New Delhi, Dec 6, 2020: “People have a right to demonstrate peacefully and authorities need to let them do so,” said Stephane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary General of the United Nations on December 5, on being asked about the farmers’ movement that has continued despite talks with the GovernmentContinue Reading
Mumbai: The registration of Christian marriages in Mumbai has come to a halt after the retirement of the marriage officer in July. Amid the Covid-19 pandemic, newlywed couples are forced to travel to Pune to get their marriage certificates stamped by state government authorities. Activists Godfrey Pimenta and Nicholas AlmeidaContinue Reading
Mumbai: The advocate of activist Father Stan Swamy, an accused in the Elgar Parishad-Maoist links case, on December 4 told a special court that Swamy has been given a straw and sipper by the Taloja jail authorities. Swamy, 83, on December 4 filed three fresh applications seeking a direction toContinue Reading
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on December 4 granted bail to independent journalist Rajeev Sharma, who is accused of spying for China. A Single Bench of Justice Anu Malhotra granted bail to Sharma on a personal bond of Rs 1 lakh. The court said that despite more than 60Continue Reading
By C V Joseph Bengaluru: A Catholic parish in Bengaluru has collaborated with the local Lions Club to distribute auto partitions to help protest their passengers from Covid-19. Fr Aloysius Santiago, Parish Priest, Don Bosco Church, said he had found most autorikshaw drivers not practicing the government order to installContinue Reading
New Delhi: A week after Yogi Adityanath-led government’s new ordinance against the unlawful conversion became law, the UP police on December 2 stopped a marriage ceremony between a Muslim man and Hindu woman in Lucknow despite the consent of both the families, citing the new law. Just before the scheduledContinue Reading
This year’s Global Teacher Prize has been awarded to Ranjitsinh Disale for his work helping girls, most of then from poor tribal communities, at a village school in western India. He was selected from 12,000 nominations from more than 140 countries around the world. The Indian teacher was announced byContinue Reading
New Delhi: The image of an elderly man running as a policeman came at him with a stick during farmer protests went viral after it was tweeted by several Congress leaders and the BJP questioned whether he was really beaten. The BJP’s social media chief Amit Malviya’s fact-checking tweet discreditingContinue Reading
New Delhi: At least three people have died in the ongoing farmers’ protests. Dhanna Singh from Mansa district in Punjab died near Mundhal in Bhiwani district, on the night of November 26, due to an overhead collision of his tractor with the truck full of sandbags. The truck of sandbagsContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Kochi: The Bharatiya Janata Party has fielded 500 Christian and 112 Muslim candidates for the local body elections in Kerala. If the BJP manages to win at least municipal corporations in these elections, it would brighten the party’s chances in the Kerala assembly elections scheduled toContinue Reading