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CHANDRE DHARMAWARDANA Ottawa, Canada September 29, 2017, 10:04 pm The proposed constitution has provoked much debate, but mainly within the framework of traditional thinking with emphasis on a few issues like “Unitary and Devolved power, the place of Buddhism, or the executive presidency. In my view, these ignore the most urgent issues that Sri Lanka […]

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Dr Sarath obeysekera Everyday I pass thtough Galle Face along the Port City Development and note that work is steadily streaming ahead .I wonder whether we will not  alive long  to see the entire devlopment after completion as such development  will take at least 10-15 years to achieve. As a marine engineer and a investment […]

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By Sanja de Silva Jayatilleka Courtesy The Island The 36th session of the UN Human Rights Council closed just a few days back, on the 29th of September. At that session, there were allegations of genocide, systematic discrimination, rape and torture in custody, extrajudicial killings and militarization leveled at Sri Lanka besides a call by the […]

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