Mattersindia Reporter Phulbani, August 25, 2019: Various parishes of the Archdiocese of Cuttack-Bhubaneswar offered special prayers for the victims of Kandhamal pogrom on August 25. “We had today prayer service and special prayers were offered for those who died in Kandhamal violence of 2008,” Father Udayanath Bishoyi, parish priest ofContinue Reading

Matters India reporter Kochi, Aug. 25, 2019: A team of youth trainers experimented with a new ‘wake up call’ training in the School of Social Sciences and Engineering at Rajagiri College, Kochi, first and third week of August. Four 2-day workshops were held at the Carmelites of Mary Immaculate institutionContinue Reading

Thiruvananthapuram, August 25, 2019: An Indian Administrative Service officer has tendered his resignation saying he wants his freedom of expression back. “We got into the service thinking that we can provide voice to people, but then we ended up with our own voice being taken away from us,” said KannanContinue Reading

By chhotebhai Kanpur, August 24, 2019: Four years ago, my classmates celebrated the golden jubilee of our passing out of school (Senior Cambridge) in 1965. One classmate recalled an incident where I acted as his wife in the school concert – replete with lipstick, rouge and the mandatory coconut shellsContinue Reading

By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, August 24, 2019: Arun Jaitley, a former finance minister of India and an alumnus of a Jesuit school, died on August 24 at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi. He was 66. Jaitely, a stalwart of the Bharatiya Janata Party, wasContinue Reading