Boston, July 1, 2019: A group of more than 50 people from all walks of life from the Greater Boston area assembled in Harvard Square in Cambridge, MA, to protest against the unabated pace of mob lynching and the growing threat to human rights of citizens in India, especially thoseContinue Reading
By: Matters India Reporter Calgary, June 24, 2019: A Catholic diocese in Canada has cancelled a retreat to be given there in July by Indian priest Fr Dominic Valanmanal who has been preaching that an increased incidence of autism and hyperactivity in children is due to their parents’ lifestyle. EarlierContinue Reading
Washington, June 17, 2019: A 44-year-old Indian-American IT professional and his three family members have been found dead with gunshot wounds inside their home in the US state of Iowa. The bodies of Chandrasekhar Sunkara, wife Lavanya, 41, their 15-year-old and a 10-year-old sons were found in their home onContinue Reading
Mumbai, June 14, 2019: A group of mental health professionals from Mumbai spent a week in Colombo early June to train 45 priests, nuns and doctors in the art of reprocessing painful memories. The memories pertain to Easter Sunday on April 21, when suicide bombers targeted three churches and threeContinue Reading
Colombo, June 2, 2019: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi plans to visit St. Anthony’s Church, venue of the first bomb blast site in Colombo, during his official visit to the island nation on June 9. The Indian premier’s Sri Lanka visit was announced by Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena onContinue Reading
Sunnyvale, May 31, 2019: In the heart of Silicon Valley, an Indian-American teenager with severe brain injuries brought Hindus, Muslims, and Sikhs together as part of a rainbow coalition of ethnic, religious, and immigrant networks, on May 29. The Hindu American Foundation (HAF), the Islamic Networks Group, and the SikhContinue Reading
By Tom Chennatt Birmingham, May 21, 2019: “Science is the future,” 10-year-old Ryan Vincent responded when asked why he likes science during a felicitation ceremony at the end of the annual conference of URUK (United Rationalists of UK). He was among 16 young people felicitated for producing videos of 2-3Continue Reading
Mumbai, May 19, 2019: Six members of a family from Maharashtra’s Beed district have been swept away in flash floods in the Gulf nation of Oman where they had gone on a visit, Mumbai Police said Monday. The mishap occurred on Saturday when the family of Khairulla Khan, a retiredContinue Reading
Rome, May 16, 2019: Galactic halos, that is. Not the angelic variety. It’s enthralling to the Vatican Observatory astronomer that those halos of stars that have fallen into one galaxy from another during collisions and mergers can provide clues to a galaxy’s multibillion-year history. Father Richard D’Souza, an Indian post-doctoralContinue Reading
New Delhi, May 15, 2019: Retired Supreme Court judge Justice Madan Lokur has become the first judge from the Indian apex court to be appointed to Fiji’s Supreme Court. “I have been invited by the Chief Justice of the Fiji Supreme Court to be a part of the apex courtContinue Reading