By Razia Sanwari Udaipur, March 31, 2020: An organization of Bohra community has launched a project to distribute food packets daily to the needy in Udaipur, a major city in the northwestern Indian state of Rajasthan. About 20 volunteers of the Bohra Youth Sansthan (institute) began the distribution from aContinue Reading
By Purushottam Nayak Bamunigam, March 31, 2020: Police in Odisha have arrested a pastor and the secretary of a church for conducting prayers with people’s participation in violation of the countrywide lockdown norms to contain the coronavirus pandemic. The incident occurred on March 27 in a Baptist church at Tajungia,Continue Reading
Guwahat, Narch 30, 2020: In a laudable effort, Mysore Police, Karnataka has taken into custody the manager and staff members of a retail food outlet following an FIR lodged against them for not allowing some Naga students to buy food and for allegedly showing discriminatory behavior to these students. TheContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, March 29, 2020: India’s more than 115,000 Catholic religious men and women have been urged to reach out to the poor affected by a 21-day national lockdown to contain the spread of the coronavirus pandemic. “We need to move fast. This is an emergency,”Continue Reading
New Delhi, March 30, 2020: Actor Shikha Malhotra, who was seen in Shah Rukh Khan’s movie “Fan”, is volunteering at a Mumbai hospital as a nurse to help patients fight the COVID-19 disease, caused by a novel coronavirus. A novel virus is one that has never been seen infecting humansContinue Reading
Guwahati, March 29, 2020: Vikramjit Kakati, who serves as Associate Professor (Mechanical Engg) at Don Bosco University of Guwahati has been selected as one of the mentors in a Canada-based international panel to fight coronavirus pandemic. Montreal General Hospital Foundation, Canada, has launched a global Initiative to design a low-cost,Continue Reading
Chennai, March 28, 2020: A 35-year-old man placed under home quarantine amid the COVID-19 pandemic has been charged with killing a woman at a village in Tamil Nadu. The man, who quarantined after his return from Sri Lanka, ran out of his house naked and bit the 80-year-old woman inContinue Reading
Agra, March 28, 2020: A 39-year-old man on March 28 died in Agra after walking for about 200 km while on his way to his village in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. f Identified as Ranveer Singh, the father of three and resident of Badfra village in MorenaContinue Reading
By Purushottam Nayak Daringbadi, March 28, 2020: Hundreds of Marian devotees in Odisha have mourned the death of a woman who was instrumental in setting up the only shrine dedicated to the Blessed Virgin in the eastern Indian state. Agnes Nayak of Partama, a member of the Our Lady ofContinue Reading
New Delhi, March 27, 2020: A relief camp set up in northeast Delhi for hundreds of families affected by last month’s violence has been closed over fears of the highly contagious COVID-19 virus spreading among its occupants. The Eidgah camp in northeast Delhi’s Old Mustafabad has been shut by theContinue Reading
