Guwahati, Sept 13, 2020: A seven-member youth team led by an Indian has bagged the first prize in an international 48 hours virtual Hackathon. The team, ‘Mind and Health Innovations (MAHI),’ led by Deep Jyoti Gurung from Assam, won the ‘MIT Covid-19 challenge: India turning the tide,’ organized by theContinue Reading
Vatican City, Sep 13, 2020: The Vatican has said it was “necessary and urgent” to return to in-person Masses as soon as anti-coronavirus measures permit. The head of the Vatican’s liturgy office, Cardinal Robert Sarah, said in a letter to bishops’ conferences that virtual liturgies, while useful, were no replacementContinue Reading
By Marcus Jones Islamabad, Sept 13, 2020: Judges in smaller courts in Pakistan are too afraid to let Christians go free in blasphemy cases because of the threat from extremists, a human rights activist says. The country prosecutes anyone who is seen to be insulting Islam – with the deathContinue Reading
By O Najiya Kannur, Sept 13, 2020: A nine-year-old orphan girl was allegedly raped by her teacher in Kannur, the northern district Kerala. The girl, a fourth grader, was allegedly raped by her teacher Padmarajan, who also happened to be a local leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party. A caseContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Patna, Sept 12, 2020: A Jesuit college in Patna, Bihar, has organized a webinar to help students and others tackle distractions during the coronavirus pandemic. “Covid-19 pandemic is making disruptions the new normal,” said Anant Kasibhatla, memory coach and a Limca Book of Record holder, wileContinue Reading
New Delhi, Sept 12, 2020: M Nageswara Rao, a former interim chief of the Central Bureau of Investigation, has stirred up a hornet’s nest with his tweet that called Swami Agnivesh’s death as “good riddance.” Agnivesh, an Arya Samaj leader who championed the rights of bonded laborers, died September 11Continue Reading
United Nations, Sept. 12, 2020: Children are worst affected as terror networks spread their tentacles across the borders and threaten peace. This was stated by India as it called on the UN member states to demonstrate a greater political will to ensure perpetrators of terrorism are held accountable for abusingContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Dhaka, Sept 12, 2020: Holy Cross Father Richard William Timm, a Magsaysay Award winner who contributed greatly to the reconstruction of newly created Bangladesh, died on September 11 in the United States. He was 97. The “Father of NGOs in Bangladesh” passed away at the HolyContinue Reading
By Stella Paul Hyderabad, Sept 12, 2020: Nobel Laureate Kailash Satyarthi warns of the danger that more than 1 million children could die, not because of the Covid-19 pandemic, but because of the economic crisis facing their families. In an exclusive interview with Inter Press Service, Satyarthi said that withoutContinue Reading
By Felix Anthony Nirjuli, Sept 12, 2020: A young woman from a small town in Arunachal Pradesh has set up a roadside ‘Street Library’ with just a rack loaded with books and couple of wooden benches for readers to sit. “It is only 10 days since we set up thisContinue Reading
