A Madurai court on Monday, April 6, sentenced nine police personnel to death for the custodial torture and murder of trader P. Jayaraj and his son J. Benniks, who died in June 2020 after being detained at the Sathankulam police station in Thoothukudi district. The trial lasted more than five years and examined over 100 witnesses.
A suspected rocket attack on a civilian home in Manipur’s Bishnupur district in the early hours of Tuesday, April 7, killed two young children and critically injured their mother, triggering violent protests across the Imphal Valley that left additional civilians dead and pushed authorities to impose an internet shutdown across five districts.
Unidentified individuals vandalised and set fire to the Executive Officer (Town) office under the District Council Administration in Churachandpur’s Hiangtam area on April 2, even as Union Home Minister Amit Shah and Manipur Chief Minister Yumnam Khemchand Singh were meeting in New Delhi the previous day to discuss restoring peace in the
As the Lok Sabha deferred debate on the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2026 today amid opposition protests, three of India’s major Christian organisations separately raised serious objections to its provisions, warning that the legislation could strip faith-based institutions of assets built over decades and cripple services to the country’s most vulnerable communities.
The Narendra Modi government on Wednesday deferred debate on the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2026, in the Lok Sabha following a fierce opposition protest inside Parliament and sustained pressure from Kerala’s Christian leadership, with the BJP’s own Kerala unit recommending that the Bill be held back ahead of the April 9 state elections.
Tennis legend Leander Paes joined the Bharatiya Janata Party on Tuesday, March 31, at the party’s headquarters in New Delhi, days before the West Bengal Assembly elections are due.
Christians across India observed Palm Sunday on March 29 with processions and special services, but nowhere did the occasion carry a sharper edge than in Manipur, where thousands of displaced Kuki-Zo families marked the beginning of Holy Week still unable to return to their homes amid the ongoing ethnic conflict.
The CPI(M) has launched a two-pronged attack on the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2026, with both the party’s general secretary and its Rajya Sabha leader writing separately to the Prime Minister and the Home Minister demanding its withdrawal.
Two Christian men from Janjgir-Champa who have been holding prayer meetings at their home since 2016 won relief from the Chhattisgarh High Court, which ruled that no prior permission is needed to pray in a private residence.
Nepal’s police detained former Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli and Nepali Congress leader and former home minister Ramesh Lekhak on Saturday morning, March 28, in connection with a culpable homicide case arising from the deaths of 77 people during the youth-led protests of September 2025.
The Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2026, introduced in the Lok Sabha on Tuesday, March 25, by Minister of State for Home Affairs Nityanand Rai on behalf of Home Minister Amit Shah, has drawn immediate and fierce opposition from the Catholic Church, political parties, and civil society organisations, who warn that it hands the government sweeping powers to seize the assets of minority institutions and NGOs. Listed as Bill No. 97 of 2026 under the Ministry of Home Affairs, the b
The Allahabad High Court on March 18, 2026, dismissed a petition filed by the Reverend Father Vineet Vincent Pereira, a Catholic priest from Mau district in Uttar Pradesh, refusing to quash a criminal case registered against him under Section 295A of the Indian Penal Code. Justice Saurabh Srivastava, in a single bench ruling stated that the allegations against the priest prima facie fall within the ambit of the provision and that the matter must go to trial.
