Floods, landslides kill dozens as monsoon rains lash northern, eastern India
Lucknow/Bhubaneshwar, India Reuters Floods and landslides triggered by intense monsoon rains killed at least 50 people in northern and eastern India over the last three days, officials said on Sunday. The rains overwhelmed hundreds of villages, sweeping away houses and leaving residents stranded as rescue crews have been racing to evacuate survivors. A general view […]
Wow!: Electric scooters for nurses speed up healthcare in Indian mining hub
ANURADHA NAGARAJ, of the Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on how a new state initiative looks to improve access to medical care, particularly for communities impacted by years of mining…
COVID in India: Pandemic drives more people to risk lives in illegal mica mines
ROLI SRIVASTAVA, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on how the coronavirus pandemic has pushed more people into illegal mica mining…
Former child miner wins Diana award for setting up school in India
Mumbai, IndiaThomson Reuters Foundation A former child miner who set up a school in his village in eastern India to save other children from that fate has been named among the winners of an award set up in Princess Diana’s memory. Neeraj Murmu, 21, started the school four years ago in Jharkhand, one of India’s […]
INDIA: GLOBAL SPOTLIGHT ON ILLEGAL MICA MINES DRIVES VILLAGERS TO HIDE DEATHS
ROLI SRIVASTAVA, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports that people are still dying in illegal mica mines despite promises by authorities to clean up the sector…
CHILD LABOUR: WITH NEW DATA, INDIA LOOKS TO FIGHT EXPLOITATION IN MICA MINES
ROLI SRIVASTAVA reports for the Thomson Reuters Foundation…
“Total impunity” in India, as Muslims and Christians “bear brunt of ruling ideology”
World Watch Monitor Frequent reports of violent attacks against India’s religious minorities show the “total impunity” enjoyed by their Hindu nationalist attackers, says one civil rights activist. In one recent attack, a pastor, his wife and their congregation were attacked at their ‘house church’ in India’s southern Tamil Nadu state on Sunday, 8th July, advocacy […]
Mother Teresa charity home “sold babies” in India – claims
Thomson Reuters Foundation Indian authorities said on Thursday they have sealed a home run by Mother Teresa’s religious order and charged a nun and one other person with baby trafficking. The home in eastern India’s Jharkhand state is run by Missionaries of Charity, the order set up by Mother Teresa in India, and provides shelter […]
Christian Solidarity Worldwide calls for release of four Christians arrested on anti-conversion charges in India’s Jharkhand state
UK-based religious freedom advocacy Christian Solidarity Worldwide has called for the release of four Christians who were arrested in the Indian state of Jharkhand in late May on anti-conversion charges. CSW says local sources have informed them that charges against the four – arrested on 29th May – were false and stemmed out of opposition to […]
Tributes paid to Indian pastor beheaded by suspected Maoists
World Watch Monitor The body of a pastor was found beheaded on the shore of a reservoir in eastern India on Wednesday, hours after he was abducted by around 25 masked men whom police believe to be Maoists. Residents of Kubasal village, in the Tamar area of Jharkhand state, identified the body lying on the […]