Patna, July 30: Death toll in Bihar floods rose to 130 on July 30, whereas 88.46 lakh people have been affected in 13 districts in inundation caused earlier this month due to torrential rainfall in the catchment areas of Nepal, state disaster management department said. After the death figure remainedContinue Reading
Panaji, July 29: Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant on July 29 assured the state legislative assembly that he will look into complaints of police harassment by church-goers in Colva, a village in the coastal state’s southern region. Raising the issue, NCP MLA Churchill Alemao said traffic police personnel were penalizingContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, July 29, 2019: Domestic workers should be included in the Compensation Scheme for Survivors of Sexual Assault, says a national consultation on the implementation of the Prevention of Sexual Harassment at Workplace Act. “We call upon civil society, policymakers, private sector and citizens ofContinue Reading
By Matters India reporter Panaji, July 29, 2019: A parish in Goa on July 28 organized special programs to honor grandparents. “One of the best schools is at the knees of grandparents. We learn our traditions, values and culture from them,” Father Walter De Sa, pastor of Our Lady ofContinue Reading
GUWAHATI, JULY 28, 2019: A Christian organisation in the northeast, has questioned the motive behind the creation of a ‘Christian missionary cell’ at a time when the Centre is pushing an education policy to “homogenise Indian society.” The BJP in Mizoram had, a few days ago, formed the cell toContinue Reading
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
