Kochi: The Syro-Malabar Ernakulam-Angamaly archdiocese presbyters’ council failed to meet here on January 4 as a handful of laymen prevented Cardinal George Alencherry from convening the session. The meeting was scheduled to discuss the inquiry commission report on the controversial land deals. “I was physically prevented by a group of laymenContinue Reading
New Delhi: A 29-year-old man was arrested for allegedly stealing money from a donation box of a church in Lutyens Delhi, police said today. A prayer programme was being held at the CNI Church, Pandit Pant Marg here Wednesday. Around 6pm, a man was standing there with a Bible inContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Bhubaneswar: It was a big day for Kandhamal: press conference and book release took place on Jan 4 at Odisha capital Bhubaneswar, Eastern India. Goldman prize laureate Prafulla Samantara released the revised edition of the investigative book that exposes the Kandhamal fraud and travesty of justiceContinue Reading
Matters India reporter Darjeeling — A college community radio in Darjeeling hills plans to set out on a historic “Indo-Nepal Friendship Tour” with a team of Radio Journalists visiting 7 institutions in Nepal managed by alumni of Salesian College Sonada (SCS) to mark its 80th year celebrations as well asContinue Reading
By Lanu Ignatius Guwahati; In a historic development northeast India gets its first Skill Development Center of Excellence, an initiative through industry-academia participation under government facilitation when Electronics Sector Skill Council of India (ESSCI) signed an MoU with Assam Don Bosco University, Guwahati to jointly set up a state ofContinue Reading
Kochi: A petition has been submitted to the Inspector General of Police (Ernakulam Range), seeking police probe into the Ernakulam-Angamaly Archdiocese land row. The complaint has been lodged by a person named Polachan Puthuppara seeking an inquiry specifically into the alleged cheating and corruption in the land deal. This is the firstContinue Reading
Mangaluru: A 32-year old man, said to be a “Hindu activist”, was hacked to death by a four member gang who intercepted him while he was riding a bike at nearby Katipalla Wednesday, police said. The deceased has been identified as Deepak, an executive in a mobile SIM cards distributionContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Mumbai: Father Cajetan Menezes, who is director of the Bombay archdiocese’s Snehalaya Family Service Center, has been appointed as the interim executive secretary, Federation of Asian Bishops’ Conferences (FABC) Office of Laity and Family, and Women’s Desk. He succeeds Wendy M Louis who held the officeContinue Reading
NEW DELHI: The outpatient department (OPD) services at private hospitals across the country have remained affected on January 2 after the Indian Medical Association (IMA) called for a 12-hour shutdown to protest what it describes as the “anti-people and anti-patient” National Medical Commission (NMC) Bill, 2017, that seeks to replace theContinue Reading
Thiruvananthapuram: Eight activists including one nun has been injured after a protest march taken out by the Kerala Latin Catholic Women’s Association to the official residence of Forest Minister K. Raju turned unruly. The demonstration was organised in protest against the destruction of a wooden cross that had been found toContinue Reading