Biswanath: Little children in Assam’s Biswanath district risk their lives every day to go to school. A video of the students crossing a swift flowing river in aluminium pots grabbed attention on social media on September 28. Children in a small village called Sootea have to carry pots, big enoughContinue Reading
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By Matters India Reporter Patna: While Information Technology offers many resources for development, it is being misused as well. Hence there is need of ethical guidelines to use technology for human development. This was highlighted in a one-day seminar on Sept 29 at Arcade Business College (ABC), Danapur-Khagaul Road, Patna.Continue Reading
At least 384 people were killed, many swept away as giant waves crashed onto beaches, when a major earthquake and tsunami hit the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, authorities said on Saturday. Hundreds had gathered for a festival on the beach in the city of Palu on Friday when waves asContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Pune: The Association of Catholic Historians of India (ACHI) has chosen to deliberate on the contribution of missionaries for nation building for its forthcoming annual conference in Bangalore, next June. “The right-wing Hindu organizations such as RSS (Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh) and the pro-Hindu BJP (Bharatiya JanataContinue Reading
Dr Astrid Lobo Gajiwala The Indian Church is bleeding, and my “holy anger” is now laced with deep sorrow. Did it have to come to this? Women religious, priests and people from the pews, protesting publicly against the silence of the Indian bishops; leaders of the Missionaries of Jesus, attackingContinue Reading
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By Matters India Reporter Hyderabad: Poets, writers, environmentalists, social activists, academicians and others along with school children on September 28 marked the 110th anniversary of the flooding of Hyderabad. The day was celebrated under the iconic tamarind tree that saved 150 people who clung on to its branches to escapeContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Bettiah: Tension has gripped Bettiah, a town in Bihar’s West Champaran district, as radical groups protested the death of a student of a Catholic school in an accident. The administration has sealed the school managed by the diocese of Bettiah and brought the situation under control.Continue Reading