The Don Bosco Development Society is providing education in 10 villages in the state of Rajasthan, for 300 extremely poor and disadvantaged children, including children of farmers and workers in quarries. The educational project is supported by the van Ameringen Foundation, which provides funds for innovative and practical programs forContinue Reading
Kolkata, Jan. 20, 2020: Free Voice India spoke with the Award Committee Chairperson Anthony Arun Biswas who admitted that while the Missionaries of Charity objected in promoting Kolkata’s very own Mother Teresa, he and his organisation used the name of the Saint to get name and fame. Mother Teresa InternationalContinue Reading
By Basant Kumar Mohanty New Delhi, Jan 20, 2020: The Narendra Modi government plans a chain of exclusive residential schools for Dalit children, but some activists have drawn a parallel with America’s former racial segregation policy. The proposal before the social justice and empowerment ministry is to start 150 AmbedkarContinue Reading
By Piyush Srivastava Lucknow, Jan 20, 2020: Police snatched their biscuits, water bottles and spare blankets on January 18 night. ● Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s social media team sneaked into the protest through following morning and afternoon, scouring for anything that could be used against the women andContinue Reading
Kolkata, Jan 17, 2020: As the clock strikes noon, this small empty courtyard in Entally fills up with eager eyes and empty tummies. The promise of food has been bringing the hungry mouths from the neighboring slums to this courtyard every afternoon since the beginning of the new year. It’sContinue Reading
New Delhi, Jan 15, 2020: Housewives are second largest group among suicide victims in India, according to the “Suicide in India 2018” data released by the National Crime Record Bureau. Housewives accounted for 17.1 percent of suicides in that year. Daily wage earners topped the list (22.4 percent), followed byContinue Reading
By Nikhil George Joseph New Delhi, Jan 14, 2020: Jesuit Father Job Kozhamthadam is an award-winning historian and philosopher of science, who acknowledges the role of religion in the development of modern science and technology. The 74-year-old priest is in the breed of scholars who specialize in the history andContinue Reading
New Delhi, Jan 10, 2020: Chhapaak (Splash), a Bollywood film released on January 10, draws social attention to victims of acid attacks who are forced to live as outcasts. The Hindi-language film, directed by Meghna Gulzar and produced by her as well as Deepika Padukone in collaboration with Fox StarContinue Reading
New Delhi, Jan. 10, 2020: Every night, 75-year-old Noornissa braves the freezing cold to help block one of the main roads into the capital of India, in a protest that is at the forefront of a rising challenge to Prime Minister Narendra Modi. For nearly four weeks, Noornissa and moreContinue Reading
By Poorvi Gupta New Delhi, Dec 27, 2019: Nearly 70 percent Indian mothers have used smartphones to raise their children, according to a survey by YouGov, an Internet-based market research and data analytics firm. The firm has also found that eight out of 10 mothers feel that technology has madeContinue Reading