Guwahati: Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal has asked the state home department to set up special women police battalion to curb increasing crimes against women. Sonowal on March 17 directed the home department to constitute a high level committee with it as the nodal agency to carry out anti-trafficking drivesContinue Reading

Forty-five women became nuns in Britain in 2015, 14 of them under 30 years old. That’s the highest number who have taken orders in 25 years. Not many 29-year-old women would abandon a career in academia and get themselves to a nunnery. But that’s exactly what Theodora Hawksley did –Continue Reading

An inter-faith Charter promoting palliative care for the elderly across the world has been launched at the Vatican. Religious leaders, patients and medics attended a conference to discuss future challenges of a rising elderly population and an increasing demand for social care, The 2-day event, organized by the Maruzza FoundationContinue Reading

At 129 minutes William “Bill” Condon’s Beauty and the Beast may appear to the common masses as a classic told, Beauty and the Beast by Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont; and retold, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast (1991) and yet again re-told (2017); but for a collector like me and manyContinue Reading

Madrid, Spain : “Emilia is a martyr of suffering, because she died some 10 days after giving birth for lack of medical attention, clutching her rosary. She had a chance to apostatize, to betray the one who taught her the faith, but she did not. She’s an example,” Historian MartinContinue Reading

Abuja:  Nigeria has called in the Indian envoy in the country to register its protest over an attack on four Nigerian students in Greater Noida and sought ”diligent prosecution” against the perpetrators. The Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Olushola Enikanolaiye, sought action by the Indian government at a meetingContinue Reading

Reviewed by: Mohsin Khan Hardly a day passes without the media reporting some violent barbarity somewhere in the world being committed in the name of Islam. Today, there is an urgent need for popularising an alternate understanding of Islam, one rooted in a commitment to peace, nonviolence and inter-community harmony.Continue Reading