By Bikram Keshari Jena Bhubaneswar, March 14, 2020: Rhea Resham Bari is writing a new chapter for her tribal people. The young Ho girl from Odisha has beaten all odds to leave a mark in the fashion technology. Her success has proved one can achieve great heights despite development andContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Salem, March 11, 2020: Bishop Sebastianappan Singaroyan, who resigned as the head of Salem diocese for health reasons, has moved to a parish to work as an assistant pastor. Pope Francis on March 9 accepted the resignation of the 68-year-old bishop and appointed a diocesan administrator.Continue Reading
By Mark Joeverth Zamora Manila, March 10, 2020: Sister Jolly Joseph, a member of Daughters of the Sacred Heart and a missionary from India, has been working in the Philippines for the past ten years. She spends her time as a campus missionary in the Central Colleges of the Philippines,Continue Reading
Vadodara, March 7, 2020: Shivam Solanki, who lost his hands and legs in an accident at the age of 13, is appearing in class 12th Board Exam after learning how to write using his elbows. Shivam Solanki had scored 81 per cent in 10th Board. He has taught himself toContinue Reading
By Augustine Singh Balliguda, Feb 23, 2020: Asmita Digal who became a widow in the anti-Christian persecution of 2008 in Kandhamal district, Odisha, eastern India. The 33-year-old woman is the youngest of five girls and two sons of late Ram Nayak and mother Mabati Nayak. Her father died in 2010,Continue Reading
By Puneet Nicholas Yadav New Delhi, Feb 22, 2020: The Caravan magazine has attracted attention in recent years, both for shining the torch on media itself and for its dogged pursuit of ‘tough’ stories. The magazine’s executive editor Vinod K. Jose talks about the state of journalism and what drivesContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Rome, Feb 4, 2020: Sister Mariam Anupa Kujur is the first member of the Daughters of St. Anne, a Ranchi-based congregation, to receive doctorate in canon law. On Feb 3, Sister Kujur defended her dissertation at the Pontifical Lateran University, Rome. Her thesis was on “RightsContinue Reading
By Palak Agrawal Pune, Jan 10, 2020: Nikhil Prasad Baji has put a stamp on the lines, “Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, shift your energy to what you can create.” The 31-year-old, who was diagnosed with cerebral palsy from birth, fought against the odds to crack theContinue Reading
Bhubaneswar, Jan 9, 2020: Medical negligence in 2003 cost Tapaswini Das her eyesight, but that could not prevent the 23-year-old girl from cracking the Odisha civil services exam. Das, who lost her eyesight in the second grade in Bhubaneswar’s DAV School, secured 161st rank in the 2018 examination when theContinue Reading
By Mirza Mosaraf Hossain Burdwan, Jan. 5, 2010: Samima Khatun, the daughter of an imam from West Bengal’s East Burdwan district, has been awarded a travel grant to present her paper at an international conference in London. The conference is co-organized by Imperial College London and University College London. TheContinue Reading