By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, Nov 11, 2019: The trial of the nun rape case, which was scheduled to begin on November 11, has been postponed. The Additional District and Sessions Judge in Kottayam in Kottayam, Kerala, has now fixed November 30 as the date to begin the trialContinue Reading
by Philip Mathew Kottayam: Sr. Thresiamma Mathew is a women’s rights activist and an advocate of gender equality. She has helped some 2,500 women from economically poor families to become professional masons when it was unthinkable to employ female masons in her home state of Kerala, southern India. Mathew joinedContinue Reading
Kottayam,Kerala: A ward in the district today became India’s first digitalised panchayat ward. Union minister of state for social justice and empowerment Krishan Pal Gurjar inaugurated the website of the first digitalised panchayat ward number 15 of Aymanam grama panchayat at a function held at a temple premises. The ministerContinue Reading
Kottayam,Kerala: The 35th Synod, the highest decision-making body, of the Church of South India (CSI) will begin here on Saturday. Speaking to mediapersons here recently, Bishop Thomas K. Oommen, deputy moderator and head of the Madhya Kerala Diocese (MKD) of the Church, said that over 500 delegates from the 24 diocesesContinue Reading
Kottayam: The members of the CPM in Kottayam district to post 50,000 letters to Prime Minister Narendra Modi urging the government intervention to release the abducted Malayali priest Fr Tom Uzhunnalil. According to CPM district secretary VN Vasavan, these letters will be posted from the 404 post offices in theContinue Reading
