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Why nuns’ arrest in Chhattisgarh has put Kerala BJP in a bind

Kerala BJP chief Chandrasekhar met the Christian community leader Friday to assure him that the Centre will ensure the nuns get bail, but differing voices are emerging from within party.

CPI(M)’s Brinda Karat slams arrest of Kerala nuns, calls it ‘targeted attack’ on Christianity

Two Kerala-based nuns were arrested at Durg Railway station in Chhattisgarh on 25 July over charges of human trafficking and religious conversion.

Nun-lawyer pulls out of SC Bar race after Vatican denies permission — ‘no bar in canon law’

Jessy Kurian, only nun practising law from Saint Ann of Providence, says Church allowed her to become member of National Commission for Minority Educational Institutions in 2008.

India’s Buddhist nuns you don’t hear about: Landladies, loan sharks, merchants

Voices of Buddhist women have been lost to us. But new research reveals they had brilliant commercial and religious minds, and shaped the financial fortunes of the Buddhist sangha.

Impulse, rage, abuse—a nun tells the story of life in Kerala church

A 2019 bestseller in Malayalam, 'In the Name of the Lord' is a harrowing, moving account of Sister Lucy Kalapura's life as a Catholic nun.

On Camera

How Saba Azad became the accidental voice of Bengal’s language protests

Bengalis are hurt over a statement by the Delhi police calling Bangla a ‘Bangladeshi language’ and the lines Azad sang have unwittingly become protest music in Kolkata now.

Slashing GST on waste can unlock Rs 1.8 lakh crore, high tax hurting circular economy goals—CSE

Centre for Science and Environment in new report makes case for rationalising GST on waste material, saying most informal operators can’t afford high tax & it also hinders recycling.

President awards 1st set of Sarvottam Yudh Seva medals since Kargil, 7 honoured for leading Op Sindoor

This year, the Indian Air Force received four of the seven awards, followed by the Indian Army with two medals, and the Indian Navy with one. 

Modi’s ready to risk it all for farmers. Farm reform can answer Trump with new Green Revolution

Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.