Chennai: Police have launched a hunt for a godman, who cheated an elderly woman of her gold chain after promising to cure her mentally-ill grandson, in Gummidipoondi on Wednesday. Based on the complaint of Mariammal, 56, who lives with her son Palani and mentally-ill grandson after the demise of herContinue Reading
Somalia’s government has banned celebrations of Christmas and New Year in the Muslim majority country, saying the festivities might attract Islamist attacks. “All events related to Christmas and New Year celebrations are contrary to Islamic culture, which could damage the faith of the Muslim community,” the director general of theContinue Reading
Ranchi: This Christmas on Friday, St Mary’s Cathedral on Purulia Road in Ranchi, where Cardinal Telesphore P. Toppo recently opened the Holy Door of Mercy, people from all faiths, including Christians, came to celebrate the day. For Ranchi, like the rest of the world, this was an extraordinary Christmas, after PopeContinue Reading
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The Indian bishops have invited the Pope to canonize Mother Teresa in KolkataContinue Reading
Carol singers included local archbishopContinue Reading
Guwahati: It’s Christmas Eve, and while the whole of Guwahati was in celebration mode, a group of underprivileged children of the city had their share of the celebrations in the form of a river cruise in the Brahmaputra. The 33 children on board the Alfresco were from a school for underprivilegedContinue Reading
Itanagar: Novelist and screenwriter Raymond Thornton Chandler once said: “There is no bad whiskey. There are only some whiskeys that aren’t as good as others.” People in Arunachal Pradesh appear to have taken his words to heart. Data from the National Sample Survey between July 2011 and June 2012 has revealedContinue Reading