Trichy: Church of South India (CSI) will organise the quadrennial conference of the Women’s Fellowship of church, an event held once in 20 years in the state. The three-day conference will begin on Friday. As per the organisers, a total of 350 women from the 24 dioceses of CSI (exceptContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Bhubaneswar: Xavier University Bhubaneswar (XUB) bagged Four Palmes Global Award for outstanding academic excellence in management education and research. In a glittering ceremony held on November 9, France-based Eduniversal Convention gave away the award at the Grand Hyatt in Dubai. While over the past few yearsContinue Reading
Child and maternal malnutrition remain the single largest risk factor, responsible for 15 percent of the total disease burden of India in 2016. Two years after Swachh Bharat Abhiyan was launched, the per person disease burden due to unsafe water and sanitation was 40 times higher in India than inContinue Reading
Dehradun: The real aim of education is to make people compassionate and service-minded, says a leading Indian environmentalist. “Artificial intelligence will do mechanical work but the world does not run on mechanical work, it thrives on the heart- on compassion and on care,” asserted Vandana Shiva on November 13 whileContinue Reading
Mumbai: In an exemplary move, civic officials and members of the Christian community from Andheri East shifted a stone cross located on the road opposite Holy Family Church inside the premises Tuesday. The move follows the Bombay high court’s order to remove wayside shrines. The 75-year-old church at Chakala givesContinue Reading
Mumbai: A gigantic multicoloured mural, depicting Mahatma Gandhi alighting from a train at a railway station in the 1940s, went on display at the iconic Churchgate station building, earning praise from millions of daily Western Railway commuters. The permanent mural, sponsored by Asian Paints Ltd as part of its CSRContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Mumbai: As an answer to Pope Francis’ invitation to dedicate November 19 as “World Day of the Poor” by increasing our deeds of love towards the poor, Focolare Movement India is set to launch a new project called “DIL”(Deeds that say I Love). “The aim ofContinue Reading
The Karnataka Sahitya Academy has announced a massive research project titled Dalit Christians Samskrutika Shodha Maale on Dalits who converted. It envisages study of cultural, social aspects, conflicts and the political changes of Dalits who converted. The project has been taken up under the Special Unit of Schedule Caste andContinue Reading
Bengaluru: group of 25 city-based techies who took part in two-day hackathon Hack4Her, have come up with technology-based solutions to support education for women. These include providing access to online educational materials for girls, including a need-based helpline with information on their rights, building capacities of tutors in Kishori SanghasContinue Reading
By Asgar Qadri Varanasi: Over the last two decades luxury brands have eyed India’s fast-moving economy, booming middle class and youthful population, already among the world’s largest, hoping they had discovered their next big market. But it wasn’t to be. Along with India’s protectionist policies (talks with the European UnionContinue Reading