New Delhi: A class 7 student in Hyderabad is giving professors a run for their money as he is giving “design and drafting” lessons to civil, mechanical and electrical engineering students. The child prodigy, who learns designing on the internet, teaches for free to save the engineers from doing “oddContinue Reading
New Delhi, Oct. 31, 2016: The Delhi High Court on October 31 sentenced 16 former Provincial Armed Constabulary (PAC) men in Uttar Pradesh to life imprisonment for killing 42 people in 1987. The court quashed a 2015 trial court judgment that exonerated them of the crime. It directed all theContinue Reading
Houston, Oct. 31, 2018: An Indian student in the US has created a space-detecting algorithm that can help tackle the problem of finding a parking spot by using big data analytics and save a person’s time and money. Sai Nikhil Reddy Mettupally, who is studying at The University of AlabamaContinue Reading
By Srilekha Chakraborty Pakur, Oct. 31, 2018: Khusmi (name changed), stared at me when asked her about the disposal mechanism for sanitary napkins in their schools. “Changing pads? I have never changed in school. I either don’t come to school or if I come, I change when I go backContinue Reading
By Percival Holt Vatican City, Oct. 31, 2018: If I were to express my experience of the Synod on Youth in a sentence, I would say, “It is indeed the work of the Holy Spirit.” I went to the synod expecting it to be like a parliament — 300 peopleContinue Reading
Islamabad, Oct. 31, 2018: . Pakistan’s Supreme Court on October 31 overturned the conviction of a Christian mother facing execution for blasphemy in a landmark ruling that is likely to set off mass street protests by hardline Islamists. . “The appeal is allowed. She has been acquitted. The judgment ofContinue Reading
By Debapriya Sen Vaite New Delhi, Oct. 31, 2018: The winter is settling down in Delhi. As the air is becoming smoky and unhealthy, proportionately, there is steady increase in the number of school children wearing masks while waiting for their school bus during early mornings. Parks will soon beContinue Reading
Chatra, Oct 30, 2018: A 32-year-old journalist of a vernacular daily was allegedly abducted and beaten to death by unidentified people in Jharkhand’s Chatra district. According to Superintendent of Police Akhilesh B Beriar, Chandan Tiwari, who worked for Hindi daily ‘Aaj’, was last seen near his home at around 8Continue Reading
Shillong, October 30, 2018: The Shillong Archdiocese has mourned the death of Fr Varkey Chittoor (88), the last of the three diocesan priests from South India who were the first to come to North East India as missionaries in the then two Catholic Church dioceses of Shillong and Dibrugarh. FrContinue Reading
Hyderabad, October 30,2018: Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC) president N. Uttam Kumar Reddy has made several promises, including Scheduled Castes status to Dalit Christians, free education to the children of pastors, priests and mauzams and construction of houses for all religious leaders. Speaking at a meeting with Christian associations andContinue Reading