New Delhi, July 11, 2020: A family in Kerala has demanded 1 billion rupees as compensation from the Italian government days after a UN court said India is entitled to compensation in the case of Italian Mariners firing on a fishing village. The family of Prijin A claims that heContinue Reading
Itanagar, July 11, 2020: At least eight people, including an infant, have been killed in two separate incidents of landslides in Arunachal Pradesh, which has been receiving heavy and incessant rainfall for the last several days. There have been reports of flash floods in the low-lying area as well, theContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Bengaluru, July 10, 2020: The funeral of Father Anthony Swamy, former chancellor of the archdiocese of Bangalore, was held on July 10 with restricted number of people. The 61-year-old priest died July 8, a day before his birthday, at Sagar Apollo Hospital in Marathahalli, a suburbContinue Reading
Darjeeling, July 8, 2020: Gurung lives less than a kilometer away from Darjeeling district hospital but for the past three months, he has only been promising his six-year-old son Sherab that he will come home soon. Amir, the “Covid driver”, however, is not sure when he will reunite with hisContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Hyderabad, July 7, 2020: Christian leaders in Telugu region have raised alarm over difficulties faced by a family to find burial place for a nurse who died of Covid-19. “This is a very alarming issue that needs to be addressed urgently in the community,” Brother VargheseContinue Reading
Port Blair, July 7, 2020: The Andaman and Nicobar Police would soon issue a summon letter via the Ministry of External Affairs to examine Colorado-based Bobbie Par and Tennessee-based Christian in connection with American tourist John Allen Chau murder case. Chau was killed by the Sentinelese tribe in the ArchipelagoContinue Reading
Mumbai, July 7, 2020: As the number of coronavirus infections surge across the country, minority religious institutions, staying true to their values of humanism, have shown the way by offering their premises to be converted to quarantine centers or hospitals to strengthen the fight against the pandemic. In Mumbai, PawanContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, July 7, 2020: Journalist unions have decided to observe July 9 as the Press Rights Day after more than a thousand journalists lost their jobs in recent months in India. A press release from the Delhi Union of Working Journalists on July 7 quotesContinue Reading
Patna, July 6, 2020: Lightning strikes killed 147 people in the north Indian state of Bihar over the last 10 days, officials said July 5, warning of more extreme weather conditions to come, driven by climate change. Around 215 people — farmers, rural laborers and cattle grazers — have nowContinue Reading
New Delhi, July 5, 2020: India has now taken the third spot in the list of nations worst hit by coronavirus. The country logged more than 697,836 positive cases by the end of July 5, according to data from state governments, overtaking Russia, which had 680,000 as per America’s JohnsContinue Reading
