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
By Matters India Reporter Panaji: Jesuit provincial of Goa Father Roland Coelho on December 3 urged Catholics to stand with the poor and the voiceless. He was speaking at the Mass on the feast of St Francis Xavier at Bom Jesu Basilica, Old Goa. The Catholic Church observes December 3Continue Reading
In Jaipur one afternoon last fall, the filmmaker Anand Patwardhan sat in a booth outside an auditorium, waiting to screen his latest documentary, “Reason.” These showings, Patwardhan had written to me earlier, were “semi-clandestine” — partly out of a fear of right-wing vigilante groups and partly because, even now, twoContinue Reading
Guwahati: Assam is planning a law that will require the bride and groom to declare their religion and income in official documents a month before the wedding. Against the backdrop of many other BJP-ruled states bringing in laws to check “love jihad”, the Assam government says its aim is toContinue Reading
Panaji: Amid vociferous protests from the opposition as well as heritage conservationists, the Goa government has backpedalled from its proposed move to include an area housing a 17th century Old Goa Church complex under an urban planning authority. Critics of the move to include Ela village near Panaji, which isContinue Reading
