May 11, 2020: Israel has named a street in Tel Aviv after celebrated Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore as a tribute on his 159th birthday. On May 7, the Israeli Embassy in India tweeted a photo of a signboard where the street was named Rehov Tagore; ‘rehov’ means street. “We honorContinue Reading
Panaji, May 11, 2020: Archbishop Filipe Neri Ferrão of Goa has urged his faithful to help migrant laborers going home after being rendered jobless because of the nationwide lockdown. “We are all going through troubled times, caused by the unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic and we need to recognize among those whoContinue Reading
Meerut, May 10, 2020: It’s a tale of two Sundays, 163 years apart. Once again, a battle has forced one of the oldest churches in northern India to shut down for almost two months. The last time the British-built St John’s Church shut doors was in 1857 when the firstContinue Reading
Kottayam, May 9, 2020: For Aneela Mathew, after almost 75 days of hectic work in the IT department at a bank in Bahrain, it was a keenly awaited trip back home. But to reach her home in Kerala’s Kottayam it will take many more days, as she is now putContinue Reading
New Delhi, May 9, 2020: The Delhi Sikh Gurudwara Management Committee (DSGMC) on May 9 announced an insurance cover of 200,000 rupees for its employees in the forefront of the coronavirus fight in case of death due to the disease. As the country battles the COVID-19 pandemic, the DSGMC hasContinue Reading
Chennai, May 8, 2020: The reopening of liquor shops has led to the death of four people in various parts of Tamil Nadu, southern India. A girl is fighting for her life in a hospital. Tirunelveli district police arrested a 42-year-old man for hacking his mother to death in anContinue Reading
Patna, May 8, 2020: A legal notice has been issued to a private hospital in Patna for discriminating patients on the basis of faith. Tabish Sharfuddin, a Patna High Court advocate, sent the notice on May 7 after Saroj Hospital in Kankarbagh, a Patna suburb, refused to admit a MuslimContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, May 8, 2020: Social activists in India on May 8 expressed anguish over the death of 16 people after a train ran over a group of migrant laborers in the Aurangabad district of Maharashtra. “Saddened deeply. It’s a clear sign of cruel discrimination ofContinue Reading
By Don Aguiar Mumbai, May 8, 2020: The first thing that disappeared was the annoying sound of a power drill up the street, from a house under construction. Then the newspapers. Then the fruit sellers, the taxis, the rickshaws, and chicken. Day by day, life under coronavirus lockdown took awayContinue Reading
By M Zulqernain Lahore, May 8, 2020: Religious minorities in Pakistan, including Hindus and Christians, continued to suffer in 2019, facing forced conversions and persecution under the blasphemy laws, according to the country’s human rights commission. The Human Right Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) said that religious minorities remained unable toContinue Reading
