Deoria: A probe was ordered against a government primary school in the state of Uttar Pradesh for following a peculiar practice of remaining closed on Fridays instead of Sundays, an official said . Acting on a complaint against the principal of the school in Navalpur in Deoria, district magistrate SujitContinue Reading
Toronto: A young woman has died and 13 other victims, including a 9-year-old girl, were injured by gunfire on the busy Greektown strip. The police chief said there was an “exchange of gunfire” and that the alleged shooter — who is now also dead — had used a handgun. ItContinue Reading
Thiruvanathapuram: A day after Malayalam writer S Hareesh withdrew a serialised novel in the wake of threats by Hindu right wing supporters over “offensive” portions it contained, support for the writer emerged from different sections of the society and across political lines. Noted writers, including M Mukundan and K Satchidanandan,Continue Reading
Kochi: The Kerala police has decided to put the Missionaries of Jesus Congregation’s Convent at Kuravilangad in Kottayam district under tight security following an Intelligence report that a senior nun who has charged Jalandhar Bishop Franco Mulakkal of the Latin Catholic Church of raping her is facing threats from hisContinue Reading
Kerala stands as the best governed state in the country said the Public Affairs Index 2018 released by the think tank Public Affairs Centre (PAC) in Bengaluru. “Kerala has topped the Public Affairs Index (PAI) for 2018 as the best governed state for the third consecutive year since 2016 amongContinue Reading
The Catholic church in Cameroon is mourning the death of the parish priest of Bomaka, a district of Buea, the capital of the English-speaking region of South-West Cameroon, who was killed on July 22 by unidentified individuals. “We have received photographs of the body of the deceased priest, Alexander SobContinue Reading
Pope Francis has added an Italian teenager to the list of people he will formally recognise as saints on October 14 during the month-long meeting of the world synod of bishops on young people. During an ordinary public consistory on July 19, Pope Francis announced that he would declare BlessedContinue Reading
This is perhaps the first reaction from the Church hierarchy about the nun’s allegationContinue Reading
By Virginia Saldanha The revelation that 110,333 cases of rape were registered in the country from 2014 to 2016, and 338,954 cases of crime against women were registered in 2016, by federal Minister Kiren Rijiju, does not come as a surprise. In fact, we should remember that these statistics areContinue Reading
By Jeffrey Gettleman and Hari Kumar Hazaribagh: — Jayant Sinha is a Celtics fan. He graduated from Harvard. He worked for McKinsey. Born and raised in India but minted in the United States, he found wealth and success in the Boston area. His American friends say his politics were moderate,Continue Reading