By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, September 18: The Maldives is a 100% Muslim country. But Buddhism was the dominant religion here for more than 1,000 years before the advent of Islam in 1153 AD.
According to a website of the Maldivian government, the...
By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, September 14: Bangladesh’s former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina had alleged that the US would not have schemed to oust her from power if she had only handed over St.Martin’s island in the Bay of Bengal to it.
The...
By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, August 29: On Wednesday, the Interim government of Bangladesh lifted the ban on the Jamaat-e-Islami on the plea that there was no specific evidence of its having been involved in any violence during the recent disturbances which...
By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, August 28:
Even as middle class India was seething with anger over the brutal rape and murder of a female doctor in a Kolkata hospital, news of the widespread prevalence of sexual exploitation in the Kerala film...
N Sathiya Moorthy
27 August 2024
As if campaigning for incumbent Ranil Wickremesinghe in the presidential poll that is only weeks away, a senior Central Bank official recently claimed that the nation could face severe implications if it reverses the economic reforms...
N Sathiya Moorthy If the Bangladesh government approaches New Delhi for extraditing Hasina and her sister, that too after following the due processes as known to common law and also the provisions of the extradition treaty, then New Delhi might...
By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, July 9:
There are striking similarities between the outcomes of the recent Indian and French parliamentary elections. For one thing, in both, the extreme Right Wing suffered a telling blow.
In India, the Rightist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)...
By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, July 4:
In a controversial step, Narendra Modi government in India has replaced the country’s criminal laws by new ones on the plea that the old laws were “colonial” in character and were meant to sustain British...
By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, July 1:
Cross-border political assassinations, allegedly carried out by States, are no longer the exclusive preserve of the world’s superpowers. Lesser powers are also resorting to it now, to achieve their domestic goals such as the elimination...
The latest USIRF mentions anti-conversion laws, love jihad and the burning of churches in Manipur as the main violations in India in the year under review
By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, June 27: The US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USIRF) has...
Both supporters and opponents quote research work to justify their view.
By P.K.Balachandran
There is a raging controversy over sex change or gender re-assignment in the United States with both supporters and opponents quoting research studies to justify their view.
Gender re-assignment...
Hindutva?
N Sathiya Moorthy 5 June 2024
If the Bharatiya Janata Party-National Democratic Alliance comes back to power with the poll-time alliance intact, then, at least allies like the Telugu Desam Party and the Janata Dal-United should be prepared to be embarrassed and/or...
