In the past week, protests have been circling an Indian Hindu temple. The reason behind these protests are because the Supreme Court lifted a long lasting ban on women of menstrual cycle age, allowed into the temple. The ban was in place because there was a link between menstruation and the impurity within Hinduism. Those that were arrested at the… Read more »
A few weeks ago it was reported that Sri Lanka’s president tried firing the Prime Minister and dissolving parliament. News now says that he tried replacing the Prime Minister with the ex president. The last president was a corrupt hardcore person that did not pass off power smoothly. Rajapaksa, the last president, is now the Prime Minister which many members… Read more »
Indian police arrested 68 people taking part in protests around a controversial Hindu temple ahead of a Supreme Court ruling Monday on whether it should be given more time to let women enter. The Sabarimala temple in the southern state of Kerala has become a major battleground between Hindu radicals and gender activists. Tens of thousands of pilgrims have thronged to the… Read more »
The following graph depicts the share of various import partners of Sri Lanka: In Order: India, China, Iran, Singapore, South Korea The major export commodities of Sri Lanka are: Textiles and apparel. Tea and spices. Diamonds. Emeralds. Rubies. Coconut products. Rubber manufactures. Fish
The Foreign Office has been accused of allowing government asylum policy to be dictated to by a Pakistan mob after it was confirmed it urged the Home Office not to grant Asia Bibi political asylum in the UK out of fear for the safety of UK consular staff. Asia Bibi, a Christian woman acquitted of blasphemy, is seeking asylum after… Read more »
In 1987 grenades ripped through Sri Lanka’s parliament, killing two people and narrowly missing the country’s president and prime minister. Ranil Wickremesinghe, who until three weeks ago occupied the prime minister’s office, had been in the building that day, he reminded journalists on Friday. “I’ve been here when a bomb was thrown,” he said. Even so, the scenes in Sri… Read more »
Sri Lankan lawmakers say they have passed a no-confidence motion against the country’s purported prime minister, Mahinda Rajapaksa, removing the PM and his cabinet from their posts and deepening an unprecedented constitutional crisis in the country. But allies of Rajapaksa – controversially appointed by Sirisena last month after the president sacked the incumbent PM, Ranil Wickremesinghe – say they are… Read more »
Sri Lanka’s supreme court has suspended the president’s controversial decision to dissolve parliament and MPs are planning to meet to decide between the two men claiming to be the country’s lawful prime minister. In a verdict hailed as one of the most important in Sri Lankan history, the court ruled on Tuesday evening to suspend the order by the president,… Read more »
The first thing I have noticed about South and Central Asia is that it is harder to find current event articles than for the Middle East. And once I find articles, they are vastly different in what news they are reporting. For the countries located in Central Asia, they have events that are more similar to the Middle East. The… Read more »
For nearly a month, a 41-year-old Indian man has been in prison for posting five satirical tweets. In September, Abhijit Iyer-Mitra, a Delhi-based defence specialist with some 20,000 Twitter followers posted what he himself described as a “disparaging” video from a visit to the 13th Century Konark temple in the eastern state of Orissa. Following outrage against his “vulgar” comments… Read more »