New York, June 24, 2020: Owing to the increase in communal violence and hate speech in India, over a thousand Indian American civil rights organizations, academicians and human rights activists have written to US Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo requesting him to designate India as a Country of Particular ConcernContinue Reading
By Purushottam Nayak Bhubaneswar, June 25, 2020: Jishaya Nayak, a migrant worker in Kerala, southwestern India, had given up hope of returning home amid the protracted nationwide lockdown. The 23-year-old Catholic youth from Gajapati district in the eastern Indian Odisha state was among some 300 migrants stranded because of theContinue Reading
June 24, 2020: The mayor of a Dutch town has condemned vandals who defaced an image of Our Lady of Częstochowa and daubed the letters “BLM” beneath it. Paul Depla, the mayor of Breda, a city in the southern Netherlands, said the incident was “particularly sad for the Polish community,Continue Reading
London, June 24, 2020: The UK Atomic Energy Authority’s Chitra Srinivasan is among the five Indian-origin engineers to be named among the UK’s Top 50 Women in Engineering for 2020. Srinivasan, a control and software engineer at UKAEA’s fusion research lab at Culham Science Centre near Abingdon in south-east England,Continue Reading
Panaji, June 24, 2020: Archbishop Filipe Neri Ferrao of Goa on June 24, announced stringent rules, while rolling out a formal protocol for re-opening of Churches in Goa. In a circular issued to all parishes, Archbishop Ferrao advised caution in the process of re-opening of Churches for religious services, layingContinue Reading
Dhanbad , June 24, 2020: Dhanbad district administration imposed prohibitory orders in Belgarhia township on June 23 after a group of residents had on Monday night attacked a church and two of its teachers over a dispute about alleged religious conversion. Dhanbad SP (rural) Amit Renu visited the site underContinue Reading
Thiruvananthapuram, June 24,2020: Kerala police have registered a case against activist Rehana Fathima after a video of her two children drawing on her half-naked body started circulating on social media. The police registered a case, under Section 67 (electronically transmitting sexually explicit content) of IT Act, and Section 75 (punishmentContinue Reading
Wellington, Jun 23, 2020: The number of global coronavirus cases continued to surge Tuesday in many large countries that have been lifting lockdowns, including the US, even as new infections stabilized or dropped in parts of Western Europe. India has been recording about 15,000 new infections each day, and someContinue Reading
Mumbai, June 23, 2020: Prominent social activist and minority rights crusader Teesta Setalvad is among 10 prominent personalities from the world set to receive the prestigious Honorary Doctorate degree from the University of British Columbia (UBC), Canada in 2020. The activist was supposed to be present at a ceremony atContinue Reading
By Courtney Mares Rome, June 23, 2020: Sister Stan Mumuni dedicates her life to caring for abandoned children with birth defects in Ghana. When the coronavirus pandemic spread to West Africa, she said that she ran to the market to buy soap and supplies, but the prices had already tripled.Continue Reading
