By Rina Chandran Shillong, Jan 31, 2020: Tribal people in northeastern India are increasingly becoming landless and poor as their traditional farming practices are abandoned in favor of commercial plantations, experts warned on Jan 31. “Jhum” is the practice by tribal groups in the northeastern states of rotating land useContinue Reading
Bengaluru, Jan 31, 2020: Days after a sedition case was slapped against a school in Karnataka, its headmistress and a student’s mother have been arrested for alleged involvement in staging of a drama portraying Prime Minister Narendra Modi in poor light over the CAA and NRC. The police action onContinue Reading
Stockholm, Jan 31, 2020: Teen climate activist Greta Thunberg and the global protest movement “Fridays for Future” were nominated on January 30 for the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize by two Swedish lawmakers. “Greta Thunberg is a climate activist, and the main reason she deserves the Nobel Peace Prize is thatContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Chiang Mai, Jan 31, 2020: The Christian Conference of Asia (CCA) organized a regional consultation to intensify interfaith HIV and AIDS advocacy collaborations in Asia. Held at the CCA headquarters from January 27–31, twenty-five participants representing different faith-based organizations and religions from Asia as well asContinue Reading
Pune, Jan 31, 2020: Vidya Bal, stalwart social activist, feminist writer and journalist, who was a tireless crusader for gender equality, died at a private nursing home in Pune on January 30. She was 83. According to sources, she was unwell for the past month and had been undergoing treatment.Continue Reading
New Delhi, Jan 31, 2020: A Delhi court on January 31 postponed the execution of death warrants of the four Nirbhaya case convicts until further orders. The four extracted another last-minute reprieve hours before they were to hang on February 1. Nirbhaya’s mother Asha Devi wept as she said thatContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, Jan 31, 2020: Father Anand Muttungal, former spokesperson of the Catholic Church in Madhya Pradesh, has been released from judicial custody after 50 days. Father Muttungal was released on January 30 from a jail in Bhopal, capital of the central Indian state. Friends andContinue Reading
Panaji, Jan 30, 2020: Officials of a Church-backed NGO and a human rights’ body, which had organized an anti-CAA rally in Goa, have been booked under sections of the Goa Children’s Act and the Juvenile Justice Act. The First Information Report filed on January 30 at the Goa Police WomenContinue Reading
By Teesta Setalvad “By Ram Rajya I do not mean Hindu Raj. I mean by Ramarajya Divine Raj, Khuda ki Basti or the Kingdom of God on Earth” Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi[1] At the heart of the visceral animosity that the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), Hindu Mahasabha (HMS) and all theContinue Reading
Geneva, Jan 30, 2020: Coronavirus has been declared a global emergency by the World Health Organization, as the outbreak continues to spread outside China. “The main reason for this declaration is not what is happening in China but what is happening in other countries,” said WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.Continue Reading
