New Delhi: Taking note of a plea by some fishermen seeking compensation, the Supreme Court Aug. 19 directed the Kerala High Court not to disburse any amount from ₹ 2 crore earmarked for the owner of fishing boat ”St Antony” in which two fishermen were killed by Italian marines inContinue Reading
Mumbai: Late tribal rights activist father Stan Swamy’s lawyer has written to the Bombay High Court urging it to “clear his name and reputation” in the Elgar Parishad-Maoist links case. Swamy, a Jesuit priest-turned-activist, died in hospital on July 5, 2021. Senior counsel Mihir Desai earlier this week wrote aContinue Reading
The Gujarat High Court (HC), in an interim order on Aug. 19, stayed some sections pertaining to interfaith marriages of the newly enacted anti-conversion law in the State. A division bench of the court stayed the implementation of several sections of the Gujarat Freedom of Religion (Amendment) Act, 2021. TheContinue Reading
By Vivek Joseph Hyderabad: A nationwide network of workers organizations on August 19 launched helpline to provide legal aid and redressal for workers in the unorganized-sector in Hyderabad and four other cities in India. The Hyderabad launch took place at the opening of the Telangana chapter of Working People’s CharterContinue Reading
By Jose Torres Jr, LiCAS.news Manila: Christians in Afghanistan have expressed fear over an uncertain future under Taliban rule, with their leaders saying it is just a matter of time before attacks would start. “We are telling people to stay in their houses because going out now is too dangerous,”Continue Reading
New Delhi: Om Prakash Chautala, former Haryana chief minister, has taken the tenth grade English exam. The 86-year-old politician sat for the exam on August 18 at Arya Kanya Senior Secondary School in Sirsa, a town in the northern Indian state, some 265 km northwest of New Delhi. Chautala hadContinue Reading
By Ladislaus Louis D’Souza Mumbai: The biggest pandemic-lockdown casualty, the grisly death toll apart, is the Church’s liturgical celebration. From viewing Mass on TV or computer screens being just that, ‘viewing’/‘watching,’ to fulfilling the Sunday obligation by doing precisely that, our faith perspective in relation to the Liturgy has undergoneContinue Reading
By Felix Anthony Guwahati: Lack of professionalism often takes the Church’s media advocacy in the wrong direction, admits the Indian head of the international forum for Catholic media persons. Church media persons also suffer from lack of passion and misplaced priorities, Father Stanly Kozhichira, the president of Signis India, toldContinue Reading
By Ram Puniyani Mumbai: We mourn with the Afghan people their double tragedy. The first tragedy—the US’s illegal and utterly unjustified military invasion twenty years ago—helped prepare the ground for today’s tragedy, the accession to power of the Islamo-fanatical Taliban. Condemnation of the latter must not mean any softening ofContinue Reading
Colombo: Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith of Colombo has called on the people to demonstrate August 21 to protest what he described as the government’s failure to shed light on the 2019 Easter Sunday bombings. “Raise a black flag on August 21 in front of your homes, institutions and market places asContinue Reading
