Gandhinagar, May 21, 2019: Not a single student from as many as 63 schools managed to clear the Secondary School Certificate examinations conducted by the Gujarat Secondary and Higher Secondary Education Board, the results of which were declared here on Tuesday. The overall pass percentage was 66.97 per cent, slightlyContinue 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
By Doreen Ajiambo Samburu, May 21, 2019: Sister Lilly Manavalan starts her day at 6 am with a trek for over an hour across a deep valley to reach the streets in a remote region of northern Kenya where she can find vulnerable children living with HIV. On a normalContinue Reading
Ayodhya, May 21, 2019: In the holy month of Ramzan, a temple here hosted Iftar on May 20. Setting an example of communal harmony, people cutting across religious lines, sat together to relish the Iftar meal in the premises of Shri Sita Ram temple. Speaking to ANI, the priest ofContinue Reading
Yangon, May 21, 2019: Cardinal Charles Maung Bo, Archbishop of Yangon, Myanmar, President of Federation of Asian Bishop’s Conference (FABC), today expressed his compassion and prayers for the victims of Cyclone Fani that ripped through Odisha in India and Bangladesh, killing over seventy people. Cardinal Bo, who is also theContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Phulbani, May 21, 2019: Gornath Chalanseth, one of the seven Christians languishing for a decade in an Odisha jail, was released on bail granted by the Supreme Court. “My joy has no words,” Chalanseth said May 20 as his family and well-wishers accorded him an emotionalContinue Reading
By Abhirami Sasikumar The 12th grade exam results are out, and I have entered another phase in life – college. As I fill admission forms, I can’t believe that my school life is over. I feel both relief and sadness. Relief because I don’t have to get up early inContinue Reading
Kottar, May 21, 2019: Concern’s growing for Christians in India over the potential of a change to the country’s constitution. There are fears that the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) want to change the law to make India a Hindu theocratic state. Bishop Nazarene Soosai of Kottar, southern India, saysContinue 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
By Mari Marcel Thekaekara For the first time, more women than men are likely to have voted in the Indian elections. That’s more than half a billion women who have had a say on issues that really matter to them. So finally, Indian political parties seem to have woken upContinue Reading