New Delhi, May 23, 2020: A senior doctor at Delhi’s All India Institute Of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) died of COVID-19 on May 23. Dr Jitendra Nath Pande, 78, was the director of the Pulmonology department at the premier hospital, which has been treating coronavirus patients for weeks. Dr Pande andContinue Reading
New Delhi, May 23, 2020: The NHRC has sent a notice to the Uttar Pradesh government over reports that bodies of victims in the recent Auraiya road accident and those injured were being carried in the same vehicle by authorities, officials said on May 22. The National Human Rights CommissionContinue Reading
Kolkata, May 22, 2020: A 205-year-old church in Kolkata has lost a part of its legacy as cyclone Amphan battered the eastern Indian city two days ago. The black weather cock atop the slender spire of the St Andrew’s Church on Brabourne Road in the heart of the city wasContinue Reading
Thiruvananthapuram, May 22, 2020: The head of Kerala Police’s Crime Branch has returned the report of a team that probed the death of a novice nun in the southern Indian state. Tomin J Thachankary, Additional Director General of Police, on May 21 sought several clarifications in the probe team’s reportContinue Reading
Mumbai, May 21, 2020: Maharashtra on May 21 registered as many as 2,345 new coronavirus cases, taking the Covid-19 tally in the western India state to 41,642, health officials said. Mumbai crossed the 25,000 mark with 1,382 new cases. With 64 deaths due to the pandemic reported during the dayContinue Reading
By Nirmala Carvalho Mumbai, May 21, 2020: Laudato Si’ week is a time to reflect on climate change and its devastating effect on India and Asia, according to the Indian bishops’ point man for ecological issues. At the same time, Bishop Alwyn D’Silva says it’s a time to look toContinue Reading
Manila, May 21, 2020: “Impractical and without sense,” was how Archbishop Romulo Davao, the president of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines, described the government’s guidelines for the resumption of religious services. The Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infection Diseases (IATF-EID) had said under a modifiedContinue Reading
By C V Joseph Bengaluru, May 19, 2020: Don Bosco Church, Lingarajapuram, a Bengaluru suburb, has reached out to those affected by the nationwide lockdown in their neighborhood. Pparish priest Father Aloysius Santiago, who has led the aid work, termed the impact of Covid-19 outbreak on the Indian population asContinue Reading
New Delhi, May 19, 2020: The Supreme Court on May 19 said there can be no existence of free citizens if the news media cannot speak, and therefore journalistic freedom lies at the core of freedom of expression, but it is not absolute. The observations were made by a benchContinue Reading
By F. M. Britto Raipur, May 19, 2020: More than hundred buses have been deployed in Chhattisgarh state to ferry the hundreds of migrant laborers walking through the state to reach their destinations, reports Dainik Bhaskar. Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel gave orders on May 17 to all the 27Continue Reading
