By Lavina D’Souza Mumbai: Rabindranath Tagore once remarked, “I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can’t make it through one door, I’ll go through another door — or I’ll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.” This optimism is whatContinue Reading
New Delhi: A 33-year-old woman in the national capital paid with her life, just because her four-year-old son urinated in front of her neighbor’s house in north-east Delhi’s Aman Vihar. The four-year-old boy’s mother, Savitri Rana, was slashed several times with a razor by a minor who lives in herContinue Reading
By P T Mathew New Delhi: The crisis of credibility is a wake-up call for the Church in India, and the best way to regain is to follow Jesus, who “lived what he taught and what he taught, he lived,” say Catholic theologians in the country. The eroding credibility theContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi: National Solidarity Forum (NSF), comprising more than 70 human rights organization, has set up two awards to honor victims and survivors of the 2008 mass violence in Odisha state’s Kandhamal district. The forum plans to hold a virtual national webinar on August 25 toContinue Reading
Raigarh: A villager was trampled to death by a wild elephant in Chhattisgarh’s Raigarh district on August 11, the second such incident in the region in one month, officials said. Mohitram Yadav (39) was attacked by the jumbo in Ongna village under Dharamjaigarh forest division at around 3 am whenContinue Reading
Bastar: The Chhattisgarh government has been funding tribal communities to develop and maintain their traditional places of worship, known as Devgudis, so that they aren’t lured by anyone to convert to another religion, said state industry minister Kawasi Lakma on Aug. 10. Lakma, a senior Congress leader from Bastar, whichContinue Reading
Kinnaur: Eleven people have died and around 30 are missing after a landslide in Himachal Pradesh’s Kinnaur this afternoon left several vehicles buried under debris. A state-run bus, a truck and a few cars were trapped after the landslide blocked the Reckong Peo-Shimla highway. The bus, travelling to Shimla, reportedlyContinue Reading
By LiCAS.News Islamabad: A Christian woman in Pakistan has been accused of blasphemy and arrested for simply receiving a text message on her mobile phone. Shagufta Rafiq was accused of committing blasphemy and arrested on July 29 in a police raid on her home in Islamabad, said a report fromContinue Reading
Bhopal: The police in Madhya Pradesh have registered 28 cases of forcible religious conversions under the Freedom of Religion law which was passed by the state assembly in March. State Home Minister Narottam Mishra, in a written reply to a question, informed the Vidhan Sabha that 37 accused have beenContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Patna: Students of a Jesuit college in Patna, Bihar, have pledged to protect the environment by conserving nature and all its resources. They were the volunteers of the National Service Scheme volunteers of St Xavier’s College of Management and Technology. They took the pledge during theContinue Reading
