Bhadrak : Unidentified people torched a truck and damaged four other vehicles after they found that cattle were being allegedly smuggled in the vehicles in Odisha’s Bhadrak district, police said. The incident happened at Asurali under the jurisdiction of Dhamnghar police station on September 30, sparking tension in the areaContinue Reading
Thiruvananthapuram: Noted Malayali violinist and music composer Balabhasker (40) has passed away on October 2 morning. He was undergoing treatment after the car he was travelling met with an accident in Thiruvananthapuram on 25 September. While Balabhaskar’s two-year-old daughter Tejaswini died on the spot, wife Lakshmi (38) and driver ArjunContinue Reading
Pope Francis has stressed the need for ongoing formation for couples, before and after marriage, saying that even the basic teachings of the Church “could not be taken for granted.” The pope spoke in an address to participants in a recent course on marriage and family life held in Rome.Continue Reading
Jineesh came under a lorry last weekContinue Reading
Thiruvananthapuram: A day after Home Minister Rajnath Singh said at a public speech in Kerala that Rohingyas have started entering Kerala, a communication from the Railway Protection Force (RPF) marked ‘secret’ claimed that a huge number of Rohingyas are coming to Kerala by train. The communication is dated September 26Continue Reading
Biswanath: Little children in Assam’s Biswanath district risk their lives every day to go to school. A video of the students crossing a swift flowing river in aluminium pots grabbed attention on social media on September 28. Children in a small village called Sootea have to carry pots, big enoughContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Hyderabad: Poets, writers, environmentalists, social activists, academicians and others along with school children on September 28 marked the 110th anniversary of the flooding of Hyderabad. The day was celebrated under the iconic tamarind tree that saved 150 people who clung on to its branches to escapeContinue Reading
By Irudaya Jothi SJ Kolkata: National Nutrition Mission has decided to declare September as the “Poushan Maah” in West Bengal–it is Bhadra and Ashwin (mid-August to mid-October) the worst months for hunger as it is the same story in many parts of rural India. Media groups have regularly reported ‘starvationContinue Reading
By Mattes India Reporter New Delhi: There is an urgent need to side with the Dalits in India. This was stressed during a consultation jointly organized by Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India (CBCI) Office for Dalits and Backward Classes and Christian Institute for the study of Religion (CISRS) on theContinue Reading
By C.M. Paul Darjeeling: Samar Thapa, a Darjeeling based energy engineering scholar, has become the first one in the region to get doctorate in Building Thermal Comfort and Environment. Thapa, an assistant professor of Environmental Studies at Salesian College Sonada for more than 15 years, successfully defended his doctoral thesisContinue Reading