Matters India Reporter Kolkata, November 27, 2024: A student delegate from Don Bosco School Park Circus, Kolkata at COP29 held in Baku Azerbaijan last week, was declared Climate Ambassador by United Nations Agency for Development and Peace (UNADAP). The citation presented to 14 year old student Swanik Choudhury of ClassContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Bhubaneswar, Nov 15, 2025: A four-member team that probed food poisoning deaths in an Odisha village blames the eastern Indian state’s negligent public distribution system among other reasons. “The families in Mandipanka village had not received ration for three months,” the team, commissioned by the OdishaContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Jalandhar, Nov 14, 2024: Representatives of various religions from around the world attended an inter-faith conference to honor the 555th birth anniversary of Guru Nanak Dev, the founder of Sikh religion. The November 13 event at Gurdwara Sahib Buland Pur, Jalandhar, in India’s Punjab state, broughtContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Udupi, Nov 12, 2024: K Jayashankara came to a workshop organized by the diocese of Udupi with misgivings about Artificial Intelligence. “Now I am confident to explore the vast world of AI. I realize now that AI doesn’t take away jobs if we learn to useContinue Reading
By Joswin Praveen D’Souza Mangaluru, Oct 22, 2024: More than 100 philosophers have spent three days in the southern Indian city of Mangalore to study the relevance of hope amid modern challenges. “Hope is born at the intersection of dissent and discomfort with the material conditions of our existence,” saidContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Mumbai, Oct 21, 2024: A symposium on the importance of the reading habit in the digital age heard several priests sharing how books have not only led them to the seminary but sustained them in their vocation. The program was organized by the local chapter ofContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Shillong, October 14, 2024: Christian Brother Eric Steve D’Souza, a revered educator who taught Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan and Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad Sangma, died, in Goa, at the age of 74. The death occurred at 1:20 pm on October 13 at Shanti Niwas (aContinue Reading
By Kampan Chinnam Guwahati, Oct. 5, 2024: Community leaders and organizations in Manipur’s Ukhrul district have called for peace and reconciliation after clashes during a cleanliness drive on Mahatma Gandhi’s birth anniversary left four dead and five wounded. “Each heart that bleeds today is a wound on our shared soul.Continue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, Oct 3, 2024: The Supreme Court has barred remarks made by the Allahabad High Court regarding religious conversions and their impact on the country’s demographics, deeming them inappropriate. The apex court’s September 27 decision came as it granted bail to Kailash, a Christian fromContinue Reading
By Elvis Fernandes Goa Velha, Sept 30, 2024: Nature walk, biodiversity rangoli, palm leaf craft dominated an annual community festival for farmers, traditional practitioners and villagers in Goa. The Pilar Society’s department for interfaith relations has organized the “Sadbhav Mahotsav” on September 28 in collaboration with the Goa Velha Panchayat,Continue Reading
