Aboard the papal plane: In his five years in office, Pope Francis gained a reputation for tossing protocol and embracing spontaneity. Thursday, he did it again with another papal first: marrying two flight attendants on board his flight from Santiago to Iquique. According to journalists traveling with the Pope, theContinue Reading
By C.M. Paul Bolpur: Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore’s Shantiniketan environs has an added attraction now with the inauguration of a church with interiors decorated with full Tagore motifs. The Infant Jesus Church Bolpur’s interior decor is designed by a Bengali Brahmin from Kolkata specialized in in-cultured church art. Bishop CyprianContinue Reading
Indians still believe son are more valuable than daughtersContinue Reading
New Delhi: His biological mother Anasuiya could never have imagined that Niklaus-Samuel Gugger, whom she abandoned in a hospital 48 years ago just after his birth, would be the first Indian to be elected to the Swiss parliament. Born in CSI Lombard Memorial Hospital, run by Basel Mission, in Karnataka’sContinue Reading
Vivan Eyben Eight Northeastern states of India present an intriguing trend in child mortality, care and health outcomes as revealed in the recently published final report of the National Family and Health Survey 4 (NFHS 4). It was conducted across the country in 2015-2016 and gives details on a hostContinue Reading
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Journalists have been at the receiving end in Bastar region Continue Reading