Margao: The annual feast of the Pentecost was celebrated at the Holy Spirit Church, Margao. In his homily, the main celebrant at the solemn concelebrated feast mass at 9.30am, rector of the Rachol Seminary, Fr Aleixo Menezes emphasised upon the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit — wisdom, understanding, counsel,Continue Reading
Dubai: A luxury hotel in the UAE has employed eight cats to help its employees beat work-related stress, a media report said today. The Abu Dhabi-based hotel said the felines were recruited as part of its “office cat” policy to assist employees in unwinding and increasing productivity. Guests visiting theContinue Reading
Emphasising on the relevance of Indian music and its diversity, the prime minister said, “Hindustani music of the north, Carnatic music of the south, Rabindrasangeet of Bengal, Jyoti Sangeet of Assam and Sufi music of Jammu and Kashmir, all these musical traditions set the base of our Ganga-Jamuni tehzeeb”Continue Reading
Primitive tribes were kept out of forced sterilization during the EmergencyContinue Reading
BY CHARMY HARIKRISHNAN Cow is meat, not mother. For many Malayalis, this is the delicious, deep-fried truth. We swear by it as we wrap a piece of warm, flaky parotta around dark spicy beef ularthiyathu that gets coated in black pepper, whispers of curry leaves and rubs against white cubesContinue Reading
By Participant Hong Kong — This year Pentecost Sunday has fallen on June 4th. For Hong Kong Catholics and Christians this coincidence is full of meaning. June 4th is the day when more than a 100,000 Hong Kong people every year make memory of the young victims of the TianContinue Reading
The theme of the contest was “Text and Image.”Continue Reading
Satyasundar Barik Bhubaneswar: In dozens of nondescript tribal villages in Odisha’s Rayagada district, every time a woman of the Saura tribe cooks rice for the family, she puts aside a handful of raw rice, which is collected for a community fund from which ‘special’ teachers draw their paltry remuneration. WhatContinue Reading
C.M. Paul Darjeeling – A diocesan social service society in North Bengal orgainsed a 3-day disaster management training in Darjeeling. The Darjeeling Diocesan Social Service Society (DDSSS) Anugyalaya held the training programme on Child Centred Disaster Risk Reduction at Central Heritage Hotel, Robertson Road, Darjeeling from June 1 – 3.Continue Reading
S.R.Praveen Beef, peacock and a heartless Major Gogoi were mere diversions from some really damaging news for the Sanghi Government in the past few weeks. These are some of the things they diverted your attention away from ******************* 1. Major slow down in Indian economy thanks to the dicktator’s hare-brainedContinue Reading