By Bindu Shajan Perappadan New Delhi, July 21, 2020: A total of 104 doctors have died because of Covid-19-related complications until July 13 across India, states a paper from the president of the Indian Medical Association in Cochin. Another four deaths of doctors — three of them in road accidentsContinue Reading
Vatican City, Jul 20, 2020: The Vatican said on July 20 that in very exceptional circumstances and with special permission, lay Catholics can be allowed to perform marriage rites. In a document issued by the Holy See office for clergy, the Vatican said that could only happen if there areContinue Reading
Vatican City, July 20, 2020: Pope Francis has named Italian surgeon Giovanni Battista Doglietto as director of the Vatican health fund known as Fondo di Assistenza Sanitaria (FAS). The July 19 appointment follows the departure of the previous FAS director Stefano Loreti, who held the position since January 2017. Doglietto,Continue Reading
C.M. Paul Kolkata, July 20, 2020 : A pioneer educationist who brought free Don Bosco education to Kolkata’s slum children died on July 19 in a hospital in the eastern Indian city. Salesian Father Joseph Aymanathil is the first Catholic priest to die in Kolkata archdiocese and the fifth inContinue Reading
Kochi, July 20, 2020: The Syro-Malabar Church has a new center in Rome to serve its faithful and coordinate activities in the eternal city. Cardinal Angelo de Donatis, the vicar general Pope Francis for the diocese of Rome, issued a decree on July 8 to hand over Santa Anastasia MinorContinue Reading
Kolkata, July 19, 2020: Bengal’s National Highway 31, which connects state capita Kolkata to Siliguri, turned into a battlefield on July 19 after locals blocked the road to protest the alleged gangrape and murder of a school girl. The protest took place at Chopra, around 500 km north of Kolkata.Continue Reading
By Azmathulla Shariff Bengaluru, July 18, 2020: As a journalist with a regional news channel, I was a mute recipient of the Coronavirus crisis news like other journalistic fraternity across India. Initially, the pandemic impact was ignored by the Government of India as they were busy toppling the legally electedContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Mumbai, July 18, 2020: Shaison P Ouseph represented India at the third International Youth Summit 2020 (online), conducted by WSDA (Workplace Skills Development Academy), New Zealand. Shaison is an internationally acclaimed, award winning documentary filmmaker based in Mumbai, and is the course head for Film TelevisionContinue Reading
Guwahati, July 18,2020: The Council of Nagalim Churches, a body under the National Socialist Council of Nagalim (Isak-Muivah), has said that the “constant” raids, harassment, arrest and killing of the outfit’s members had put the ongoing peace talks at stake. The NSCN (I-M) on July 15 referred to the peaceContinue Reading
New Delhi, July 18, 2020: A committee deputed by the Delhi Minority Commission to probe the recent Delhi riots has blamed the “divisive and communal speeches” of certain leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party for the violence that killed at least 53 people. The nine-member committee headed by M RContinue Reading
