By Matters India Reporter Ranchi: A group of Catholic priests and nuns engaged in social action at grassroots has resolved to oppose any government policy that undermines the secular character of the country’s democracy. For this, they will collaborate with like-minded groups that want to India to continue to treatContinue Reading
Kohima: Union minister of State for Home Affairs, Kiren Rijiju has rubbished opponents charge of BJP being “anti-Christian” in the state and said his party was clear that the interest of Christians have to be protected at all cost. Addressing an election rally in poll-bound Nagaland on February 19, RijijuContinue Reading
Kohima:At a time when political parties in Nagaland are promising religious grants to woo voters in the Christian-majority state, the community representatives have claimed people here are largely “unfazed” by such campaigns. Nagaland is set to go to polls on Fenruary 27 and the results will be announced on MarchContinue Reading
The Central government has identified 11,044 women manual scavengers and claims to have rehabilitated over 88 per cent of them. These scavengers are scattered in 13 states, and more than 94 per cent of them (10,449) live in Uttar Pradesh alone. Others are spread across Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Chhattisgarh,Continue Reading
Chennai: A year ago, a seven-year-old girl was raped and murdered and her body was burnt by a neighbour who had a puppy she liked to play with at an apartment complex near Chennai. S Daswant, a 23-year-old engineer, was sentenced to death today by a court in Tamil Nadu’sContinue Reading
Guwahati: Assam has 3,62,450 landless families in 31 of its 33 districts with Tinsukia in Upper Assam topping the list, forest minister Pramila Rani Brahma said on Monday. According to statistics tabled in the Assembly, Tinsukia, Margherita and Sadiya subdivisions in Tinsukia have the maximum of 59,632 landless families, followedContinue Reading
Guwahati: The Assam government on Monday said 29,223 incidents of violence against women were reported from various parts of the state in the past two years. In a written reply to a query by Congress MLA Nandita Das, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Chandra Mohan Patowary told the Assembly that 8,771 casesContinue Reading
The alleged rape of a 5-year-old occurred on February 12Continue Reading
Monopoly given to any party tempts them to become evilContinue Reading
Kochi: “I saw a light engulfing the world, and within this light I found answers to questions which have been haunting me for years,” said Betty Alex, as she lay blindfolded in a conference hall. It may sound crazy to some. But people who have a spiritual bent of mind,Continue Reading
