It was three weeks ago when journalists combing obituary pages in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s home state of Gujarat found authorities were concealing Covid-19 deaths that people started asking hard questions about the real number of Indian coronavirus fatalities. Now, epidemiologists and scientists around the world are struggling to solveContinue Reading
Old Goa: The Museum of Christianity is located in the 17th-century Santa Monica Monastery in the heart of Old Goa, a beautiful district of churches, monuments and ancient monastery ruins. The church is attached to a three-story stone building. The museum is in the strait. Over the past three years,Continue Reading
By Sujata Jena India is leading the world in the number of coronavirus infections. On May 2, Reuters reported that India’s new daily COVID-19 cases passed 400,000 for the first time, as the second wave worsened. Reuters reported May 6 with information from India’s Health Ministry that a “record 412,262Continue Reading
New Delhi: Finland has been declared the world’s happiest country for the fourth year running, according to the World Happiness Report 2021 published by the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network. At the same time, India ranked 139th out of the 149 countries in the list — a slight improvementContinue Reading
Experts have expressed serious concerns over the downgrading of India’s status from ‘the world’s largest democracy to an ‘electoral autocracy’ and from a “Free Country” to a “Partly Free Country” in the international reports. They expressed their views in a group discussion held by Jamaat-e-Islami Hind (JIH) here on theContinue Reading
Persecution has been widespread across India and China even during the pandemic, but things are only likely to get worse in 2021, Release International has warned. The charity, which supports persecuted Christians worldwide, says that China has “bought the silence of the international community” through trade relations. This year hasContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Brussels: India was listed the fifth most dangerous country for journalists by the largest organization for media persons in the world. The International Federation of Journalists reports that as many as 2,658 journalists have been murdered all over the world in the past 30 years. TheContinue Reading
New Delhi: India ranked 94 among 107 nations in the Global Hunger Index 2020 and is in the ‘serious’ hunger category with experts blaming poor implementation processes, lack of effective monitoring, siloed approach in tackling malnutrition and poor performance by large states behind the low ranking. Last year, India’s rankContinue Reading
Fr. J. Felix Raj, SJFr. J. Felix Raj, SJ Kolkata, August 16, 2020: India completed 73 years as an Independent nation on August 15. With a total population of 138.13 crore as of August 7, 2020, which is 17.7 per cent of the world’s population, India is the largest democracyContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, May 13, 2020: India has become the 12th nation worst affected by Covid-19 in the world, just behind China where the pandemic first broke out. As on May 13, India recorded nearly 78,000 positive cases and more than 2,500 deaths, whereas China had someContinue Reading