Category: National

Dr Suresh Mathew The BJP has proved its capability to perpetuate a scam with a difference, thereby ‘justifying’ its claim to be a party with difference. Scams occur when fraudulent deals are struck and illegitimate favours are granted. But Vyapam...

New Delhi(Matters India) — Nudged by the Supreme Court, the government has agreed to consider amending the legal provision that compels Christian couples to wait for at least two years for divorce, whereas this period of separation is one year...

By Ritu Sharma (UCAN) New Delhi:  A Catholic school principal apologized after some Muslim girl students had to break their fast during their holy month of Ramadan owing to the “lack of insensitivity of the school head.” Some 40 students of...

India, Bhopal, 15th July 2015: CCV Reporter:   A soft spoken personality and an educationist at heart, Fr. Maria Stephen is the newly appointed Public Relations Officer (PRO) of the all the Christian Dioceses of Madhya Pradesh State and the...

New Delhi  — St Stephen’s, one of Delhi’s top colleges, came in for fresh criticism on Monday with the Supreme Court pulling it up for what it called an unfair internal inquiry against a professor for allegedly making “defamatory remarks”...

Right from the beginning the police had suspected that the raid was different as there was no evidence of the robber's entry or exit point.
 Kolkata: (UCAN) Right from the beginning the police had suspected that the raid was different as...

New Delhi (Story – Matters India)— The lone Christian member in the Indian Council of Historical Research (ICHR) under the Human Resources Development ministry and noted historian, C I Issac, has put up a passionate defence of the Sangh Parivar’s...

The chief minister ordered an inspection of their living quarters after some of the Pakistani Hindus met him and detailed their many problems. New Delhi (UCAN):  Delhi's AAP government said that it will provide help to Pakistani Hindus in the...

Stinging  Rebuke from New York Times          (Note:Corruption scandal of astounding proportions, yet another sordid tale and startling example in corrodes of India’s politics, public is  put at risk by unqualified doctors and professionals whose main asset is their...

The New Indian Express, Editorial, July11/15 (Note: Probity in public life is an easy election propaganda but hard to put into practice as instances one after another like Sushma Swaraj, Vasundra Raje and  now MP governor and CM loudly proclaim. Let...

New Delhi (Story – Matters India): The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India has condemned an attack on a church in West Bengal state on Thursday night. The church is only a few kilometers from Ranaghat where a Catholic nun was...

In the picture: Damaged tabernacle lies in the street outside St Thomas Church in Taherpur, India. (Photo: ucanews.com) The tabernacle was broken open and consecrated host thrown around the compound. Kolkota (UCAN): Police in eastern India have launched an investigation after a...

Some see the judgment as replacing religion-based personal laws.  New Delhi (UCAN):
 A recent Indian Supreme Court ruling that unwed mothers can become the only legal guardian of a child has sparked a debate with some seeing the judgment as...

  The government will finalise the decision on the Western Ghats by August-end. NeDelhi (UCAN):Implementing the Kasturirangan report on the Western Ghats will prevent excessive mining in the region, union Environment and Forests Minister Prakash Javadekar said on Tuesday. He...

Dr Suresh Mathew The latest slogan from the Narendra Modi Government is ‘100 smart cities’. Though the concept lacks clarity, the government has provided a general framework of what it plans to do in the ‘fortunate few cities.’ A 'smart...

Kohima – (UCAN) Archbishop Dominic Lumon of Imphal in Manipur and Bishop James Thoppil of of Kohima in Nagaland have jointly appealed to settle a boundary dispute between the states. In a joint statement both the prelates reiterated the need...

Advani’s hint:   Times of India Editorial, June 30, 2015, (Note: Wise councils of elders are to be taken seriously by all sensible people. Citizens expect  that from their leaders  for the sake of the common weal When leaders areaccused of serious moral...

Editorial in the Hindu, July 4/15               (Note: It looks like the scam of the century in a BJP ruled Madhya Pradesh, going on for 12 years, involving Rs.2000 crores taken as bribes by manipulated fake...

Ghojadanga (MATTERS INDIA) — Some 30,000 Indian soldiers guarding the border with Bangladesh have a new mandate under Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government this year — stop cattle from crossing illegally into the Muslim-majority neighbour. Roughly every other night, troops...

N Delhi: (UCAN). Women’s rights activists have lauded a ruling by India's Supreme Court directing lower courts not to allow rapists to attempt any form of compromise or mediation with their victims.  The top court's July 1 ruling came days after a...