Tokyo: Asia’s largest economies dropped in the World Economic Forum’s latest gender equality ranking, announced on Thursday, with India falling 21 places to 108th. The new Global Gender Gap Index shows that while the region has become a major driver of the global economy, most countries still lag behind when itContinue Reading

Panaji: The faithful chose to go green for All Souls Day, largely keeping away from plastic while decorating the graves of their loved ones. The appeal from the Archdiocese’s Caritas Goa and the Council for Social Justice and Peace to reduce plastic, circulated to all churches and chapels, was readContinue Reading

By Farrell Shah Kolkata: The Archdiocese of Calcutta organised an ecumenical symposium on “Revisiting the Reformation” at St Xavier’s College, Kolkata, October 31. Jesuit father Felix Raj, principal, while welcoming the two keynote speakers Father John Romus and Reverend Sunil Michael Caleb, said, “today is a historic day. For itContinue Reading

C.M. Paul New Delhi – In a keenly contested environmental energy efficiency project presentation a college in the Darjeeling hills is among four selected out of 22 applicants for the Residential Environments Project (known as RESIDE). It is a four-year research project that aims to evaluate the impact of urbanContinue Reading