Mumbai, July 2: Muslim Bollywood actress Zaira Wasim, 18, has announced she will quit acting, saying that the profession “threatened” her relationship with her religion. “This journey has been exhausting, to battle my soul for so long,” she wrote in a lengthy Facebook post on June 30. Indians on socialContinue Reading
By Kai Schultz and Hari Kumar Ayodhya, July 2, 2019: The barefooted pilgrims passed by watchtowers, checkpoints and walls topped with barbed wire. They emptied their pockets, stepped through four metal detectors and lined up, single file, to enter a path enclosed by a narrow cage. At the end ofContinue Reading
Guwahati, June 30, 2019: With the onset of the monsoon, nearly 10,000 people in five districts of Assam have been hit by the first wave of floods. The Assam State Disaster Management Authority (ASDMA) said floods have hit Dhemaji, Chirang, Nalbari, Jorhat and Dibrugarh districts, with the highest number ofContinue Reading
New Delhi, June 30, 2019: The rate of unemployment among Christian men in rural as well as urban areas is higher than those from other religions across the country, the Centre informed Parliament on June 27. Minority affairs minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi presented the data in the Lok Sabha inContinue Reading
Sambalpur, June 30, 2019: Odisha’s Sambalpur district administration has applauded and felicitated a 20-year-old tribal woman after she refused to marry her fiance at the mandap as he came for the wedding in an inebriated state, news agency PTI reports. Mamata Bhoi is from Gobardhan Badmal village and wasn’t willingContinue Reading
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By Matters India Reporter Kochi, June 27, 2019: Pope has decided to restore the administrative responsibilities of the Archdiocese of Ernakulam-Angamaly to Cardinal George Alencherry, a press statement from the Syro-Malabar Media Commission said on June 27. Cardinal Alencherry resumed office of archbishop of Ernakulam-Angamali archdiocese on June 27 morning.Continue Reading
Muzaffarpur, June 27, 2019: On June 16, Krishna Kumar Verma, a farmer in Muzaffarpur’s Raghavpur village in the eastern Indian state of Bihar, was told by his sister Sita Devi that her son Ankit Kumar had a fever. Verma had been following the outbreak of Acute Encephalitis Syndrome (AES) orContinue Reading
Dimapur, June 27, 2019: International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking was observed here at Institute of Development & Leadership Hall, Don Bosco School Campus, with ‘Listen First-Listening to women and children is the first step to help them’ as the theme. The programme was jointly organized by MiqlatContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Tumkur, June 24, 2019: A visually challenged child prodigy joined Karnataka’s deputy chief minister on June 23 to open a campus for eye donation movement a Clarentian priest started six years ago. “I have pledged my eyes. When I die, my eyes will not go toContinue Reading