New Delhi, India – India has made “impressive gains” in its fight against malaria, as the number of cases and deaths caused by the mosquito-borne disease has seen a marked drop in the country, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). The number of malaria cases in India has dropped from nearly 20 millionContinue Reading
By Joanna Slater New Delhi: Marrying across religious lines has always been a challenge in India, a vast multifaith democracy where the pull of family and tradition remains strong. Now politicians in India’s ruling party are contemplating laws to thwart such unions, driven by a conspiracy theory that views themContinue Reading
Mumbai: After almost a nine-month hiatus, churches across the Archdiocese of Bombay celebrated the Holy Eucharist on Nov. 29 Last week, Cardinal Oswald Gracias had issued a circular informing the laity about the decision to start celebrating Mass from November 29 onwards. The first day turned out to be aContinue Reading
By Balakrishna Ganeshan Visakhapatnam: V S Krishna, a human rights activist, has been fighting for 11 Adivasi women, who were allegedly raped by the Greyhounds, the elite anti-Naxal police force in Andhra Pradesh, at gun-point. After more than a decade since the incident, the state police have booked Krishna underContinue Reading
By Nirmala Carvalho Mumbai: The Bombay archdiocese has mourned the death of Monsignor Nereus Rodrigues, a pioneer of education in the western Indian city of Mumbai. The monsignor spent more than 60 years in the archdiocese’s education apostolate and founded St Andrew’s College in Bandra. He was 97. During hisContinue Reading
Panaji: Describing the newly-minted Goa Tourism Policy 2020 as a “mirage” which will not benefit either the state or its people, a church body has said that the document is not only short on data and fact, but also bats for privatisation of public resources. In a letter to theContinue Reading
By Irudhaya Jothi Konchowki: Civil society groups and individuals in India have launched a campaign to send blankets and sippers for Jesuit Father Stan Swamy who is lodged in a Mumbai jail for more than a month. The campaign began November 26 after a special court in Mumbai rejected aContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Chennai: At least three people were killed and nearly 1 million affected in the Nivar cyclonic storm that hit Tamil Nadu and Pondicherry in the southern India. The Tamil Nadu government moved more than 227,000 vulnerable people to relief camps before the cyclone made the landfallContinue Reading
New Delhi: India has the highest bribery rate in Asia and the most number of people who use personal connections to access public services, according to a new report by corruption watchdog Transparency International. The Global Corruption Barometer (GCB), Asia, found that nearly 50 per cent of those who paidContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi: Civil society groups across India organized a “National Vigil” for the country’s Constitution and Human Rights Defenders on November 26, the National Constitution Day. Several programs were conducted, including the recitation of the national recitation of the Preamble of the Constitution at 5.00 pm.Continue Reading
