New Delhi: The Supreme Court on February 9 protected Congress leader Shashi Tharoor and six journalists from arrest in connection cases related to tractor rally on Republic Day. Multiple sedition First Information Reports were registered against them for allegedly tweeting and sharing unverified news that a young farmer died atContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi: The Supreme Court has stayed the Rajasthan High Court order on school fees on pleas from Catholic schools and others in the western Indian state. The apex court gave the interim order on February 8 while holding a joint hearing on the Special LeaveContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi: The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India (CBCI) has expressed its grief over the Uttarakhand glacier calamity and offered its condolences to the family members of those who have died or are missing in the incident. The death toll from the disaster rose to 28Continue Reading
New Delhi: Two teams of glaciologists will head to Joshimath-Tapovan to study the causes of massive flood caused after a part of the Nanda Devi glacier broke off in Uttarakhand’s Chamoli district, the director of the Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology said. Kalachand Sain said two teams of glaciologists –Continue Reading
Indore: A day after the Supreme Court granted him ad-interim bail, stand-up comedian Munawar Faruqui has been released from Indore jail. Faruqui was among five people arrested on January 2 for allegedly hurting religious sentiments. Upon his release from prison, Munawar Faruqui said, “I would not want to comment aboutContinue Reading
Chamoli: Seven people were killed and 170 missing on February 7, after a glacier break in Uttarakhand’s Chamoli district triggered massive flooding. Another report said ten bodies have died. Many villages were evacuated as floods of the Alaknanda and Dhauliganga rivers swept away five bridges, damaged homes and the nearbyContinue Reading
Vatican City: Pope Francis prayed Feb 7 for justice and national stability in Burma as tens of thousands protest the Feb. 1 military coup. “These days I am following with great concern the developments of the situation that has arisen in Myanmar,” the pope said Feb. 7, using the country’sContinue Reading
Beijing: For a while China’s government has signaled concern that the country’s most popular male role models are no longer strong, athletic figures like “army heroes”. Even President Xi Jinping, a well-known football enthusiast, has long been seeking to cultivate better sports stars. So last week, the education ministry issuedContinue Reading
Vatican City: Pope Francis February 6 appointed a Spanish priest and a French religious sister as under-secretaries of the Synod of Bishops. It is the first time a woman has held a position of this level within the general secretariat of the Synod of Bishops. Father Luis Marín de SanContinue Reading
By M.K. George Rome: ‘We must reject the culture in which facts themselves are manipulated and even manufactured,’ said Joseph Biden, the new president of the United States. He had every reason to say so. His predecessor, Donald Trump, had made 30,573 false or misleading claims as president. Nearly halfContinue Reading
