By Amit Chaturvedi New Delhi, Aug 9, 2022: A whopping 85 percent of children in India have reported being cyberbullied as well as having cyberbullied someone, according to a report released by computer security software company McAfee. The India-centric findings are part of company’s global report titled ‘Cyberbullying in PlainContinue Reading
By M L Satyan Bengaluru, July 25, 2022: “Severely abused by husband,” “Beaten and choked by her partner,” “She wanted to leave him, he shot her” – these are just some recent headlines in German newspapers. Violence against women is on the rise in Germany. German authorities report a highContinue Reading
London, June 30, 2022: A special Mass and Vigil will take place in London on July 5 to mark the first death anniversary of Jesuit Father Stan Swamy. Mass will be celebrated at 1:05 pm in Farm Street Church, Mayfair, by Jesuit Father Dominic Robinson. It will be followed byContinue Reading
By Paul Anand New Delhi, Feb 22, 2022: The Islamic Studies Association, Delhi and the Jesuit Secretariat for Service of Faith in South Asia jointly organized a series of webinars to celebrate Human Fraternity Day. Three leading international speakers – Professors Edward Joseph Alam (Notre Dame University, Beirut, Lebanon), GabrielContinue Reading
Nearly 740,000 access deaths in India annually can be attributed to abnormal hot and cold temperatures related to climate change, according to a study published in The Lancet Planetary Health journal. An international team, led by researchers at Monash University in Australia, found that globally more than five million extraContinue Reading
It was three weeks ago when journalists combing obituary pages in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s home state of Gujarat found authorities were concealing Covid-19 deaths that people started asking hard questions about the real number of Indian coronavirus fatalities. Now, epidemiologists and scientists around the world are struggling to solveContinue Reading
Old Goa: The Museum of Christianity is located in the 17th-century Santa Monica Monastery in the heart of Old Goa, a beautiful district of churches, monuments and ancient monastery ruins. The church is attached to a three-story stone building. The museum is in the strait. Over the past three years,Continue Reading
By Sujata Jena India is leading the world in the number of coronavirus infections. On May 2, Reuters reported that India’s new daily COVID-19 cases passed 400,000 for the first time, as the second wave worsened. Reuters reported May 6 with information from India’s Health Ministry that a “record 412,262Continue Reading
New Delhi: Finland has been declared the world’s happiest country for the fourth year running, according to the World Happiness Report 2021 published by the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network. At the same time, India ranked 139th out of the 149 countries in the list — a slight improvementContinue Reading
Experts have expressed serious concerns over the downgrading of India’s status from ‘the world’s largest democracy to an ‘electoral autocracy’ and from a “Free Country” to a “Partly Free Country” in the international reports. They expressed their views in a group discussion held by Jamaat-e-Islami Hind (JIH) here on theContinue Reading
