Chandigarh, July 28, 2019: The public relations nightmare for a five-star hotel in Chandigarh, peeled for trying to charge actor Rahul Bose Rs. 442 for two bananas, refuses to die down. Tax authorities have fined JW Marriott Rs. 25,000 for violating regulation by collecting tax on an exempted item, newsContinue Reading
By Jonah McKeown Denver, July 27, 2019: Following reports from the Associated Press that several hundred priests protested the Vatican’s recent decision to restore Cardinal George Alencherry to his administrative duties, a spokesman for the Syro-Malabar Church has disputed the report’s accuracy, and said that people wishing to see theContinue Reading
By Allen Brooks Guwahati, July 27, 2019: The Assam Christian Forum has expressed anxiety over the haste in which the Indian government tries to press an “unstudied and un-reflected” Education Policy on the people of the country. At an urgently called meeting in Guwahati, the state’s commercial capital, on JulyContinue Reading
Thiruvananthapuram, July 27, 2019: A study by an activist group has revealed glaring discrimination by various agencies against the marginalized during the 2018 flood relief operations in Kerala. The affected included Dalits, Dalit Christians, adivasis and scheduled castes. Their plight has been brought out in a document, ‘Marginalization in Catastrophe:Continue Reading
Kottayam, July 27, 2019: In a major development in the rape case against Bishop Franco Mulakkal of Jalandhar, differences were found in the contents of two DVDs submitted by the Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL), Thiruvananthapuram, to the Judicial First Class Magistrate Court, Pala, and the probe team. The original DVD,Continue Reading
By F. M. Britto Raipur, July 26, 2019: We have heard many stories of under-trial persons languishing in Indian jails for years. But Chhattisgarh has different types of under-trials. Three tortoises have been under legal custody for the last four years at Rajnandgaon in the central Indian state. The BasantpurContinue Reading
Agra, July 26, 2019: A team of investigators from Prayagraj has questioned some officials of the St Paul’s Church School, located in Agra’s civil lines area. The police team went to the Bishop’s House on July 25 to meet Church of North India Bishop Prem Prakash Haavil and his secretary,Continue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Rameswaram, July 26, 2019: More than 100,000 people belonging to different communities on July 24 participated in a chariot festival attached to a famous church in Tamil Nadu’s Rameshwaram city. “Although it’s a Christian festival, people from other religions participate in it. It is only becauseContinue Reading
New Delhi, Jul 25, 2019: Authorities in India’s northern Uttarakhand state are investigating whether sex-selective abortions were carried out in 132 villages in one of its 13 districts, where not a single girl was born since April. The investigations follow official revelations that among 216 births over the past threeContinue Reading
Ghaziabad, July 25, 2019: A woman hailing from the city has alleged of not being allowed to enter a temple because of her caste. Speaking to reporters about the incident, the woman named Shakuntala said, “I went to the temple early in the morning and was performing rituals. When IContinue Reading
