தமிழீழ விடுதலைப்புலிகளால் LTTE கடந்த 23வருடங்களாக காத்தான்குடி முஸ்லிம்களுக்குஏற்படுத்தப்பட்ட உயிர் மற்றும் பொருளாதார இழப்புக்களின் விபரம். FACT SHEET ON KATTANKUDY Area 1 Square Mile Population 50,000 (Supposed to be most dense of the towns and villages in the whole of South-East Asia) Location Batticaloa-Kalmunai Trunk RoadNorth: Batticaloa   South: Araipattai Village East: Batticaloa Lagoon West: Sea (Bay of Bangal) Character Though a village, urban in outlook and character Cottage Industry Handloom, Handicrafts 5A- Number of …

I embraced Islam after graduating from Cambridge. Prior to that I was a skeptical Catholic; a believer in God but with a mistrust of organized religion. The Qur’an was pivotal for me. I first tried to approach it in anger, as part of an attempt to prove my Muslim friend wrong. Later I began reading it with a more open …

Kumar Sangakkara delivered an exceptional speech in his 2011MCC Spirit of Cricket Cowdrey Lecture, touching on the history, culture and opportunties for Sri Lankan cricket as well a moving recounting of the terrorist attack on their team bus in Pakistan. Holding forth: Kumar Sangakkara's wide ranging talk on the history and culture of cricket contained criticism of the political power …

  Mansour Al-Yousef, official from the Ministry of Finance, right, hands over the consignment of dates to Abdul Hameed Mohammed Fowzie, senior minister for urban affairs, center, in Colombo on Friday. Farouk Mohamed Wazeer Ali, charge d´ affaires of the Saudi mission in Colombo is on the left. (AN photo) Saudi Arabia donated 150 metric tons of dates to Sri …

  CAIRO – Bringing back bad memories of the Soviet repression, the Tajik parliament has passed a bill that would ban children and adolescents from attending mosques, drawing sharp criticism from Muslim leaders as a crackdown on religious freedom. "It's a black day for Muslims," prominent Muslim theologist Akbar Turadzhonzoda told Times of India on Saturday, June 18. “Even in …