Delhi: The National Commission of Women (NCW) has recommended abolishing the practice of “confessions” in churches as it can lead to blackmailing of women. A central agency also needs to do a proper investigation into the increasing incidents of rape and sexual assaults in churches of Kerala, NCW chairperson RekhaContinue Reading
Those who have set up their own courts of justice in the narrowness of their prejudiced minds and are judging and ridiculing the Missionaries of Charity should have met Sister John Berchmans before she died peacefully a few days ago at Mother House in Calcutta. If they had, they wouldContinue Reading
Ranchi: A two-member team from the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) visited Nirmal Hriday on Tuesday in the wake of the alleged baby business unearthed at the Missionaries of Charity-run shelter on Jail Road earlier this month. Four children born to minor girls at the shelter andContinue Reading
Kochi: The Kerala High Court on Wednesday granted bail to Father Job Mathew, one of the four priests accused in a rape case of a woman parishioner, attached to the Malankara Orthodox Church. Earlier on Monday another priest Johnson V. Mathew, an accused in the same case had secured bail.Continue Reading
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By Vidhi Doshi New Delhi: After the summer break, Delhi’s children returned to school this month and found a new class added to their schedules: happiness. It wasn’t a welcome-back joke. In a country where top universities demand average test scores above 98 percent and where cheating on high schoolContinue Reading
Nobel laureate Amartya Sen is known worldwide of making sense in his arguments. Taking this further about his previous argument on ‘India taking a quantum leap in the wrong direction after 2014’, he stood by his point and added that ‘Dalits and minorities have become victims of organised killing’ atContinue Reading
Justice Rajavijayaraghavan has directed the priest to surrender his passport, cooperate in the investigation Continue Reading
Mumbai: As many as 19,799 children died in Maharashtra between April 2017 and March 2018 due to various reasons, including poor weight and respiratory illnesses, Health Minister Deepak Sawant has said. The main reasons of death during the period were poor weight at the time of birth, premature delivery, contagiousContinue Reading
Deoria: A probe was ordered against a government primary school in the state of Uttar Pradesh for following a peculiar practice of remaining closed on Fridays instead of Sundays, an official said . Acting on a complaint against the principal of the school in Navalpur in Deoria, district magistrate SujitContinue Reading
