By Matters India Reporter Patna, Sept 14, 2020: A massive foreign direct investment is coming to India in the near future and only those who can handle technology will benefit, a technology expert predicted at a webinar organized by a Jesuit college in Patna, Bihar. “Every job now having aContinue Reading
By Fr Cedric Prakash Ahmedabad, Sept 14, 2020: The past couple of weeks, particularly these first days of September, have been a defining period in the history of India. It is no longer about the ‘writing is on the wall;’ it is much beyond, not any more a reality show,Continue Reading
Vasco, Sept 13, 2020: A parish in Goa has urged the state government to return a lake it had given to a municipal corporation for beautification. “The Vaddem Lake belongs to the Church,” says Father Gabriel Coutinho, parish priest of St Andrew’s Church of Vasco. In a letter sent onContinue Reading
By M L Satyan Bengaluru, Sept 13, 2020: In January this year, a Bengaluru-based NGO conducted a baseline survey among the migrant workers who were mainly from Bihar, UP and Odisha. Out of the 100 men interviewed, 20 men did not know to write their names. They also could notContinue Reading
By Varghese Alengaden Indore, Sept 13, 2020: Four decades ago as a student of philosophy I was shocked to learn the expression, “God is dead” by Friedrich Nietzsche, a 19th century German philosopher. Seeing the addiction of people to religion and its innumerable rituals another German philosopher Karl Marx said,Continue Reading
Gaya, Sept 13, 2020: A man has carved out a three-kilometre canal to take rainwater from nearby hills to fields of his village, Kothilawa in Lahthua area of Gaya in Bihar. “It took me 30 years to dig this canal which takes the water to a pond in the village,”Continue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Jaipur, Sept 13, 2020: A mob of religious fanatics has threatened a Christian pastor in in the northwestern Indian state of Rajasthan, Persecution Relief reported September 13. According to the inter-denominational organization dedicated to helping the Church in India, the mob on September 11 gathered outsideContinue Reading
Chennai, Sept 13, 2020: Four students, who had to appear for the highly competitive NEET (National Eligibility cum Entrance Test), committed suicide the first week of September in Tamil Nadu. The entrance exam for medical courses was held September 13 across the country amid a surge in coronavirus cases. TwoContinue Reading
By Sowmiya Ashok Chennai, September 13, 2020: Pratik Mammode, a doctor, has spent much of the past year on the front lines of India’s fight against the coronavirus. Until recently, the 26-year-old junior resident doctor had been on Covid-19 duties, donning and doffing personal protective equipment day in, day outContinue Reading
By Sujata Jena Bhubaneswar, Sept 13, 2020: Kandhamal never again, never anywhere, asserted a webinar organized by the National Solidarity Forum (NSF) amid rising hate crimes in India. Kandhamal, a district in the eastern Indians state of Odisha, in 2008 witnessed unprecedented anti-Christian violence that claimed more than 100 livesContinue Reading
