Vatican City: The Vatican announced Thursday that Pope Francis’ highly anticipated post-synodal apostolic exhortation on the gifts and challenges of family life will be published April 8. Titled “Amoris Laetitia,” on love in the family, the document will officially be presented to journalists next Friday, April 8, in Italian, French,Continue Reading

Kolkata: West Bengal Governor KN Tripathi on Thursday sought a report from the Mamata Banerjee-led government over the flyover collapse in the city that so far has claimed 14 lives. A large chunk, including girders, of the under-construction Vivekananda Flyover in the city’s Posta area collapsed crushing people and vehicles.Continue Reading

Ranchi: School management committees are bringing sweeping changes across rural Jharkhand’s educational institutions and mindsets of people. Under the provisions of Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, every state-run middle school (from Classes I to VIII) is supposed to have the committee, but in reality few did before the Right to Education Act,Continue Reading

The news about the martyrdom of Sr Anselm and her three Missionaries of Charity colleagues in Yemen on March 4 had left me speechless and devastated. “Why Lord? I asked Lord Jesus in anger and frustration. “They lived for you, and for your abandoned and ailing people,” I said withoutContinue Reading

Hyderabad: A 125-foot statue of BR Ambedkar, the architect of the Indian Constitution, will stand in the heart of Amaravati, the new capital of Andhra Pradesh. Chief Minister Naidu, who wants to develop Amaravati as a tourist attraction given its ancient connection with Buddhism, has now decided to develop aContinue Reading