By Dr. Ambrose Pinto SJ Three years ago the BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party) came to power with a promise to the nation that they will provide a corruption free government. The UPA (United Progressive Alliance) headed by the Congress was nationally perceived as corrupt especially in its last year of governance.Continue Reading

MANGALURU: Bishop Aloysius Paul D’Souza of Mangalore on Saturday condemned the frequent incidents of corporal punishment meted out to the students in the Catholic Educational Institutions in Dakshina Kannada. Replying to a query at a press conference on why there are repeated incidents of corporal punishments, which is a violationContinue Reading

MUMBAI: Some 10,000 Catholics assembled in the grounds of Don Bosco School on Jan. 28 to watch Fr Allwyn D’Silva and Fr Barthol Barretto consecrated auxiliary bishops of Bombay by Cardinal Oswald Gracias. The appointments were announced by Pope Francis December 20. Both Fr Allwyn and Fr Barthol are grassrootsContinue Reading

New York : Silicon Valley heads have slammed US President Donald Trump’s temporary ban on refugees and many Muslims from entering the United States, fearing it could prevent them from accessing a global reservoir of talent. The sweeping immigration crackdown moved many tech bosses to criticize measures that could impactContinue Reading

By: Dr. George Jacob. Ever since I’ve been rendered a ‘non-operating surgeon’ thanks to a stroke, I’ve been working as an ‘ICU Doctor’, managing post-operative patients in the Surgical ICU of the hospital I work in. Over ten years down the line, my life as a doctor in the ICUContinue Reading

By: chhotebhai While writing about the Republic Day Parade (RDP) last year I said that I missed the rich timbered voice of Rini Simon-Khanna.  I had also hazarded a guess that this year the Chief Guest would be the Emir of Kuwait .  After watching this year’s RDP I gotContinue Reading