By Matters India Reporter Cuttack, May 9, 2019: The Supreme Court of India on May 9 granted bail to Gornath Chalanseth, one of the seven innocent Christians languishing in jail for a decade due to the alleged Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), a hardline Hindu group, fraud on Kandhamal, on bailContinue Reading
Harogere, May 9, 2019: A row of plastic pots near a borewell in the middle of Harogere village of Tumakuru district, two km from the Andhra Pradesh border, tell the story of a drought in Karnataka. Water supply has been patchy from the four public borewells in Harogere, dependent onContinue Reading
New Delhi, May 9, 2019: Several parts of north India continued to reel under scorching heat Wednesday with Jammu recording its season’s hottest day at over 40 degrees Celsius, according to the Meteorological Department. Heat wave was observed at isolated places in west Rajasthan where Sri Ganganagar became the hottestContinue Reading
Bhopal, May 9, 2019: A Protestant pastor in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh has been acquitted of charges held against him under India’s state-level anti-conversion laws. Pentecostal Pastor Balu Saste, his wife, his son, and members of his community were violently attacked by Hindus, later detained by theContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, May 8, 2019: A police complaint from a church situated on New Delhi’s Parliament Street against some former employees has been settled, police said. Madhur Verma, deputy commission of police in New Delhi, said the dispute was between the management of the Free ChurchContinue Reading
New Delhi, May 8, 2019: The ‘Free Church’ on Sansad Marg in New Delhi has written a letter to the Deputy Commissioner of Police on May 7 over a ‘perceived threat’ from illegal occupants inside the church and sought assurance of security from the police. The church alleged that theContinue Reading
New Delhi, May 7, 2019: Road accidents are the leading cause of death among people in the 5-29 age-group worldwide with more than 1.35 million lives lost each year and 50 million sustaining injuries, according to a World Health Organisation (WHO) report released during the on-going global road safety week.Continue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, May 7, 2019: India is facing “manifold crisis in higher education,” says People’s Commission on Shrinking Democratic Space in India, an NGO. The commission released the Report titled “Indian Campuses Under Seige” of the People’s Tribunal on Attacks on Educational Institutions in India inContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, May 6, 2019: India’s press freedom index stood at 140 among 180 countries in the world in 2019, Reporters Without Borders (RSF), a media watchdog, said on May 3, the World Press Freedom Day. India’s rank in 2018 was 138. According to RSF, onlyContinue Reading
Matters India reporter Jorhat,May 6, 2019: An NGO working with the Mising tribe in Upper Assam has come up with an ambitious adult literacy program for rural women. The project is being implemented in 29 villages of 5 districts of Assam covering a total of 397 women. More than 75Continue Reading