By Vivek Joseph Hyderabad: A nationwide network of workers organizations on August 19 launched helpline to provide legal aid and redressal for workers in the unorganized-sector in Hyderabad and four other cities in India. The Hyderabad launch took place at the opening of the Telangana chapter of Working People’s CharterContinue Reading
New Delhi: Om Prakash Chautala, former Haryana chief minister, has taken the tenth grade English exam. The 86-year-old politician sat for the exam on August 18 at Arya Kanya Senior Secondary School in Sirsa, a town in the northern Indian state, some 265 km northwest of New Delhi. Chautala hadContinue Reading
Jamshedpur: Daily wage earners in one of the urban slums in the steel city have resolved to follow the ideals of Father Stan Swamy on India’s 75th Independence Day. The spontaneous decision was taken during a resolution meeting organized by Jharkhand Krantikari Mazdoor Union (JKMU) at Adivasi Basti in GreenContinue Reading
Kochi: The 29th Synod of the Bishops of the Syro-Malabar Church got under way on August 16 at its headquarters in Kochi, Kerala. The deliberations of the Synod, led by the Church’s major archbishop, Cardinal George Alencherry, are being conducted online because of the coronavirus pandemic. A total of 61Continue Reading
By M L Satyan Bengaluru: The priest announced that Jesus Christ was coming to church the following Sunday. People turned up in large numbers to see him. Everyone expected him to preach, but he only smiled when introduced and said, “Hello. Everyone offered him hospitality for the night, especially theContinue Reading
By Anuradha Raman New Delhi: As visuals of fleeing residents dominate television screens, with the Taliban having effectively wrested control from the Western-backed government of Ashraf Ghani, thousands of Afghans in India including students across the country watch in fear for the future of women, children and young men. ForContinue Reading
Ramankary: A Kerala church opened the gates of its cemetery to cremate a Hindu woman whose family lacked enough space to conduct the last rites at their modest property. Hindu families in certain rural areas of Kerala do not prefer to conduct the last rites at public crematoriums. So whenContinue Reading
Matters India reporter Siliguri, : A collaborative research study conducted by a college in Darjeeling and another in South America on education in pandemic times and published in Scopus platform is featured in World Health Organisation’s website. Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature: scientific journals,Continue Reading
Jajpur: In a bizarre case of human revenge, a 45-year-old tribal man reportedly bit a snake to death after the latter bit him in a remote village in Odisha’s Jajpur district. Kishore Badra of Gambharipatia village under Salijanga panchayat under Danagadi block was returning home after working in his paddyContinue Reading
By Don Aguiar Mumbai: Is this change becoming reality, as India celebrated 75 years of Independence this August 15? It is time to evaluate the progress of the Constitutional promises of a dignified life to the common man. The right to a dignified life without discrimination against any individual orContinue Reading
