Hisar, May 12, 2020: Three children were run over by a goods train in front of their families in Haryana’s Hisar on May 12. All three, who had gone to the tracks to play, died. The incident took place on the Hisar-Sirsa rail tracks when the children moved onto theContinue Reading
By Jessy Joseph New Delhi, May 12, 2020: Dony Dennis does not know why his mother does not hug him anymore. “Mamma, don’t you love me as before? Am I not your little beloved son? When will you hug me again?” the 11-year-old has kept asking Rosamma Dennis since herContinue Reading
By Alisha Haridasani Gupta May 12, 2020: When the HBO series “Sex and the City” first arrived on TV screens in 1998, sex had become “the reigning political story,” according to the writer Julie Salamon. The show was a product and a catalyst of a zeitgeist in which financially independentContinue Reading
By Mansi Singh Aligarh, May 12, 2020: A large number of people took to social media after the recent Boy’s Locker room incident to express their rage and anger and to play their part in confronting the problem. But a question of concern here is, “Is this locker room incidentContinue Reading
By Varghese Alengaden Indore, May 12, 2020: Newspapers, TV and social media are full of stories of the plight of migrant workers stranded in various parts of India. Deaths of workers on the highways and railway tracks because of accidents and hunger have become daily news. Media also carry storiesContinue Reading
By John Dayal New Delhi, May 12, 2020: Of course there were nurses by any other name in Islamic countries, and in India before St Thomas. Midwives, Dhais and others brought our grandparents into the world. But caste and patriarchy prevented women in modern India taking up nursing as aContinue Reading
By Alok Pandey Lucknow, May 11, 2020: Om Prakash was on a 1,000-km journey to his home in Bihar’s Saran. The 20-year-old construction worker in Uttar Pradesh’s Greater Noida walked 200 km to reach Agra where he found a truck driver willing to take him to Lucknow, 350 km ahead,Continue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Yangon, May 11, 2020: Federation of Asian Bishops’ Conferences president Cardinal Charles Maung Bo has urged people of all religions to support the appeal of religious leaders to set aside May 14 for “fasting, prayers and supplications.” “I want to encourage all to live this timeContinue Reading
May 10, 2020: A Christian nurse has shared her experience of working on a Covid-19 ward during the pandemic. Former United Reformed Church Youth Moderator, Katie Henderson, voluntarily switched from working on a paediatric ICU ward to an adult ICU coronavirus ward after she felt led by God to helpContinue Reading
New Delhi, May 11, 2020: Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who was taken to Delhi’s All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) on March 10 after he reportedly complained of chest pain, is under observation and doing okay, an official from his office said. Singh’s office later confirmed that theContinue Reading
