Chennai, October 9, 2018: Editor Nakkheeran Gopal, who was arrested by the Chennai police on Tuesday morning, won’t go to jail for defamation as a Chennai court turned down a judicial custody request by the police. A complaint was filed from Governor Banwarilal Purohit’s office over the publication’s reportage onContinue Reading
New Delhi, Oct 9, 2018: Security personnel at airports have been told to cut down on smiling, according to reports. The Central Industrial Security Force (CISF), in charge of aviation safety, will move from a “broad smile system” to a “sufficient smile system”, the Indian Express said in a report.Continue Reading
New Delhi, Oct. 9, 2018: Esha Bahal, a student of Political Science in a Noida university, has become British High Commissioner to India for 24 hours. To mark the International Day of the Girl Child, which is celebrated on October 11, the British High Commission organised a competition for womenContinue Reading
Palu, October 8, 2018: Indonesian Christians sought solace Sunday in churches in the city of Palu, hard hit last week by an earthquake and a tsunami that roiled central Sulawesi, killing 1,649 people and seriously injuring some 2,500 people. Indonesia is the world’s most populous Muslim country, but there areContinue Reading
Vatican City, October 8, 2018 – The devil is alive and well and working overtime to undermine the Roman Catholic Church, Pope Francis says. In fact, the pope is so convinced that Satan is to blame for the sexual abuse crisis and deep divisions racking the Church that he hasContinue Reading
Rome: Archbishop of Bombay Oswald Cardinal Gracias has said that Pope Francis is closely following the developments in the case of Jalandhar bishop Franco Mulakkal who has been arrested for allegedly raping a nun multiple times over two years. Cardinal Gracias, who is the president of the Catholic Bishops ConferenceContinue Reading
New Delhi, Oct 8, 2018: The Delhi Minorities Commission has issued a notice to the North civic body over a circular issued by it for recital of ‘Gayatri Mantra’ in schools run by its education department. Chairman of Delhi Minorities Commission(DMC) Zafarul Islam Khan said the notice was recently issuedContinue Reading
Vidhi Doshi New Delhi : A cascade of allegations of sexual assault and misconduct involving prominent Indian men flooded social media over the weekend, spurring resignations, the closing of a movie production company and public apologies. More than a year after allegations of rape and sexual assault against Hollywood mogulContinue Reading
New Delhi, Oct 8, 2018: Increasing population and limited participation in higher education are mainly blamed for backwardness of Muslim community, but a new report questions this argument, pointing out that the community’s population in Kerala rose by 15 lakh between 2001-2011 despite being economically better and literate. Though theContinue Reading
Fr Cedric Prakash SJ (A personal tribute to GIRISH PATEL, doyen of the human rights movement in Gujarat- who died in Ahmedabad on 6 October 2018) It is hard to say “goodbye” to someone who has been so very special; someone who has meant so much to me and manyContinue Reading
