Ram Puniyani In Karakthal village in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, a Dalit youth was recently thrashed for daring to sport a moustache. In Chikkmagaluru, Karnataka, a Dalit youngster was tortured and subjected to degrading treatment in police custody. In Madhya Pradesh, the wife of a Dalit labourer, five months pregnant, was rapedContinue Reading
Kochi: After the Kerala High Court on May 28 quashed state “Government Orders, sub-classifying the minorities by providing merit-cum-means scholarship at 80 percent to Muslim community and 20 percent to Latin Catholic Christians and Converted Christians,” and saying “it cannot be legally sustained,” Muslims from the southern Indian state haveContinue Reading
In an interview with Vatican News, the Australian Cardinal who turns 80 today relives the experience he had during thirteen months of detention recounted in his book “Prison Journal”. “It helped me to live my sufferings by associating them with those of Jesus. I have always believed that God wasContinue Reading
By Purushottam Nayak Rayagada: An alleged group of Hindu extremists have chased away Christians from a village in Odisha after destroying their houses. The incident occurred on June 8 at Sikapai village in Rayagada district. The village has some 40 families, including 8 Christian. Upajukta Singh, the village pastor, saidContinue Reading
By Patrick Hansda New Delhi: Bahdur Bhai says he is alive because two Catholic nuns had come to his village in Gujarat, a western Indian state, when he was struggle with Covid-19. After the resident of Retna village in Surat district complained of fever and other ailments his relatives tookContinue Reading
New Delhi: Punjab, Tamil Nadu, and Kerala topped the national school index with Meghalaya and Ladakh at the bottom, the Union education ministry said. Five states and Union territories scored more than 90% for the first time and reached Level-2 or Grade I++ in the performance grading index (PGI) forContinue Reading
New Delhi: A huge swathe of national and international news sites crashed on June 8 night including the New York Times, CNN and the BBC. Many sites were offline for up to an hour after an issue affecting their cloud platform technology. In New Zealand, TVNZ OnDemand, RNZ and TradeContinue Reading
New Delhi: The Supreme Court has directed the states and Union Territories (UTs) to take stringent action against individuals and NGOs who invite people to illegally adopt children orphaned by the COVID-19 pandemic. A Bench of Justices L. Nageswara Rao and Aniruddha Bose, in an 18-page order published on JuneContinue Reading
Kochi: The Kerala Catholic Bishops’ Council (KCBC) on June 8 welcomed the decision of the federal government to offer free coronavirus vaccines to all above the age of 18. Describing the decision as “very timely in securing the well-being of the people of India,” KCBC president Cardinal George Alencherry saidContinue Reading
New Delhi: A 10-year-old schoolgirl from Kerala has written to Chief Justice of India N.V. Ramana, saying how “happy and proud” she felt to see the Supreme Court make vital interventions to alleviate the sufferings of her fellow citizens in the grip of the pandemic. Chief Justice Ramana told LidwinaContinue Reading
