July 1, 2020: As many as 45.8 million females are ‘missing’ in Indian demography in 2020, mainly due to pre and post-birth sex selection practices stemming from son preference and gender inequality, a recently released United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) report has said. India accounts for almost one-third (32.1 percent)Continue Reading
Bengaluru, July 1, 2020: Eight bodies – believed to be of those killed by the COVID-19 virus – wrapped in plastic are being tossed into a common pit for burial in a disturbing video that emerged June 30 from Karnataka’s Ballari district. Ballari Deputy Commissioner Collector SS Nakul, who pointedContinue Reading
Mumbai, July 1, 2020: With several parishioners unclear about the ambiguous and ever-changing guidelines the BMC issues on Catholic funerals, the office of Archdiocese of Bombay Cardinal Oswald Gracias clarified that burial is allowed at all cemeteries, and once again asked the people to ensure fewer mourners attend the service.Continue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Kolkata, June 30, 2020: While Covid 19 challenges the rest of the world; the people of West Bengal suffer also from the aftermath of Amphan super cyclone. To their help has come the social service wing of the Calcutta Jesuit, ‘Udayani Social Action Forum.’ Along withContinue Reading
By Sameer Yasir and Jeffrey Gettleman New Delhi, June 28, 2020 : Throughout the years she was growing up in southern India, Christy Jennifer, a producer with a media house in the city of Chennai, was traumatized by episodes of prejudice. As she walked through school corridors, classmates pointed atContinue Reading
New Delhi, June 29, 2020: Members of the Malankara Jacobite Syrian Church in Kerala have approached the Supreme Court for permission to intervene in the Sabarimala review case before a Constitution Bench. The nine-judge Bench is poised to decide “larger questions” of what constitutes religious freedom under Article 25 ofContinue Reading
New Delhi, June 29, 2020: Tribal artisans will soon be able to sell their products at the click of a mouse with the government gearing up to launch a specialised e-marketplace for them this Independence Day. “We will launch the website—Tribes India e-Mart—on Independence Day on August 15. It willContinue Reading
By Irudhaya Jothi SJ, Konchowki, June 29, 2020: Nandan Ghatwar says he will never leave his village if he gets work with a daily of 600 rupees for 200 days in a year. The 29-year-old resident of Bandiguri Tea Garden, under Barapatia Gram Panchayat of Jalpaiguri district in West BengalContinue Reading
Guwahati/Agartala, June 28, 2020: Amidst the surge of COVID-19 cases, Assam is battling at another front — the annual recurring flood, that already distressed 9.26 lakh people in 2,071 villages in 23 of the state”s 33 districts, officials said in Guwahati on June 28. According to the officials of AssamContinue Reading
Nalgonda, June 28. 2020: Covid-19 pandemic turned his life upside down. He was forced to return to his village in Nalgonda district with his wife and eight-month-old son when the lockdown imposed to check the pandemic spread forced the closure of the school and left him jobless. Satyanarayana was paidContinue Reading
