By Abisha Aseervatham Hyderabad, July 19, 2023: A “Postcard Campaign” was launched in Telangana to advocate for the expansion of Employee’s State Insurance (ESI) to all workers in the unorganized sector. The campaign was initiated by the Montfort Social Institute (MSI) in Hyderabad, capital of Telangana, in partnership with theContinue Reading
By Jose Kavi New Delhi, July 18, 2023: Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Cardinal George Alencherry, head of the Syro-Malabar Church, on July 18 joined political and religious leaders to mourn the death of Oommen Chandy, who served the southern Indian state of Kerala as its chief minister twice. ChandyContinue Reading
By Sandra Elizabeth Joseph New Delhi, July 18, 2023: The debate around the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) has once again come to the fore, with minority religious organizations, political parties, and women’s rights groups having expressed their opposition towards the proposed introduction of the code. It is being reported thatContinue Reading
By Tejaswi Ravinder Battala Hyderabad, July 18, 2023: About five years after the nine-judge bench of the Supreme Court declared the Right to Privacy as a fundamental right in KS Puttuswamy v. Union of India, the Union Cabinet has formally approved the Digital Personal Data Protection Bill. Speaking unequivocally ofContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, July 17, 2023: Attempts by the Madhya Pradesh police to profile Christian missionaries have kicked up a controversy in the central Indian state where religious conversion is a hot issue. Father Alfred D’Souza, the newly appointed public relation officer of the Catholic Church inContinue Reading
By M L Satyan Bengaluru, July 17, 2023: During the last week certain YouTube video footages have touched my heart and stirred many thoughts and questions in my mind. The video footages from Himachal Pradesh, a popular tourist destination, showed flash floods, collapsing houses, breaking bridges, vanishing roads, landslides, floodContinue Reading
By chhotebhai Kanpur, July 17, 2023: Though a creature of the day, I am not particularly enthused by various “Days” like Father’s, Mother’s, Doctor’s, Constipation. I suspect that in the era of greeting cards (now extinct) they were invented by manufacturers like Archies, to promote their wares. However, I gotContinue Reading
By M L Satyan Bengaluru, July 14, 2023: A family known to me fought a property-related case for almost 15 years. The family consisted of aged parents and three sons. The sons were married and well-settled. Yet, they had an eye on the family property of 20 acres of land.Continue Reading
By Thomas Scaria Bangalore, July 16, 2023: Archbishop Peter Machado of Bangalore has urged Christian of all denominations to stand united in solidarity with the people of Manipur and press for justice. Addressing a united Christian rally in Bengaluru, capital of Karnataka state July 15, the archbishop insisted that everyContinue Reading
By Anny Gomes Pauline Publications, Bandra, Mumbai 400050, pp186, 2023, Rs 250 There is a saying “Don’t judge a book by the cover,” but with the book “You Can” by John Mason this maxim is challenged. “You can” is a book which gives us the wisdom of harnessing the powerContinue Reading
