By Matters India Reporter Jamtailbari: The International Indigenous peoples Day was celebrated at Sorojini Tea garden at Jamtailbari in Unakoti District, Tripura, a northeastern Indian state. Around 700 people from Oraon, Munda, Kharia and Santal tribes participated in the August 9 program organized by All Adivasi Students Association, Tripura (AASAT),Continue Reading
By Manoj Varghese Mumbai: Anson Thomas, a national-level hockey player-turned-customs officer-turned-social activist- turned-film actor speaks to Manoj Varghese about his challenges and the plans ahead. Indian Currents portrays his work, as Anti-Human trafficking Day was observed on 30th July. A biopic on Anson Thomas, who has given sleepless nights toContinue Reading
By Nora D’Souza Merai Mumbai: I would like to share the role played by late Jesuit Father Fonseca and his Snehasadan (abode of love) in my life. It was in 1975 and I was in the fifth grade awaiting my results. I was then living with my uncle and hisContinue Reading
Rome: An envelope containing three bullets addressed to Pope Francis was intercepted in Milan late on Aug. 8, according to Italian media reports. The piece of mail, which had no return address but carried a French stamp, was addressed to “The Pope, Vatican City, St. Peter’s Square in Rome,” theContinue Reading
New Delhi: The Delhi Police on Aug 9 said they registered a first information report (FIR) in connection with a video in which some people are seen raising communal and inflammatory slogans near Jantar Mantar in central Delhi on Aug. 8. The video was circulated on social media with allegationsContinue Reading
Palakkad: At a nondescript hospital in Agali, in the tribal hamlet of Attappadi, people wait patiently to see Doctor V Narayanan. A pediatrician by specialization, the 47-year-old doubles up as the physician for the people there. And the fee is for the patients to decide. Having started serving those inContinue Reading
Kochi: To call Father Prashanth Palakkappilly a friend of nature is an understatement. Throughout his career as the principal of Sacred Heart College, in Kochi’s Thevara suburb, since 2010, he was known to use a bicycle to travel short distances, trying to inculcate a sense of ecological responsibility among hisContinue Reading
Jerusalem: Archaeologists from the Israeli Antiquities Authority believe they have found remnants of an earthquake that hit Jerusalem, the ancient capital of the kingdom of Judah 2,800 years ago. The earthquake is mentioned in the books of Zechariah and Amos. Zechariah 14:5 reads: “You will flee as you fled fromContinue Reading
New Delhi: New research conducted by the London School of Economics and Political Science has collected data to argue that minorities Muslim and Christian populations in India face an imminent threat by discrimination and racial violence that needs to be dealt with. The research was commissioned by an organization knownContinue Reading
Dhaka: The police have arrested 10 people in connection with a case of vandalism of four temples, several idols, six shops and some houses of Hindu people in Shiali village of Rupsha Upazila in southern Khulna, a senior police official confirmed on Aug. 8. The incident took place on Aug.Continue Reading
