Colombo, August 20: In March this year, the Sri Lankan cabinet decided to abolish the Quazicourts which are Islamic Shariah courts adjudicating marriage and divorce disputes among Muslims. The Quazi courts were to be substituted by family courts. But...
The frightful hurry in which the Americans and their hangers-on attempted to fly out of Kabul on August 15 after the Taliban had entered the capital city, is rightly described as the “Saigon moment” in the 20-year history of...
Through sheer grit and a fierce commitment to their tribal and Islamic values, the Afghans have frustrated a series of imperialistic attempts to dominate them. Between 1842 and 2021, the British, Tsarist Russia, Soviet Russia and the US had...
The recent move by the government to ensure the availability of fertiliser critical for the country’s agriculture sector is welcomed by all industry stakeholders – including the Regional Plantation Companies (RPCs), which cultivate tea, rubber and other plantation crops....
There is no data on the extent of polygamy among Sri Lankan Muslims. Yet, polygamy is seen by the authorities and the majority Sinhala community as being a widely prevalent custom among Muslims, which is both a social evil...
Colombo, August 7: The Sri Lankan Supreme Court has issued an interim order suspending the operation of the Prevention of Terrorism (De-radicalization from holding violent extremist religious ideology) Regulations No. 01 of 2021, which was published as a gazette...
The death of 16 year-old housemaid Ishalini in a former Sri Lankan Minister’s house in Colombo recently has raised a number of issues of concern to the larger society and the government.
Among them, the non-implementation of laws relating to...
Delta breakthrough infections likely contagious
Among people infected by the Delta variant of the coronavirus, fully vaccinated people with "breakthrough" infections may be just as likely as unvaccinated people to spread the virus to others, new research suggests. The higher...
Unsustainable claims put forward by the Sinhalese and the Tamils on language, religion and ethnicity, have muddied Sri Lankan politics in the post-independence era.
The Sinhalese loudly proclaim that Buddhism is quintessentially and exclusively, a “Sinhala” religion. The Tamils, on...
Beijing, China: Mushrooming outbreaks of the highly contagious Delta variant prompted China and Australia to impose stricter Covid-19 restrictions on Saturday as the WHO urged the world to quickly contain the mutation before it turns into something deadlier and...
It will be critical for the US to ensure that India and Pakistan do not pursue their clashing interests in Afghanistan after the American pullout of that country at the end of August. Such a clash will ruin the...
Covid-19 vaccines, designed to target the earliest version of the coronavirus, are holding up well against the Delta variant because it isn’t so different from the original strain that it can evade the shots, researchers said.
Yet the Delta variant...
