By Matters India Reporter Ranchi, May 28, 2020: Several activists and students have hailed the appointment of a professor of New Delhi’s Jawaharlal Nehru University, a tribal woman, as the vice chancellor of a university in Jharkhand. Jharkhand Governor Draupadi Murmu on May 28 appointed Sonajharia Minz to head theContinue Reading
By Cyprian Ekka Ranchi, May 12, 2020: Sonia Gandhi on May 4 declared that Congress would bear the travel expenses of home-bound migrant workers, whom the federal and some stat governments were charging for the train and bus trips. This announcement rode on the public outrage that set counter agendaContinue Reading
Ranchi, Nov. 6, 2019: A mob in Jharkhand, eastern India, lynched two laborers accusing them of stealing batteries. One of them succumbed to injuries and the other was admitted to hospital in a serious condition. While Mubarak Ansari succumbed to injuries, his companion Akhter Ansari has been admitted to aContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Gumla, September 20, 2019: People’s movements in Jharkhand, where state assembly elections are due before the end of this year, have begun public awareness meetings. On September 19, a public meeting was organized under a local awareness forum in Gumla, a city some 95 km southwestContinue Reading
KOCHI, September 17 : Fr Binoy John, a Catholic priest hailing from Thodupuzha in Kerala, who was arrested by Jharkhand Police on charges of encroaching upon tribal land and forcible conversion, was on September 15 released on bail after week-long detention. Fr Binoy, son of Yohannan, ‘Vadakkedathuparambil’, Kalayanthani, Thodupuzha, hadContinue Reading
Ranchi, September 10, 2019: Jharkhand Police have dropped the murder charge against 11 accused in the death of 22-year-old Tabrez Ansari attacked by a mob four months ago in the eastern Indian state’s Saraikela-Kharsawan area. Citing the “final post-mortem report” that Ansari died of “cardiac arrest,” and that it wasContinue Reading
Gumla , July 21, 2019: Residents of a village in Jharkhand, eastern India, on July 21 lynched four tribal people, branding them as witches. The incident occurred around 3 am at Siskari village in Gumla district, around 110 km west of Ranchi, the state capital. Police said the mob draggedContinue Reading
New Delhi, June 30, 2019: A Catholic family in Jharkhand is awaiting justice for a tribal man, who was lynched by cow vigilantes in the eastern Indian state nearly two years ago, a lay leader says. The death of Ramesh Minj “did not enter the discourse of persecution of Christians,”Continue Reading
By Cyprian Ekka Ranchi, June 14, 2019: A Christian group in Jharkhand on June 14 expressed anguish over damage done to the statue of Birsa Munda, a 19th century tribal freedom fighter and martyr. The statue was damaged June 13 night allegedly by some unidentified persons. The All Christians MediaContinue Reading
By Cyprian Ekka Ranchi, May 24, 2019: A Church delegation on May 24 complained to Jharkhand Governor Draupadi Murmu that the state administration has indulged in “selective” probe into overseas funds received by Christian institutions. Scrutinizing only the Christian institutions “betrays the government’s discriminatory stance” and violates the Indian Constitution,Continue Reading