By Matters India Reporter Gumla, September 20, 2019: People’s movements in Jharkhand, where state assembly elections are due before the end of this year, have begun public awareness meetings. On September 19, a public meeting was organized under a local awareness forum in Gumla, a city some 95 km southwestContinue Reading
Kendrapara, September 19, 2019: Subhasmita Tripathy, a village girl from Odisha, eastern India, has been nominated for International Children’s Peace Prize 2019. The eighth grader of Upper Primary School in sea erosion-hit Pentha village is among 119 child leaders from across the globe nominated for the prize. The 13-year-old IndianContinue Reading
New Delhi, Sept. 18, 2019: The Union home ministry has amended rules on foreign funding under which office-bearers, key functionaries and members of NGOs receiving such grants will have to file an affidavit declaring that they had not been prosecuted or convicted in any act of religious conversion and forContinue Reading
Thiruvanathapuram, Sept. 18, 2019: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Sept 17 strived to spring a surprise on the defence during the high-profile Sister Abhaya case trial. The agency produced a retired professor who had taught Abhaya at BCM College for Women, Kottayam, in the early 1990s as anContinue Reading
Patna, Sept 18, 2019: At least 18 people were killed in Bihar in lightning strikes during heavy rainfall since Tuesday, officials said on Sept 18 . According to the Bihar Disaster Management Department, lightning claimed altogether 18 lives with Gaya and Kaimur accounting for three casualties each, followed by Patna,Continue Reading
Guwahati, Sept. 18, 2019: Even as the National Register of Citizens (NRC) have become a nightmare for many people from the indigenous communities who failed to make the cut, the register has included 60 orphans brought up in Snehalaya Orphanage in Guwahati. These children were rescued without any valid documentsContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter with inputs from globalsistersreport.org Dwaraka, September 18, 2019: More than 1,500 Catholic nuns from 34 congregations were among some 2,800 people who attended a prayer program in Kerala against alleged media criticism of religious life. “The aim of the meeting was to correct many baseless allegationsContinue Reading
Jamshedpur, Sept. 16., 2019: 15 year-old student of St Xavier’s High School at Chaibasa was found hanging at her home in the Patahatu area, some 80km from the steel city, on Saturday. Her mother has accused a priest at the missionary school of humiliating and torturing her daughter. Jyoti Bari,Continue Reading
Matters India reporter Narakkal, Sept. 12, 2019: A documentary film, almost 3 years in the making, featuring the life and times of legendary Gandhian, Sarvodayam Kurian of Vypin Island in Ernakulam district of Kerala has been nominated to two International Film Festivals, in Poland and Italy. The producer and directorContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Patna, September 15, 2019: While rest of India debated the federal Home Minister’s suggestion to make Hindi the national language, students of a Jesuit college in Patna sang paeans to the language. The students of St Xavier’s College of Management and Technology in the capital cityContinue Reading
