Kohima: Churches in Nagaland Friday organised a motorbike rally to spread the message: “Election is a sacred duty for Christians”. The state assembly election is due early next year. The apex church body Nagaland Baptist Church Council (NBCC) supported by other Christian organisations have been holding awareness campaigns to haveContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi: An open letter from 101 senior Christian intellectuals wants Church leaders in India to support civil society’s struggle to safeguard the country’s cultural and religious plurality and diversity. The August 4 letter sent to all Catholic bishops and others urges them to join theContinue Reading
New Delhi: More than half of the languages spoken by India’s 1.3 billion people may die out over the next 50 years, scholars said on Thursday, calling for a concerted effort to preserve the tongues spoken by the nation’s endangered tribal communities. The People’s Linguistic Survey of India (PSLI) raisedContinue Reading
Patna: Jharkhand’s BJP-led government headed by chief minister Raghubar Das on Tuesday cleared the draft of an anti-conversion bill with provisions of jail term up to four years and fine up to Rs 1 lakh for those converting anyone’s religion through force or allurement. With the government planning to introduceContinue Reading
United Nations: India is the world’s third-biggest exporter of beef and is projected to hold on to that position over the next decade, according to a report by the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). The OECD-FAO Agricultural Outlook 2017-2026 report, releasedContinue Reading
Before Independence Day celebrations on August 15, Delhi Police’s special cell today arrested a woman and seized 14 pistols and 14 magazines from her. According to Delhi Police, these arms were meant for supply in Delhi-NCR area. The woman, an alleged arms smuggler, was arrested from Delhi’s Shastri Park areaContinue Reading
Narmada dam oustees in Madhya Pradesh, some of whose districts face the threat of submergence due to closure of the gates of the Sardar Sarovar dam in neighbouring Gujarat, today stood their ground even as the water level in the Narmada river is rising steadily. The state government had askedContinue Reading
Sixteen persons, including 12 pilgrims, were killed and 22 injured in road accidents across Punjab and Haryana on Monday. Seven pilgrims were killed and 12 injured when a pickup van they were travelling in collided with a truck near Dhakwala village on the Meerut-Karnal road. The police said the vehicleContinue Reading
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Spiti’s nearly 12,000 inhabitants, who eke out a living farming green peas and barley, have a much bigger concern: their main sources of water — streams, rivers, ponds — are drying up.Continue Reading