Kochi, Dec. 12, 2019: The Kerala High Court has stated that the doctors who conducted narco-analysis of the accused in the Sister Abhya murder case cannot be tried. The High Court cancelled the directive of the Thiruvananthapuram Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM) Court that the doctors should be tried. The CJMContinue Reading
Dec. 12, 2019: Greta Thunberg, the teen activist from Sweden who has urged immediate action to address a global climate crisis, was named Time magazine’s person of the year for 2019 on Wednesday. She is the youngest person to have ever received the accolade. Thunberg, 16, was lauded by TimeContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New York, December 11, 2019: Myanmar’s Cardinal Charles Bo is to address Religions for Peace (RfP) conference in New York, USA. Hundreds of religious leaders including some Asians will gather to set Global Peace Priorities, Cardinal Bo, Archbishop of Yangon and Co-President, Religions for Peace, Myanmar.Continue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Calcutta, December 12, 2019: West Bengal Regional Labour Commission organized a two-day seminar on ‘Future of Work’, December 11-12. It discussed the various issues faced by the migrants from West Bengal. Bengal Region expressed concern over the migrants who leave their homeland without proper documents. ItContinue Reading
By Rajiv Theodore New Delhi, Dec 11, 2019: Brutalization of women never seems to end, worse, there is always an upward spike in the number of such cases in the country. These shocking, almost bone-chilling incidents keep surfacing almost each day as the female gender in India face extreme violenceContinue Reading
By Amit Kumar Bhopal, Dec 11, 2019: A judicial commission that probed the largest operation against Maoists in Bastar region of Chhattisgarh state says the 2012 Sarkeguda encounter was fake. The commission chaired by Justice V K Agarwal, a retired Judge of the Madhya Pradesh High Court, reported December 11Continue Reading
By: Tina G. Santos Manila, Dec 11, 2019: A former envoy to the Holy See has expressed belief that the chance of Manila archbishop, Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle, of becoming the first Filipino Pope may have been boosted with his new appointment to a top Vatican post. “Speaking in practicalContinue Reading
Texas, Dec 11. 2019: The Indian contingent of priests serving in the archdiocese of San Antonio, Texas, celebrated Thanksgiving with Archbishop Gustavo García-Siller, at Immaculate Conception Church on November 24. Unlike the tri-monthly Indian priests’ gathering at various parishes, the celebration served the triple purpose of gratitude to God: forContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, Dec 11, 2019: A Catholic priest was arrested and sent to judicial custody in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh on December 11 for alleged forgery and cheating. Sleuths of the Economic Offence Wing (EOW), a special branch of the Madhya Pradesh policeContinue Reading
Bangladesh, Dec. 10, 2019:The Bangladeshi military has started erecting fences around camps housing hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees despite complaints from community leaders and rights groups. An AFP correspondent on Tuesday (Dec 10) saw troops in military fatigues erecting pillars for barbed-wire fences around one large camp at BalukhaliContinue Reading
