Minku Das Guwahati, Sept 17, 2020: A Guwahati-based NGO has teamed up with National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development to impart Skill Development Training of Reversed Migrants in Tribal Development Fund Project Area of Rongjuli Block, at Mariampur, Goalpara. Some 50 selected trainees and Gaon Burah, and prominent villagersContinue Reading
New Delhi, Sept 16, 2020: The Indian Medical Association, a national voluntary organization of doctors of modern scientific system of medicine in India, has sounded upset over recent statements of various government sources regarding the coronavirus pandemic. The association that looks after the interest of doctors and their wellbeing wasContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, September 16, 2020: One of the pioneers of Adivasi domestic workers and anti-human trafficking movement in Delhi, died on September 15. Sarita Baa was sick for some time, said Alma Grace Barla, a human rights activist, who had worked with her. Baa tirelessly workedContinue Reading
Matters India Reporter Kolkata, September 14, 2020 — A priest catechist in Kolkata has marked Year of Laudato Si’, with the launch of what he calls ‘Stations of Creation – a Way of Beauty’ on Feast of Exaltation of the Holy Cross, September 14. The full text of the StationsContinue Reading
By Nilashish Chaudhary New Delhi, Sept 15, 2020: A Public Interest Litigation filed in the Delhi High Court has sought a declaration recognizing the right of same-sex couples to get married under the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955. The petition filed on behalf of activists and members of the LGBTQ communityContinue Reading
By Sanya Talwar New Delhi, Sept 15 2020: The Supreme Court on September 15 restrained a rightwing television channel until further orders from telecasting the remaining episodes of a controversial show. The bench of Justices D Y Chandrachud, Indu Malhotra and K M Joseph was hearing a petition filed againstContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Kolkata, Sept 14, 2020: A renowned moral theologian and a priest of the Archdiocese of Calcutta died September 14. Father Mervyn Carapiet died suddenly, said condolence message from the Archdiocese of Calcutta. He was 87. Father Carapiet, a preacher, teacher and writer par excellence, was servingContinue Reading
Aizawl, Sept 14, 2020: Amid the shortage of hospitals in Aizawl, two local Presbyterian churches and a Young Mizo Association (YMA) branch have come to the help of the government in offering their halls to be used as COVID-19 care centres (CCC) where the infected people will be treated. RulingContinue Reading
Vasco, Sept 13, 2020: A parish in Goa has urged the state government to return a lake it had given to a municipal corporation for beautification. “The Vaddem Lake belongs to the Church,” says Father Gabriel Coutinho, parish priest of St Andrew’s Church of Vasco. In a letter sent onContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Jaipur, Sept 13, 2020: A mob of religious fanatics has threatened a Christian pastor in in the northwestern Indian state of Rajasthan, Persecution Relief reported September 13. According to the inter-denominational organization dedicated to helping the Church in India, the mob on September 11 gathered outsideContinue Reading
