By Matters India Reporter New Delhi: Father Tom Uzhunnalil, who spent 18 months in captivity of Islamic militants in Yemen, arrived in New Delhi on September 28 . “I thank God for giving me a day like this,” Father Uzhunnalil said soon after he arrived in the national capital byContinue Reading

Darjeeling: A Gorkha front on September 26 withdrew its stir for a separate state after more than 100 days. The Darjeeling hills of northern West Bengal state have witnessed a near total shutdown during the period. Bimal Gurung, president of Gorkhaland, Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) announced the withdrawal of theContinue Reading

Bengaluru:Several parents of the children studying at Baldwin Girls’ High School have approached the Karnataka State Commission for Protection of Child Rights (KCPCR) demanding the removal of Baldwin Methodist Education Society’s chairman Bishop N L Karkare. They alleged that as Karkare has been accused of sexually harassing a woman, heContinue Reading

Mumbai: The Archdiocese of Bombay raised objections to the status of 90 churches in Mumbai last year when the city’s proposed development plan was released last year. The archdiocese maintained that the churches had been wrongly marked. However, when the civic body released its modifications to the plan on itsContinue Reading

New Delhi: Tihar jail woman inmate Lesley is scared of facing the world after her release from the prison and so are others like her, she said on Saturday. Lesly was speaking at a day-long programme “Beyond Prison Walls – Conversation on Prisoners’ Rights”, which brought together inmates, government functionaries,Continue Reading