By Matters India Reporter Jagdalpur: A mob attacked a Christian for not renouncing his faith in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh, Persecution Relief reported October 17. The man identified only as Jaithal, who lives in a village in Jagdalpur district, had received warnings and threats to recant his faithContinue Reading
New Delhi: India ranked 94 among 107 nations in the Global Hunger Index 2020 and is in the ‘serious’ hunger category with experts blaming poor implementation processes, lack of effective monitoring, siloed approach in tackling malnutrition and poor performance by large states behind the low ranking. Last year, India’s rankContinue Reading
Rome: Jesuits worldwide are mobilizing in protest after an 83-year-old Jesuit priest and human rights activist was arrested in India accused of terrorist links. Jesuit Father Stan Swamy, a prominent and popular human rights activist, was on October 8 arrested by the National Investigation Agency for alleged Maoist links. InContinue Reading
Lucknow: Police in Uttar Pradesh’s Gonda district on October 17 busted a conspiracy by a temple priest and others. According to the police, the priest Atul Tripathi alias Samrat Das hired a professional shooter and orchestrated an attack on himself to frame a political rival. The priest was injured inContinue Reading
By Hannah Brockhaus Vatican City: A new coin minted by the Vatican City State depicts a woman carrying the earth in her womb. The artist who designed the coin, which commemorates Earth Day, has said the design was his response to the ecological theme he was commissioned to portray. TheContinue Reading
Ranchi: Tribal groups have held protest marches across the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand in support of long-pending demands for a separate Sarna code ahead of the 2021 national census. Marches took place October 15 in several parts of Ranchi, the state capital. The marches in Ranchi, held under theContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Hyderabad: Civil society has come out in large numbers to help people affected by floods in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad. “The rains have caused massive devastation and great suffering to the people in Hyderabad,” says Father Varghese Theckanath, director of the Montfort Social InstituteContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Mumbai: Bhanu Rajopadhye Athaiya, a colossus of costume design who became India’s first Oscar winner for her work in Richard Attenborough’s Gandhi (1982), died October 15 in Mumbai. She was 91. Her daughter Radhika Gupta said Athayiya died in her sleep. “In 2012, she was diagnosedContinue Reading
Guwahati: Assam’s education minister says the government money cannot be used to teach Quran in madarsas, Islamic schools. “In my opinion, teaching Quran can’t happen at the cost of government money, if we have to do so then we should also teach both the Bible and Bhagavad Gita. So, weContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Darjeeling: Radio Salesian 90.8 FM will start broadcasting one hour radio program in Lepcha language from October 24. The program is prepared by three Lepcha radio journalists who have just undergone one month of intense training with Radio Salesian. The formal launch is scheduled at 10Continue Reading
