New Delhi: For 20-year-old Aman Khatri, getting a Covid-19 vaccination today was one of the best things to happen in almost 10 months, for most of which he couldn’t even go home. Mortuary cleaning at New Delhi’s Rajeev Gandhi Speciality Hospital may not have been the ideal job to haveContinue Reading
By Alok Mohit Patna: The hurriedly enacted farm laws aim to introduce corporate farming in India, says Jesuit social scientist Father Prakash Louis. The enactment of the three farms laws at a time when the country was grappling with problems related to Covid-19 was “anti-people and anti-farmers,” Father Louis assertedContinue Reading
Vijayawada: The Crime Investigation Department of Andhra Pradesh police has arrested a Christian preacher for alleged making inflammatory speeches insulting another religion. Additional Director General of Police (CID) PV Sunil Kumar said Praveen Chakravarthi from Kakinada town in East Godavari district has allegedly made provocative comments that could potentially disturbContinue Reading
Vijayawada: Leaders of Telugu Desam Party’s Christian cell from 13 districts of Andhra Pradesh met in Vijayawada to resign to protest the alleged communal remarks of party chief and former Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu. Their move came days after the party lost another longtime minority leader, Philip C Tocher, aContinue Reading
By I P Sarto Dumka: The Christians of Dumka town in Jharkhand state on January 14 formed a human chain to support the protesting farmers in Delhi. This initiative to support the farmers who are agitating for nearly two months at the border of the national capital was taken byContinue Reading
Ooty: A special prayer was held on January 12 at St Thomas Church in Ooty to mark the 150th birth anniversary of John Josaiah Goodwin, the stenographer of Swami Vivekananda. The British man, who followed Vivekananda across the globe taking down notes and typing his lectures for newspapers, had madeContinue Reading
By I P Sarto Dumka: The Small Christian Community (SCCs) members from Dumka diocese in Jharkhand shared unanimously that their faith in Christ was deepened during the lockdown. Representatives from two parishes of 13 SCC units of St. Joseph’s Parish, Guhiajori village, about 10 km from Dumka town and SacredContinue Reading
Lucknow: The Allahabad High Court January 13 made the display of notices for marriage of inter-faith couples optional. The order is likely to bring relief to inter faith couples. The court said the publication of such notices “would invade in the fundamental rights of liberty and privacy.” They would alsoContinue Reading
New Delhi: A Delhi court on January 12 granted bail to seven people arrested in a case related to the north-east Delhi riots. The court cast doubts on the credibility of the two police witnesses. Additional Sessions Judge Vinod Yadav granted the relief to the seven on furnishing a bailContinue Reading
New Delhi: Farmer leaders on January 12 welcomed the Supreme Court’s order to stay the implementation of three farm laws, but said they will not call off their protest until the laws are repealed. In a statement, the All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee (AIKSCC), an umbrella body of aroundContinue Reading