RAKHI BOSE Satna, Mar. 25, 2019: Even as the fate of her community’s future hung in the balance, Sijaran Pardhi defied the dread and the cold, and made her way to Mahatma Gandhi College in Satna at Madhya Pradesh. A little older than most in her BA-first year class, sheContinue Reading
Thiruvananthapuram, Mar. 25, 2019: In order to accommodate patients suffering from pulmonary diseases and airborne diseases, cough corners will be established in every hospital across the state. Cough Corners will be made mandatory in every hospital to prevent spreading of diseases like Tuberculosis. Private hospitals have also been asked toContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, March 25, 2019: Women across India will march together on April 4 to reject what they say is the current environment of hate and violence and to claim their constitutional rights as citizens of a democratic republic. Women’s March, India, is aimed at unitingContinue Reading
Dubai, 25 Mar : A Franciscan monk who gives away most of his earnings to the poor has been handed a prize for the world’s best teacher. Peter Tabichi won the $1 million (£760,000) Global Teacher Prize for 2019 on Saturday. The maths and physics teacher, who works at aContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, March 25, 2019: India’s largest forum for Protestant and Orthodox Churches on March 24 launched weeklong prayers for a new government. “Constitutionally, the Indian state cannot have any appeasement to any religion whether majority or minority. The contemporary tendency to polarize people in theContinue Reading
By Nirmala Carvalho Mumbai, March 25, 2019: A leading Asian cardinal says the world’s resources are at the mercy of a minuscule minority, and the “poor are doubly-condemned by an economy that favors the powerful and a carbon hegemony that destroys their livelihood.” Myanmar Cardinal Charles Bo, the president ofContinue Reading
Mizoram Kohhran Hruaitute Committee, a conglomerate of 16 state churches, on Saturday appealed to all churches across the state to hold mass prayers on April 5 or 6 in view of the upcoming Lok Sabha polls and Assembly byelection. Committee chairman Rev. Lalhmingthanga told The Telegraph that the church bodyContinue Reading
Tirana, Albania, Mar. 24, — Albanian authorities say they have arrested an Indian citizen wanted in his country for money laundering. A statement Friday by Albanian police said the individual, identified only as H.P., 59, was arrested at an airport trying to leave the country. The police say he isContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Varanasi, March 24, 2019: The All India Catholic Union (AICU), Asia’s oldest Laity organization, has expressed deep concern at the communal polarization that is peaking on the eve of the general elections in the country in April and May, AICU president Lancy D’Cunha and spokesman Dr.Continue Reading
By Joe Livingston Chennai, March 24, 2019: Bi-smillāhi r-raḥmāni r-raḥīm” (In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful) were strange words for me until I stepped into Jamia Dar-us-salaam, a madrasa (Muslim religious school) at Umrabad, Ambur, a town in the Vellore district of Tamil Nadu state in southernContinue Reading