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All Ceylon Jamiyyathul Ulama (ACJU) says that it will remove the Halal logo from local products and will issue the Halal certificates free of charge only for exporters. Addressing a press conference in Colombo with the participation of the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce and a group of Buddhist monks led by Ven. Bellanwila Wimalasara Thero, the ACJU said that although …

  Chairman of the All Ceylon Jamiyathul Ullama, Rizwie Mufthi speaking at the press conference, where the ACJU suggested that the government take over the entire Halal certification process and appealed to the government to develop a mechanism acceptable to all stakeholders. Take over Halal certification – ACJU to Govt. The All Ceylon Jamiyathul Ulama (ACJU), while categorically rejecting the …

After Sri Lanka came under the rule of British empire by the agreement signed on 2 March 1815, they did not bestow independence upon us, but through riots occurred in 1818 and 1848 and subsequent political activities we have gain national, religious, social, cultural, political and economical independence. People who lived under imperial power with many sufferings were well aware …

Saudi Arabia on Sunday criticised world reaction to its beheading a Sri Lankan maid convicted of killing her employer's baby, the official SPA news agency SPA reported.   Riyadh "deplores the statements made… over the execution of a Sri Lankan maid who had plotted and killed an infant by suffocating him to death, one week after she arrived in the …