Sitapur: A photograph of Bhagwati Prasad sitting on a wooden stool inside the toilet at his home is being circulated widely on social media. His picture is accompanied by important details, including his Aadhaar and phone number. Prasad is a principal at a state-run school in Uttar Pradesh’s Sitapur andContinue Reading
Panaji: In the wake of the desecration of a holy cross in a South Goa village, a Goa Church body on Thursday questioned police claims of solving cases of earlier desecrations reported from the coastal state. The Council for Social Justice and Peace, a social arm of the Goa Church,Continue Reading
Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India (CBCI) president Cardinal Oswald Gracias met Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on May 24 to discuss issues concerning the Christian community in the country. The meeting between Singh and Gracias, who recently took over as the president of the CBCI, was termed a “courtesy call” by theContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Mumbai: Subramanian Swamy of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party has urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to end India’s relations with the Vatican and close the apostolic nunciature in New Delhi. Swamy, a member of the Rajya Sabha, the upper house in parliament, on May 23 criticizedContinue Reading
the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister said the state government was taking steps to permanently close the plantContinue Reading
Goa and Kerala had the highest scoresContinue Reading
By Rana Ayyub Mumbai: I work as an investigative and political journalist. Two years back, I published a book — after going undercover for eight months — about the complicity of Narendra Modi, now prime minister of India, and Amit Shah, now president of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, inContinue Reading
By Jeffrey Gettleman and Hari Kumar KHAIRABAD: On a recent evening just a few minutes before the sun went down, Sahreen Bano, a 10-year-old girl, walked into a sugar cane field to urinate before going to bed. A pack of wild dogs was waiting for her. The dogs formed aContinue Reading
The workshop ended with an exhibition of the paintings drawn by the participantsContinue Reading
Krishna N. Das New Delhi:The archbishop of Delhi has called for a prayer campaign until the next general election in an unprecedented political intervention, citing a threat to the country’s secular fabric, triggering angry reactions from the ruling Hindu nationalist party. “We are witnessing a turbulent political atmosphere which posesContinue Reading
