Coimbatore, June 12, 2019: India’s National Investigation Agency (NIA) on June 12 searched various places in Tamil Nadu’s Coimbatore city following reports that some people there have links with those involved in the Easter Sunday church blasts in Sri Lanka. Raids were conducted by a team of NIA sleuths atContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Madurai, June 12, 2019: A hospital in southern India organized a month-long pan-India car rally to create awareness about child cancer. Four staffers of Meenakshi Mission Hospital and Research Centre (MMHRC) in Madurai took a month off from work and covered 30 cities across 15 states.Continue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Ranchi, June 12, 2019: A human rights group in Jharkhand, eastern India, has condemned what it called repeated raids on Jesuit social activist Father Stan Swamy. “The raids and arrests are part of the government’s growing attempts to stifle dissent and intimidate those who are fightingContinue Reading
Matters India reporter Yangon, June 11, 201*: In a rare move the Catholic bishops of India’s neighbour Myanmar have jointly demanded the complete shutdown of the China-backed Myitsone Dam on Irrawaddy river. Charles Cardinal Maung Bo of Yangon and 18 bishops from 16 dioceses of Myanmar signed the statement afterContinue Reading
By C V Joseph Bengaluru, June 11, 2019: Archbishop Peter Machado of Bangalore on June 11 expressed deep sorrow over the passing away of Girish Karnad, a legendary playwright, actor and social activist. “We have lost a legend in field of literature and arts. Truly our cultural world is poorerContinue Reading
Italy, June 10, 2019: Twin brothers Giacomo and Davide Crespi have always been together, and May 25, 2019, was no different: side by side, along with three other seminary classmates, they received the sacrament of holy orders from their bishop, Gianfranco Agostino Gardin, in the diocese of Treviso, northern Italy.Continue Reading
New Delhi, June 10, 2019:The axe has fallen on about 12 senior officers of the rank of Chief Commissioners, Principal Commissioners and Commissioners of Income Tax (I-T) Department under FR (fundamental rule) 56 (j) of Central Civil Services (pension) Rules. The officers include Ashok Agarwal, Joint Commissioner of I-T andContinue Reading
Jammu, June 10, 2019: A retired government official is among the six people convicted on Monday in connection with the rape and murder of an 8-year-old girl in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kathua last year that outraged the country. The girl, kidnapped as part of a strategy to drive out theContinue Reading
Vatican City, June 10. 2019: Announcing his desire to visit Iraq in 2020, Pope Francis called for a peaceful resolution to crises in the Middle East. He also warned that God would unleash his wrath on hypocritical leaders who liked to talk about peace while selling weapons to warring nations.Continue Reading
Colombo, June 10.2019: The head of Colombo’s Catholic church in Sri Lanka, Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith, has expressed dissatisfaction over the ongoing probe in the April 21 Easter Sunday bombings, saying it will “end up in nothing” like all the previous investigations. “We can’t be satisfied about the investigations. Like allContinue Reading