Vatican City: On Monday Pope Francis said that while hunger and undernourishment around the world can be an unsettling thing to confront, we must use this to remind us how these situations are caused – which is through indifference and selfishness. “A glance at the current world situation does notContinue Reading
Qasid Ahmed Siddiqui For the first time in many years, India is garnering global attention for all wrong reasons i.e., murders in the name of cow vigilantism. One can’t imagine any other major event apart from 2012 Gujrat Riots that garnered similar attention internationally and for all wrong reasons; theContinue Reading
New Delhi: The National Commission for Minorities (NCM) on Tuesday “expressed satisfaction” with the action taken by the district authorities and police in the June 22 lynching of 16-year-old Junaid Khan in Ballabhgarh. The commission had sought a report on the incident from Deputy Commissioner of Faridabad, which was discussedContinue Reading
Young girls from India’s remote northeast are lured with promises of good jobs and trafficked to Southeast Asia and the Middle East on Nepalese passports, campaigners say, amid fears traffickers are finding new ways to escape checks. “Over a 100 girls from the northeast and northern part of West BengalContinue Reading
The incident seen as a cowardly act of a few anti-social elements with the intention to disturb the peaceContinue Reading
Panama City: On Monday the Archdiocese of Panama released the official theme song of the next World Youth Day, to be held in Panama Jan. 22-27, 2019. Reflecting the Marian theme of the upcoming international youth gathering, the song is named for the passage in Luke where Mary agrees toContinue Reading
The next meeting of advisory committee has been scheduled for August 3Continue Reading
Swaraj Thapa Jairam Ramesh, the former Congress minister whom I consider a friend, once took me by surprise when he casually asked how often I went home to Kathmandu. Expressing my displeasure, I said I was as Indian as he is and that I hailed from Darjeeling in India whereContinue Reading
Darjeeling: The Gorkhaland Movement Coordination Committee that was set up to spearhead the movement for a separate state and will have its first meeting on July 6 will wrestle with the question of keeping up the morale of the agitators. With the initial wave of agitation already behind them, theContinue Reading
London: He had a great job in a great company, that came with a fat salary and enhanced status. And he was only 22. The next logical step would have been to get married and have kids while ascending the hierarchy at work and climbing the social ladder. But itContinue Reading