India below Bangladesh on healthcare access
2018-05-25
Goa and Kerala had the highest scoresContinue Reading
In India, journalists face slut-shaming and rape threats
2018-05-23
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
Protecting cows may be creating killer dogs
2018-05-23
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
Use art for liberation, Dalit Christian artists told
2018-05-23
The workshop ended with an exhibition of the paintings drawn by the participantsContinue Reading
Delhi archbishop’s prayer for nation triggers BJP rebuke
2018-05-23
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
Majority men, women in India relish meat
2018-05-23
New Delhi: India’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led government has been advocating vegetarianism on grounds of religion and ideology, the latest being an effort by Indian Railways to enforce vegetarian menus on all trains on October 2, Mohandas Gandhi’s birthday. However, around 80 percent of Indian men and 70 percent ofContinue Reading
Get proof to file case against cardinal: Kerala court
2018-05-23
Thiruvananthapuram: A division bench of the Kerala High Court on May 22 reversed a single bench’s order asking police to register an FIR against Cardinal George Alencherry and three others in connection with an alleged illegal land deal in Ernakulam-Angamaly Archdiocese. The division bench had earlier stayed the FIR againstContinue Reading
Kerala: 10 confirmed dead from Nipah virus outbreak
2018-05-22
At least 10 people have now died in the state of Kerala from confirmed cases of the deadly Nipah virus, officials have said. Dozens more have been quarantined amid public panic in the state of Kerala, and a team of experts has been dispatched to the coastal region from India’sContinue Reading
Ex-Mizoram CM files libel case over pastor’s death
2018-05-21
Former Mizoram Chief Minister Zoramthanga has filed a criminal case against a Congress leader for alleging he had a hand in the death of a pastor 10 years ago. Thansanga, an Aizawl-based Congress leader, had in the party’s Mizo language bulletin published a report on the “mysterious death” of ReverendContinue Reading
The silent, praying sisterhood
2018-05-21
If prayers have the ability to change the world by balancing strife with peace, then tucked away in a quiet corner of Vasco’s Chicalim, is a powerful hub generating the much-needed positive energy. The hub is a convent housing the Cloistered Carmel, an order of Roman Catholic nuns, who haveContinue Reading