By Shiba Kurien Abu Dhabi, Feb 17, 2020: A 32-year-old Indian working for a logistics company in Abu Dhabi died on February 16, a week after he saved his wife from fire in their apartment. Anil Ninan from Kerala was in the bedroom on February 9 when he heard hisContinue Reading
Kolkata, Feb. 17, 2020: Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu on Feb 16 said India is known for unity in diversity, pluralistic ethos and peaceful co-existence of all religions. This ethos should be nurtured and there should be no discrimination based on gender or differences between people, he said at anContinue Reading
The revenue of China’s wedding industry has declined since the outbreak of the novel coronavirus as many couples were forced to postpone their weddings during Chinese Spring Festival. According to a Global Times report, industry analysts and business sources said that foreign marriage companies that conducted and managed the marriageContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Bengaluru, Feb 17, 2020: Cardinal Oswald Gracias, Archbishop of Bombay, on February 17 reelected president of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India for a second term. The election took place on the fifth day of the conferences’ 34 plenary assembly at John’s Medical College in Bengaluru,Continue Reading
Moscow, February 16, 2020: An attacker injured two people in a Moscow Orthodox church with a knife on Feb 16 before being arrested, police said, adding they were not treating the incident as terrorism. The man came running into the altar area of the church in central Moscow and stabbedContinue Reading
By Sumeyya Ilanbey Victoria, Feb 16, 2020: Laws requiring clergy to report child abuse to authorities — even if it’s heard in the confession box — will come into effect on February 17, ending the “special treatment” for Victoria’s religious institutions. The seal has now been lifted for the suspectedContinue Reading
Mumbai, Feb 16, 2020: Thousands of people, including several Christians, gathered at Azad Maidan in Mumbai to oppose the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA), the proposed National Register of Citizens (NRC) and the National Population Register (NPR). This was the second mass gathering witnessed by Mumbai after the August Kranti MaidanContinue Reading
Bengaluru, Feb 16, 2020: Shashi Tharoor, a former federal minister and current Member of Parliament, has stressed greater allocation of GDP for health to help the poor and improve health facilities across India. Tharoor said this on February 15 while addressing the 56th annual convocation and college day of StContinue Reading
By P. A. Chacko Sahibganj, Feb 16, 2020: Sorry for this interruption. Granted that you will soft-land in Ahmedabad on February 24, we wish you a comfortable stay. We shall make sure that you will be cordoned off from all urban Naxals (Maoists) and slum dwellers. In order to provideContinue Reading
By C V Joseph Bengaluru, Feb. 16, 2020: Any kind of discrimination that separates people of this great nation on the basis of religion cannot be accepted, India’s Catholic bishops asserted on February 15, the fourth day of their 34 plenary assembly in Bengaluru. The bishops, who belong to threeContinue Reading
