New Delhi, Feb 2, 2020: The four convicts in the Nirbhaya case are “trying the patience of the nation,” the federal government told the Delhi High Court in a rare Sunday hearing on February 2. The government challenged a trial court’s order staying the execution of Vinay Sharma, Pawan Gupta,Continue Reading
New Delhi, Feb 1, 2020: A man on February 1 fired shots at Shaheen Bagh in Delhi, the heart of protests against the citizenship law CAA, just three days after a teen shooter fired at protesters at nearby Jamia Millia University. This is the second daylight shooting in which theContinue Reading
Kolkata, Feb 1, 2020: It’s not enough to talk about violence against women only. Voices have to be raised against atrocities on minorities and the marginalized as well, and anyone who is feeling insecure in the current circumstances, when even something as basic as citizenship is coming up for questioning.Continue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Bengaluru, Feb 1, 2020: The 34th biennial plenary of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India (CBCI) will take place February 12-19 at St. John’s National Academy for Medical Sciences in Bengaluru, capital of Karnataka state, southern India. The theme for the plenary assembly is “dialogue.” TheContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Sonada, Feb 1, 2020: An inter faith dialogue forum has proposed the creative use of digital media to propagate awareness on the urgent need of harmonious living between the various religions in the hills. “It was decided to introduce the concept of Inter Faith Dialogue asContinue Reading
Dimapur, Feb 1, 2020: Catholics are called to spread inner joy like light in the world and it can come only from God, says Justice Kurian Joseph, former Supreme Court judge. “Wealth, power, or positions cannot remove darkness; only God’s light can remove darkness,” Justice Kurian told opening session ofContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Bhubaneswar, Jan 31, 2020: SIGNIS (World Catholic Association for Communications) in collaboration with Xavier University Bhubaneswar (XUB), India launched Jan 25 the first certificate course in Compassion and Social Communications. The intensive global media fellowship in Compassion and Social Communications was developed by Xavier Center forContinue Reading
By Rina Chandran Shillong, Jan 31, 2020: Tribal people in northeastern India are increasingly becoming landless and poor as their traditional farming practices are abandoned in favor of commercial plantations, experts warned on Jan 31. “Jhum” is the practice by tribal groups in the northeastern states of rotating land useContinue Reading
Bengaluru, Jan 31, 2020: Days after a sedition case was slapped against a school in Karnataka, its headmistress and a student’s mother have been arrested for alleged involvement in staging of a drama portraying Prime Minister Narendra Modi in poor light over the CAA and NRC. The police action onContinue Reading
New Delhi, Jan 31, 2020: A Delhi court on January 31 postponed the execution of death warrants of the four Nirbhaya case convicts until further orders. The four extracted another last-minute reprieve hours before they were to hang on February 1. Nirbhaya’s mother Asha Devi wept as she said thatContinue Reading
