Chennai: Celebrated singer Sripathi Paditha Arathyula Balasubramaniam died in a Chennai hospital after almost two months of treatment. He was 74. The death occurred at 1:04 pm on September 25, 2020 in the MGM Healthcare. Balasubrahmanyam was hospitalized in August after testing positive for Covid-19, and while he reportedly did wellContinue Reading
New Delhi: More than two dozen farmers’ organizations from across India, supported by 18 political parties, on September 25 took to the streets protesting the farm bills passed by Parliament. Punjab and Haryana are the epicenters of the protests, though the demand for legal guarantee of minimum support prices (MSP)Continue Reading
By Jessy Joseph New Delhi, Sept 24, 2020: Police in Andhra Pradesh have launched an investigation after some miscreants disfigured statues of Mother Mary, Jesus and Child Jesus in a church. The parish priest of St Mary Magdalene Church at Mandapeta in East Godavari district found the statues desecrated onContinue Reading
By Vidhya Salluri Kathmandu, September 22, 2020: The Congregation of Our Lady of Charity of the Good Shepherd organized a nine-day online course on journalism to enhance its members’ communication skills. Around 20 nuns attended the September 13-21 course on “News Writing and Reporting” conducted by the National Institute ofContinue Reading
New Delhi, Sept 23, 2020: Minister of State for Railways Suresh Angadi died September 23 at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi. He was hospitalized September 11 after he contracted COVID-19. He was 65. The leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party leader was a four-time Member ofContinue Reading
New Delhi, Sept 23, 2020: India witnessed 31 incidents of attacks on Christians in August this year. Majority of those attacks were reported from Uttar Pradesh in north and Chhattisgarh in central India, both states reporting 11 incidents each. The month saw a significant rise in such incidents as theContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Alappuzha, Sept 23, 2020: The body of Archbishop Joseph Chennoth, the Vatican’s apostolic nuncio to Japan, was laid to rest at his native parish in the Alappuzha district of Kerala, southern India The funeral September 22 was held with full state honors at St Thomas Church,Continue Reading
Thiruvananthapuram, Sept. 23, 2020: The Kerala government led by Marxists has allowed a Christian group a special concession in the exam calendar on the grounds of religion. Following the order, nine twelfth grades of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church will give their state board ‘improvement’ exams after sunset on on SeptemberContinue Reading
Nirmala Carvalho Mumbai, Sept. 20, 2020: After floods devastated the Indian state of Karnataka in August 2019, thousands of people were made homeless. Since then, the local Catholic Church has been working to help the community, and this month the Archdiocese of Bangalore gave financial support to the Diocese ofContinue Reading
Matters India Reporter Darjeeling, September 21, 2020 – First community radio of the hills is set to train three radio journalists for Lepcha Development Board to air weekly programs in Lepcha language on Radio Salesian 90.8 FM – The Voice of the Hills. The weekly programs will also be availableContinue Reading
