Category: National

New Delhi (Matters India): Just 4.6 percent of all rural households in the country pay income tax while such households with salaried income are close to 10 percent, the first Socio Economic and Caste Census released in eight decades said...

Bhubaneswar (Story- Matters India): Xavier University, India’s first Jesuit university, opened its communication department Thursday in the presence of a people from film and academic circles. Archita Sahu, a popular actress of Odia film industry, opened Xavier School of Communications...

According to a reply procured under RTI, traffic can be stopped only for the President, the Vice President, the PM and visiting foreign dignitaries who are given President and PM level security cover. Vinita Deshmukh   (This information was passed to us by...

“Child slavery is a crime against humanity. Humanity itself is at stake here. A lot of work still remains but I will see the end of child labour in my lifetime,” said Kailash Satyarthi, who, along with Malala Yuzafzai of Pakistan, shared...

Christian Dalits in India filed a complaint on Tuesday with the United Nations accusing the Holy See of not doing enough to curb discrimination faced by “untouchables” within the Catholic Church. A delegation of 22 people from the Dalit Christian...

Father Deepak Thomas will also serve as the national youth director of ICYM, executive secretary for Activ8 Foundation (R) organizations under CBCI in India. Bangalore: (UCAN) Carmelite Father Deepak K J Thomas will take charge as the secretary of the...

New Delhi (Story: Matters India) — Fresh fears about risks to women’s health by allowing Ayush doctors to conduct abortion and ambiguity on the proposed extension of gestation period may force the government to keep the Medical Termination of Pregnancy...

“The biggest achievement of this government is that not a single scam has happened in one year of the NDA rule,” thundered the BJP top brass from roof-tops as the government celebrated its anniversary last month. Even before the ink that...

Rules prohibit government employees holding positions in religious and sectarian organizations.  Madurai: (UCAN) A Church of South India parishioner has moved the High Court in Tamil Nadu against government employees holding positions in his Madurai-Ramnad diocese in violation of state rules. The...

CCV wishes to share Truth only! Will Corporate Media  Never tell us the truth?            (Note: This is a forwarded message. Corporates are business people who are after profit for oneselfand therefore not primarily for truth at the service of the...

Story By: mattersindia.com     Panaji– Goa Archbishop Filipe Neri Ferrao on Saturday said “clouds of fear and insecurity” were looming large over the minorities in the country while expressing solidarity with a 48-year-old Catholic nun from Raipur who was gang...

Madurai — The Madurai bench of the Madras high court on Thursday stayed defamation proceedings pending against Sahitya Akademi award-wining Tamil writer Joe D’Cruz in the Judicial Magistrate Court II in Tuticorin. General secretary of the Fishermen Liberation Movement V...

Namakkal (Story – Matters India) — A young engineer in Tamil Nadu, who was found dead on railway tracks on Wednesday afternoon, was killed for speaking to an upper caste girl, his family alleges. Hours before his body was found,...

Dindigul (Story – Matters India): A meeting of the Tamil Nadu Minorities Commission on Tuesday heard several people accusing the Churches in India of discriminating their Dalit members. Dalit Christians are denied even basic rights and the upper caste Christians...

Attack comes just months after gang-rape of elderly nun. New Delhi (Story- UCAN):  Some 3,000 people joined a rally on Sunday to protest the sexual assault on a Catholic nun in Raipur, demanding immediate arrest of those responsible for the...

(Story by Matters India) Raipur: A 47-year-old nun was found semi-clad, unconscious with her hands tied inside a Church-managed medical center at Pandri in Raipur on Saturday. Police said the nun first said she was raped, but later claimed it...

Patna (Matters India): Two young Muslim “yoga gurus” chosen to lead a top of level Yoga Day program in Patna on Sunday say they want to give such lessons to India’s President and Prime Minister. Reshma Khatoon and Bismillah Khatoon...

Gargi Parsai in The Hindu, June 19, 2015 Resignation of Vasundhara Raje, Sushma Swaraj sought As the Opposition questioned the probity claims of the Narendra Modi government over “Lalitgate” and the Bharatiya Janata Party maintained silence, the Rajasthan unit of...

Marriage in Kerala has become an expensive business. If engagement, in Christian tradition, was restricted among close relatives some 40 years back, now it is as celebrative as the main event itself. Where the girl is covered in gold and painted...

Puri Shankaracharya Swami Nischalananda Saraswati said foreign conspirators want to destroy all Indian symbols. New Delhi (UCAN):  Puri Shankaracharya Swami Nischalananda Saraswati on Wednesday claimed that India was being run by "directionless Christian, Communist and Muslim systems" and its democracy...