By Matters India Reporter Guwahati, Jan 12, 11 2020: Assam Don Bosco University won the “Engaged University of the Year 2020 Asia Pacific (Entrepreneurship and Engagement Excellence) Award” on January 10. This prestigious international award was conferred by the Accreditation Council for Entrepreneurial & Engaged Universities (ACEEU), Netherlands. The awardContinue Reading
Nirmala CarvalhoJan Mumbai, Jan. 10, 2020: India’s leading cardinal has called the country’s controversial Citizen Amendment Act “a cause of great anxiety for all citizens.” Cardinal Oswald Gracias, the Archbishop of Bombay and president of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India (CBCI), made his comments on Jan. 8 at aContinue Reading
By Sudarshan Varadhan New Delhi, Jan 9, 2020: One woman reported a rape every 15 minutes on average in India in 2018, according to government data released on January 9, underlining its dismal reputation as one of the worst places in the world to be female. The highly publicized gangContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, Jan 9, 2020: The Indian Christian Women Movement (ICWM) on January 9 urged the federal government to roll back the “unwanted exercise” of Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and National Register of Citizens NRC and focus on “real issues affecting” the country. “In the stubbornContinue Reading
By Nirmala Carvalho Mumbai, Jan 9, 2020: A 28-year-old nun who left a convent claiming mental and sexual harassment, is now facing threatening calls, according to her family. The nun had been living at St. Joseph’s convent in Kerala, the same state where another nun has accused a bishop ofContinue Reading
Mohali, Jan 9, 2020: A special Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court in Mohali, Chandigarh, on January 9 convicted six Punjab Police personnel for the abduction and murder of Baba Charan Singh and his five relatives in a 27 year-old-case. The court also acquitted three police officials. Singh and fiveContinue Reading
Madurai, Jan. 7, 2020: Tamil Nadu Bishops’ Council (TNBC) and the Tamil Nadu Latin Bishop’s Council (TNLBC) have condemned the recent attack on students on the campus of Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi. A statement said that the attack on the student community inside one of the country’s world-classContinue Reading
Bareilly, Jan 8, 2020: More than 100 cuts were inflicted on a woman by her exorcist sister-in-law and two others in a belief that it will ensure the recovery of her father-in-law. Renu, married to Sanjeev of Ghangaura village in Bhojipura area in Uttar Pradesh’s Bareilly district eight years ago,Continue Reading
New Delhi, Jan 8, 2020: Bharatiya Janata Party president Jagat Prakash Nadda has tried to get the support of Christian community to the controversial Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA). The former student of St Xavier’s School in Patna on January 7 met with around 15 pastors of various Christian denominations inContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Kochi, Jan 7, 2020: Cardinal Mar George Alencherry, head of the Syro-Malabar Church, has drawn flak for receiving a pamphlet distributed by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) supporting the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA). “The BJP in Ernakulam inaugurated their pro-CAA campaign by distributing the pamphlets toContinue Reading
