The National Council of Dalit Christians (NCDC) has appealed to the Union government to grant Scheduled Castes (SC) status to Dalit Christians and Muslims. The appeal was made during a two-day national managing committee and special general body meetings of the NCDC held in Odisha’s Gopalpur on September 28 andContinue Reading
Bhubaneswar, Sept. 30, 2019: Odisha sees three children going missing every day and the State police takes nearly 10 days to recover three missing children. With such a snail’s pace of recovery, the State languishes at the bottom in the country. And the big worry for Odisha is the whereaboutsContinue Reading
Ranchi, Sep 30: A church-run school in Jharkhand’s steel city Jamshedpur has suspended 17 students for allegedly shouting ‘Jai Shri Ram’ in the school, drawing protests from Hindu-right wing groups on Sept. 25. The matter came to light when some parents approached the district education officials, while Appu Tiwari, whoContinue Reading
By Irudhaya Jothi New Delhi, September 27, 2019: Around 220 Jesuit rights activist and their collaborators from South Asia have spent two days to review their past 50 years of commitment in social justice and seek new ways to become relevant to the marginalized. The Jesuits in Social Action (JESA)Continue Reading
New Delhi, September 26, 2019: The head of the Jesuits in South Asia has called for a new South Asian Association of Regional Corporation that encourages greater economic exchanges and more sociopolitical harmony. South Asia like rest of the world currently witnesses “an upsurge of the right-wing, with a lethalContinue Reading
Kochi, Sept. 26, 2019: A row which threatened to escalate into a major clash on Sept. 26 was averted after better sense prevailed among the bishops present at St Mary’s Syrian Jacobite Church, Piravom, near here, who decided to abide by the directions of the Supreme Court. Trouble had beenContinue Reading
Pune, Sept. 26, 2019: At least 17 persons, including four women and a teenage boy, lost their lives in rain-related incidents across Pune district, while four others are believed to be missing after an intense spell of heavy showers on the intervening night between Tuesday and Sept. 26. According toContinue Reading
Thiruvananthapuram, Sept. 25, 2019: A 19-year-old student in Kerala was arrested on Tuesday for allegedly raping his 18-year-old classmate and compelling her to convert to Islam. The accused Mohammed Jasim has been arrested under charges of rape, extortion and criminal intimidation, as well as deliberate and malicious acts intended toContinue Reading
Jharkhand, Sept. 25, 2019: A notice for appearance under Section 82 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC) to the human rights defender and Jesuit priest from Jharkhand, Fr. Stan Swamy. Though the notice was issued –on the format under the Ranchi High Court’s schedule– on July 22, 2019, itContinue Reading
Matters India reporter Bhopal, Sept. 25, 2019: The Bangalore based Functional Vocational Training Research Society (FVTRS) held its annual Skill Conference and Partners’ Meet 2019 at Bhopal, 24 to 26 September. The meeting was attended by about 100 delegates and inaugurated by Minister of State for Science & Technology ofContinue Reading
