By James Gorman July 30, 2019 At a neighborhood meeting on street dogs in Vadodara, a city of two million people in the Indian state of Gujarat, residents complained that the dogs were stealing shoes left on racks outside their homes. One woman said that unfortunately, the dogs preferred newContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Patna, July 31, 2019: Archbishop William D’Souza of Patna on July 31 urged students of a Jesuit college to imbibe right moral values as they strive to become achievers in life. “All of us want to succeed in life. We want to be achievers. But theContinue Reading
New Delhi, July 31, 2019: A man cancelled his food delivery order from Zomato because his delivery executive was a “non-Hindu.” His tweet was widely condemned, even by Zomato, and now politicians have also reacted to the controversy. Federal Minister Ramdas Athawale termed the incident as a “threat to theContinue Reading
By Linah Baliga Mumbai, July 31, 2019: A coffin came floating out of a grave in Sewri Christian Cemetery on July 28, much to the horror of the family and friends of the dead person. A combination of groundwater and rainwater turned the grave into a well, making the burialContinue Reading
By Muktadir Rashid Dhaka, July 31, 2019: Senior Christian religious leaders in Bangladesh and Myanmar, and Caritas Internationalis called on Bangladesh Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan and wanted to know what they could do for the Rohingyas living in Cox’s Bazar camps. Emerging from a closed-door meeting at the secretariat inContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Bengaluru, July 31, 2019: Rinku (name changed) came to Bengaluru from Assam lured by the promise of a decent job. She ended up in a bar. “The condition of bar girls is worse than that of prostitutes,” says the woman who has managed to escape theContinue Reading
London, July 30, 2019: Justin Welby, the archbishop of Canterbury and a leading figure in the British establishment, will seek to encourage Indian leaders to affirm and implement Article 25 of the Constitution that guarantees freedom of religion during his forthcoming 10-day visit to the country. Visiting at the invitationContinue Reading
By Meera Emmanuel Chennai, July 29, 2019: The Madras High Court has observed that the Tamil Nadu government appears to have done little to curb honor killings in Tamil Nadu. This, despite the Supreme Court’s directions passed last year in Shakti Vahini v Union of India, the court said afterContinue Reading
Patna, July 30: Death toll in Bihar floods rose to 130 on July 30, whereas 88.46 lakh people have been affected in 13 districts in inundation caused earlier this month due to torrential rainfall in the catchment areas of Nepal, state disaster management department said. After the death figure remainedContinue Reading
By Joanna Slater NEW DELHI, July 29: It was not the kind of news a freshly reelected government likes to hear. Days after Narendra Modi was sworn in for a second term as India’s prime minister, industry data showed that sales of passenger vehicles experienced their biggest slump in 18Continue Reading