By Mohua Das Mumbai: When a Mumbai couple found themselves a woman qazi to officiate at their nikah two years ago, it was a first for Darul Uloom-e-Niswan established in 2016 by the Bharatiya Muslim Mahila Andolan to produce a steady stream of women qazis, previously unheard of in India.Continue Reading
By Karan Deep Singh Ballabgarh: In late November, an urgent email popped up in the inbox of Hindustan Syringes and Medical Devices, one of the world’s largest syringe makers. It was from UNICEF, the United Nations agency for children, and it was desperately seeking syringes. Not just any would do.Continue Reading
By Peerzada Ummer, LiCAS News Reporter Renuka Singh, a 35-year-old housewife from India’s northern state of Haryana, vividly remembers the ordeal she experienced when she ran away from her in-laws’ house with one of her daughters. Married for four years, Renuka said she was subjected to extreme abuse from herContinue Reading
Baghdad: When Pope Francis visits Iraq from March 5 to 8, he will meet only the scant remains of a Christian community of two millennia that has been hollowed-out by two past violent decades. After first settling in the fertile plains of Nineveh province before heading for the busy boulevardsContinue Reading
By Patrick Egwu Bodo: Simon Ayafa has witnessed oil pollution in the Niger Delta region since he was 15. Now, at 35, he feels the region has been made inhabitable by decades of oil spills. “You to go the stream to fetch water and you get oil,” said Ayafa, whoContinue Reading
By Jeffrey Gettleman and Suhasini Raj New Delhi: Indian students have been hitting the books hard in preparation for a big test on cows, reading that India’s cows have more emotions than foreign ones, and that their humps have special powers. As part of a new optional bovine curriculum, pushedContinue Reading
By Suwathy V Coimbatore: Rajalakshmi, a middle-aged woman, and her husband have to walk several miles from their home to their farm in Kallar in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Kallar is a village settlement located in Anaimalai (Elephant mountains). The settlement is populated by tribals. The coupleContinue Reading
By Thomas Scaria Mangaluru: A simple survey undertaken by a group of Catholic youth on the effect of pandemic on Substance Use Disorder resulted in developing an online training for addiction practitioners from more than 15 countries. Ecolink Institute of Well-being which carried out the survey not only identified hundredsContinue Reading
Natukani: When Kerala witnessed the worst flood of the century in 2018 and many lost their homes, a safe roof to live under was their only concern next. In fact, Father Jijo Kurian, a priest living in a monastery in Idukki district, realized this when he was on a rescueContinue Reading
New Delhi: Sunita, 24, is known by everyone in Sewak Park, in West Delhi – the national capital of India. Sunita was a child labourer, one among the whopping 10.1 million child labour workforce in India. At the tender age of 12, she started working as a babysitter, Sunita toldContinue Reading
