Kochi, April 11, 2019: A news and entertainment television channel led by a Catholic lay preacher is slated to go on air on April 28 in Kerala. Santhosh Karumathra, owner of Shekinah, told The Hindu on April 9 that it would take three months before the channel’s full operations couldContinue Reading
Chandigarh, April 10, 2019: Punjab Governor V P Singh Badnore on April 10 declined an invite from the British High Commission to attend the birthday celebrations of Queen Elizabeth-II in Chandigarh. The reason, the event fell on the eve of the 100th anniversary of the Jallianwala Bagh massacre by theContinue Reading
By Shajid Khan Guwahati, April 10, 2019: A mob has thrashed a man for allegedly selling cooked beef at his eatery in Assam, northeastern India. The attackers also stopped Shaukat Ali, who is in his 70s, from going for namaz (Muslim prayers) and forced him to consume pork, a foodContinue Reading
Kundapur, April 10, 2019: Its election season in Karnataka and while parties are going all out to ensure that constituents actually come out on the day of polling to exercise their voting right, one activist has come up with a unique idea to urge people to vote. Ganesh Kumar, sonContinue Reading
New Delhi, April 10, 2019: India’s population grew at 1.2 percent a year between 2010 and 2019, marginally higher than the global average of 1.1 percent a year in this period. However, India’s growth was more than double of China’s 0.5 percent a year, according to the United Nations PopulationContinue Reading
April 9, 2019: The Arunachal Pradesh Catholic Association (APCA) has withdrawn the “prayer to vote”, which it had issued to the Christians of the state to vote for former Chief Minister Nabam Tuki in the Lok Sabha elections. After being slapped with a show cause notice by the Election CommissionContinue Reading
Ramanathapuram, April 9, 2019: A village Tamil Nadu has refused to vote in the national election as it doesn’t have any basic facilities. The Melasirupothu village is in Ramanathapuram, a district over 500 km from state capital Chennai. The villagers took out a protest march holding black flags alleging non-paymentContinue Reading
Imphal, April 9, 2019: In a major relief to Manipur-based journalist Kishorchandra Wangkhem, the High Court of Manipur on April 8 quashed his detention order under the National Security Act and ordered his immediate release. The 39-year-old journalist was detained for allegedly criticizing the BJP, RSS, Prime Minister Narendra ModiContinue Reading
By Siby Mathew Jaipur, April 9, 2019: The Church in India is committed to accompany migrant workers, said Fr. Jaison Vadassery, secretary, Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India (CBCI) Office for Labour. “The economy must serve people, not the other way around. Work is more than a way to make aContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Mumbai, April 9, 2019: The Indian Christian Women’s Movement, an ecumenical group, has condemned recent mob violence on a convent school in Tamil Nadu, southern India. In a democratic country that has law enforcement agencies, the attack on a school run by sisters by “a mobContinue Reading
