New Delhi: The gangrape and torture of a Dalit woman in Uttar Pradesh that led to her death has triggered nationwide outrage. The 19-year-old woman died September 29, two weeks after she was allegedly gang-raped and strangled by upper caste men in the northern Indian state’s Hathras district. District PoliceContinue Reading
New Delhi: President Ram Nath Kovind has signed all three controversial farm bills that are at the center of a huge political storm in India. Flagging the bills as “historic” reforms in the agriculture sector, the federal has said it would help the country’s farmers proceed into the 21st century,Continue Reading
New Delhi: Catholic nuns working among distressed women have joined social activists to welcome a recent Supreme Court order to aid commercial sex workers, one of the groups made most vulnerable during the coronavirus pandemic. “We wholeheartedly welcome the Supreme Court verdict in favor of sex workers,” Says Sister ThresiammaContinue Reading
Kolkata: The music department of a school in Kolkata has engineered the launch of a project where artists from across the globe come together to spread the message of love, hope and unity. “Artists from Japan to Brazil from Canada to Australia have come together to share just one messageContinue Reading
Thiruvananthapuram: The southern Indian state of Kerala has won a United Nations award for its “outstanding contribution” towards the non-communicable diseases-related sustainable development goals. The UN Interagency Task Force (UNIATF) award this year on prevention and control of non-communicable diseases was announced September 24 by World Health Organization director-general TedrosContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, Sept 24, 2020: A Catholic nun, who has promoted “Clean India Campaign” in Manipur, was among 42 people who on September 24 were awarded by President Ram Nath Kovind. The president conferred the National Services Scheme Awards for the year 2018-2019 on Sister WilliamContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, Sept 23, 2020: Evangelical Fellowship of India (EFI) has called on the Lok Sabha Speaker to expunge remarks of a member against Graham Stuart Staines who was burned to death along with his two sons, in Odisha, eastern India, 21 years ago. The ChristianContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Bengaluru, Sept 22, 2020: Father Paul Achandy, the former prior general of the Carmelites of Mary Immaculate, has taken over as the new Chancellor of Christ University in Bengaluru. Father Achandy, on assuming office on September 21, addressed the faculty and students of the university. TheContinue Reading
By Michael Ani Jalandhar, Sept 20, 2020: The Green Revolution of the 1970s had enabled the state of Punjab along with Haryana to produce the maximum food grains for the entire nation. The successive governments contributed much to build up the infrastructure for a well-organized Agriculture Produce Marketing Committee (APMC)Continue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Rajkot, Sept 19, 2020: A Catholic woman, who has lived as an acetic among wild animals in a Gujarat forest for 41 years, has been hospitalized. Sadhvi (ascetic) Prasanna Devi “is in a critical condition,” Carmelite Father Vincent Kannatt of the Junagadh parish in Rajkot whereContinue Reading