In this opinion piece, Fr Cedric Prakash SJ touches upon several events that have occurred in the first two weeks of May, most disturbingly the violence in Manipur, also asking some searching questoins The first eleven days of May 2023 have, in many ways, been a defining period of Indian history. Plenty has happened in […]
As one documentary film maker put it ,”The only way to control plastic is to ban it’, and the MP High Court has done just that. In Madhya Pradesh, you will no longer send your child to school with a plastic lunch box, so the court has ordered. The Madhya Pradesh High Court has passed […]
A 16 year old boy in Madhya Pradesh died of a heart attack while playing the popular game Player Unknown Battlegrounds known as PUBG for six hours straight, according to news reports. He was a swimmer and had no heart complaints. Gaming disorder struck this teenager down. The decreased, identified as Furkhan Qureshi, was a […]
The recent attack by so-called cow vigilantes in Madhya Pradesh has brought a call by the Catholic Archbishop of Bhopal for stringent action to ensure peace in India’s multi-faith society. About a week ago, police in the Seoni district of the central state of Madhya Pradesh detained five people for beating up a Muslim man […]
MP government mulling to ban PUBG (Player Unknown Battle Ground) the battle game that is widespread across the world and has triggered controversy for its “violence and addictive nature” The government says it has received several complaints that youngsters are addicted to the online game that is affecting their board exam. During a reply to […]
Weeks after returning to power in Madhya Pradesh, CM Kamal Nath has banned the further payment of monthly pension to those detained during the Emergency under the Maintenance of Internal Security Act (MISA) and Defence of India Rules (DIR). According to the reports, CM Kamal Nath is set to introduce a proposal that will change the […]
A Catholic school in Dewas district of Madhya Pradesh is being investigated after three Hindu teachers complained against the school’s authorities for allegedly hurting their religious sentiments. The administration of Dewas district in the state Oct. 7 ordered a probe by an education officer into the allegations against the Holy Trinity School. The teachers — […]
At least 15 girls go missing every day in Madhya Pradesh, according to state crime records bureau (SCRB), 2015. Most of these girls are aged of 14-18 years. These statistics from the state were in the news on International Missing Children’s Day. At least 8059 children went missing last year of which 5,740 were girls and 2,319 boys – […]
In yet another dastardly deed, a girl was stabbed to death by her father and uncle on Friday in a suspected case of “honour killing” in Gwalior in (Madhya Pradesh). Police said the victim, ‘Seema’, was killed at a shelter for women in the Hazira area of the city, more than 400km from capital Bhopal. […]
Girls married to Gond bridegrooms in Madhya Pradesh’s Mandla district, will never ever end up as widows. According to their tradition, if a woman’s husband dies, she is married to the next bachelor in the family – regardless of age. If there are no eligible boys, the village elders (usually a woman) will present the woman with […]
BHOPAL (Madhya Pradesh): Here is another ‘freak mobile tragedy’. A 7-year-old boy lost all the fingers of his right hand after a mobile phone exploded in his hands in Rajgarh district on Monday. The incident took place at Bilapura village under Pachor police station of the district at 8 am. Ajay, son of […]
BHOPAL: It’s good news for a young bachelor from Indore, who can adopt a child of his choosing at last. 28-year-old Aditya Tiwari, who works for an MNC in Pune, has been trying to adopt 16-month-old Binney from September 2014. He had to fight with authorities for the child suffering from Down’s syndrome and a […]
