By Matters India Reporter Periyanayagi, April 21, 2020: Kannapiran, a 55-years beggar and a Hindu by birth, never knew, from where he would get his next meal amid the nationwide lockdown imposed due to containing the spread of COVID-19. “We do not have anything to eat. Since we do notContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Kolkata, April 21, 2020: St. Xavier’s University, Kolkata (SXUK) reached out to the neighborhood villages around the University where its students go for social outreach programmes and distributed food items – rice, dal, potatoes, and soybeans – to 300 families on April 19 and 20. TheContinue Reading
By Dr George Jacob Kochi, April 21, 2020: Kerala has proved an efficient state in tackling the coronavirus pandemic and becoming the only Indian state to flatten the flatten the Covid-19 cases. At the same it also has shown to its narrow-minded neighbors how to behave maturely at the timeContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Patna, April 21, 2020: The Patna province of Congregation of Jesus that works among those affected by lockdown in eastern India is forced to deal with other social issues too. “People were already struggling with drought and poverty when Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the nationwideContinue Reading
By Lissy Maruthanakuzhy Panaji, April 20, 2020: The lockdown. It is getting longer. We have completed one-month lockdown period. For a change I decided to try a hand on my father’s profession: gardening. He had excelled in whatever he tried out. I had watched him try new methods in hisContinue Reading
Bihar Sharif, April 20, 2020: A court in Bihar’s Nalanda district has pardoned a 16-year-old boy, detained for snatching a woman’s purse, after it was found that the accused had stolen to feed his brother and mentally-challenged mother, who were hungry for several days due to the nationwide lockdown. JuvenileContinue Reading
Melbourne, April 20, 2020: A two-year-old girl born in Australia to Tamil asylum-seeker parents was “not afforded procedural fairness” in her asylum bid, and the formerly Biloela-based family cannot be immediately deported, the federal court has decided. Justice Mark Moshinsky delivered the judgement in Melbourne April 20, with lawyers forContinue Reading
By J. Felix Raj, SJ Kolkata, April 20, 2020: More than 184 countries and territories have reported cases of Covid 19. As of April 20, the total number of affected cases in the world were 2,428,354 cases with 166,130 deaths (6.8 percent). The overall death rate is increasing every dayContinue Reading
New Delhi, April 20, 2020: The National Commission for Women, a federal body, has sought stern action against a hospital in Jharkhand that reportedly turned away a pregnant woman after accusing her of spreading coronavirus. The hospital allegedly made the woman to clean up blood that led her losing theContinue Reading
Vatican City, April 20, 2020: The process of exiting the coronavirus pandemic is a chance to eliminate inequalities and the “virus” of selfishness, Pope Francis says. The Pope said this on April 19 while offering a Mass without an audience at the Vatican City on the occasion of Mercy Sunday.Continue Reading
