Ahmedabad: Human Development and Research Center (HDRC), an NGO run by St Xavier’s Non-Formal Education Society, got embroiled in a major controversy over a job advertisement of sanitation worker stating that candidates from unreserved, general category would be given preference for the post. On Wednesday, the notice invited ire fromContinue Reading
Peerumede: It was a day of redemption for a group of petty thieves from a Tamil Nadu village. The three men picked up by the Kerala Police a week after they broke into a church and a church-run school at the border town of Kumily were not prepared for whatContinue Reading
Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir Minister for Social Welfare Sajjad Gani Lone on Thursday said Muslims of Kashmir should be “merged” into the mainstream of the country and provided a “healing touch” as they had “suffered immensely” in the last 20 years. Muslims of the Valley needed to be merged intoContinue Reading
Asian population in the United States grew at 3.4% between July 2014 and 2015, with migration responsible for the majority of the growth, government officials have saidContinue Reading
About 100 clerics in Pakistan have issued a decree seeking a government ban on Ramadan programs of various TV channels, terming them against Shariah. Signed by clerics from Barelvi school of thought and Jamaat Ahle Sunnat, the decreesays as most part of the Ramazan transmission is against Shariah (Islamic law),Continue Reading
From the upcoming BREXIT referendum going down to the wire in the UK according to latest polls, to the rise of Donald Trump in the US, the narrow defeat of the far-right Freedom Party in Austria last month’s elections, and electoral gains enjoyed by Germany’s Alternative for Deutschland and France’sContinue Reading
Guwahati – The oldest missionary in northeast India breathed his last in the early hours of Thursday, 23 June at Salesian Provincial House Guwahati. He was 98 years old. “The Salesian province of Guwahati deeply mourns the passing away of Fr Porcu Mario on June 23, 2016 at 1.40 am,”Continue Reading
Ahmedabad : Ushering in what has been claimed to be an innovative idea, Beetle Smartotels, the first portable concept hotel built completely using shipping containers, opens this month in the Mundra-SEZ in Gujarat. Young hotel entrepreneur Tanmay Bathwal, who runs the firm, is promoting this venture to cater to theContinue Reading
Where were the yogis when Mother Teresa began working among the poorest of the poor in India?Continue Reading
