Morgan Stanley picks Anahita Tiwari as Head of India Global Centres

Stocks Our Bureau New Delhi | Updated on October 11, 2021 Morgan Stanley has announced the appointment of Anahita Tiwari as the new Head of India Global Centres. Tiwari, who will be based in Mumbai, will be responsible for implementation of the firm’s global growth and deployment strategy in India. She joins Morgan Stanley from…Continue Reading

Targeted civilian killings: Why J&K is witnessing uptick in violence

NEW DELHI: The recent spate of civilian killings in Kashmir has triggered an alarm within the security establishment and refreshed memories of the Valley’s bloody past. As many as 29 civilians have been killed in terror incidents this year, with quite a few of them happening in the last few weeks. Overall, the Valley has…Continue Reading

Families of different faiths swap houses, lives in Ava DuVernay’s ‘Home Sweet Home’

(RNS) — Filmmaker Ava DuVernay has made a career of taking people into unfamiliar — even uncomfortable — places. She took viewers on an adventure through space and time in her film adaptation of “A Wrinkle in Time” and, in “Selma,” on a journey through history into the heart of the civil rights movement. Now,…Continue Reading

‘Hey, isn’t that — ?’ Singer-songwriter Bruce Cockburn goes incognito in worship band

(RNS) — Bruce Cockburn, the Canadian singer-songwriter, had not attended church regularly in more than 40 years when he walked into the Lighthouse Church in San Francisco three years ago. He’d come at the request of his wife, M.J., whose spiritual quest, impelled by the death of a friend, led her to the church. Even…Continue Reading

For Natives, land is sacred. Why aren’t we protecting their religious freedom?

(RNS) — Recently America has been faced with horrific stories of mass graves at Indigenous residential schools. These stories draw our attention again to the injustices long faced by Indigenous communities and are a painful reminder that certain injustices are tangled up with a common misunderstanding: how we define the right to religious freedom. While…Continue Reading

Afghan women have a long history of taking leadership and fighting for their rights

(The Conversation) — Ever since the Taliban recaptured Afghanistan, the question in much of the Western media has been, “What will happen to the women of Afghanistan?” Indeed, this is an important concern that merits international attention. The Taliban has already imposed many restrictions on women. At the same time, however, much of the Western…Continue Reading

Una mujer de Texas perdió la vida hace años por un aborto inseguro. Su hija teme que lo mismo vuelva a suceder

Rosie Jiménez murió a los 27 años por las complicaciones de un aborto inseguro en 1977 en el sur de Texas. Ahora, con las nuevas disposiciones del estado, su hija Monique cree que la historia se podría repetir para mujeres que como Rosie, no pueden costear el procedimiento y tienen que recurrir a clínicas clandestinas…Continue Reading