New Delhi: The Supreme Court has allowed a 13-year-old alleged rape survivor to terminate her 32-week-old pregnancy after taking note of a medical report. A bench comprising Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices Amitava Roy and A M Khanwilkar on September 6 perused the medical report filed by a boardContinue Reading
Panaji: The Goa Union of Journalists, as well a Church organisation on Wednesday, condemned the murder of journalist Gauri Lankesh. In a protest meeting organised here, Union President Kishor Naik Gaonkar said that the murder of the Bengaluru-based journalist is not an attack on an individual journalist, but an attackContinue Reading
Millions of Syrians have fled their country`s war as refugees, but for tens of thousands of people escaping conflict elsewhere, Syria is also a place of refuge. Among them is Zahraa Abdi, who fled her native Somalia in 2012 and lives in a small room with her three children inContinue Reading
Banaras Hindu University has expelled a graduate student from the hostel on the allegation that she was lesbian, and she was ‘corrupting’ other girl students. The girl is a student at BHU’s Women’s College and used to live in the hostel. The undergraduate student was expelled from the hostel facility,Continue Reading
New Delhi: The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India (CBCI) has condemned “the dastardly, brutal and cowardly” murder of the senior journalist, Gauri Lankesh, editor of the Kannada weekly, Lankesh Patrike on September 5 in Bengaluru. “We salute her for the courage with which she wrote, the conviction with which sheContinue Reading
‘Social’ travel accounts for nearly 86% of all overnight travel; travel for purposes of religion is a distant second, show NSSO survey data.Continue Reading
Her death comes two years after the assassination of M.M. Kalburgi Continue Reading
Christians were trying to appropriate a ‘Hindu’ festivalContinue Reading
Advocate Joseph Sodder plans to lodge a complaint against the church and demand seizure of the footageContinue Reading
Catholic Health Association of India (CHAI) with the CBCI Office for Health Care, with the support of Misereor, Germany conducted a national level Consultation for those who are caring for Children infected and affected by HIV, at CHAI central office Secunderabad, India on Aug 29. The Consultation workshop was heldContinue Reading