By Fr. Cedric Prakash SJ Ahmedabad, May 2, 2020: ‘World Press Freedom Day’ (May 3) in India is a day of reckoning: a time for stock-taking and for soul-searching; to realise the abysmal depths to which the ‘press’ has fallen in the country and the way several journalists have stoopedContinue Reading
By M L Satyan Bengaluru, May 2, 2020: In the wake of Covid-19, both central and state governments agreed in principle to give a cash relief ranging from one thousand to six thousand rupees to the marginal farmers, migrant laborers and economically backward people. In reality, a vast majority ofContinue Reading
New Delhi, May 2, 2020: Lokpal member Justice Ajay Kumar Tripathi has died after contracting coronavirus, sources said. He was admitted to AIIMS in Delhi on April 2. He was 62. His daughter and cook, who had also tested positive for COVID-19, have recovered, sources said. A former Chief JusticeContinue Reading
By M K George, SJ Jamshedpur, May 2, 2020: The Sars-Cov-2, Coronavirus Covid-19 is, experts say, like no other virus, in its speed, stealth and virulence. As everyone knows it is a test for everything and everyone – healthcare infrastructure, disaster management ability, response and responsibility of governments as wellContinue Reading
Hyderabad, May 2, 2020: India’s richest Hindu temple of Lord Venkateshwara in Andhra Pradesh’s Chittoor district decided to let go off 1,300 contractual workers citing the suspension of work and inability to renew contracts during the ongoing nationwide lockdown. The discontinuation of service was announced on May 1 by theContinue Reading
New Delhi, May 2, 2020: Dr Geetanjali Chopra has had an enviable career graph. She is a graduate in journalism from Lady Shri Ram College for Women, Delhi University, and has a master’s degree in international relations from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi. She has also done M PhilContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, May 2, 2020: The All India Catholic Union, the largest Laity movement in Asia, has urged the federal government to devise a comprehensive safety net to help the poor face future calamities. The century-old union wants the government to launch a National Social SecurityContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Palai, May 2, 2020: Auxiliary Bishop Jacob Muricken of Palai has written to the Vatican seeking permission to leave bishopric so that he could lead a strict ascetic life, reports a news portal that claims to have spoken to the prelate. This is the first timeContinue Reading
Rome, May 2, 2020: When the coronavirus lockdown left a group of transgender sex workers in a beach town near Rome without work, they turned to a local Catholic priest for help to buy food. But his parish’s resources were already stretched by the health crisis so he turned toContinue Reading
By Nazish Hussain Jaipur, May 2, 2020: A senior rights activist has overcome the entrenched casteism as well as deep-seated patriarchy as well in Rajasthan, one of the five Indian states with the worst record for atrocities against Dalits. Suman Devathiya is a part of Dalit Women Fight, a movementContinue Reading
