New Delhi: India’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led government has been advocating vegetarianism on grounds of religion and ideology, the latest being an effort by Indian Railways to enforce vegetarian menus on all trains on October 2, Mohandas Gandhi’s birthday. However, around 80 percent of Indian men and 70 percent ofContinue Reading
Thiruvananthapuram: A division bench of the Kerala High Court on May 22 reversed a single bench’s order asking police to register an FIR against Cardinal George Alencherry and three others in connection with an alleged illegal land deal in Ernakulam-Angamaly Archdiocese. The division bench had earlier stayed the FIR againstContinue Reading
New Delhi: Responding to Delhi archbishop’s letter, home minister Rajnath Singh on Tuesday said in India minorities are safe and no one is allowed to discriminate on the bases of caste and religion. “I have not seen the letter, but I want to say India is one of those countriesContinue Reading
An Australian court has found the Archbishop of Adelaide guilty of concealing child sex abuse by a fellow priest in the 1970s. Archbishop Philip Wilson was convicted of failing to inform the authorities of allegations against Fr James Fletcher. He had denied being told about the abuse by some ofContinue Reading
Sixteen-year-old Shivangi Pathak, who has become the youngest Indian girl to climb Mount Everest, has a message for women. She says that women can achieve anything they want if they have the desire. The teen climber from Haryana’s Hisar district reached the top of the mountain on Thursday last week,Continue Reading
At least 10 people have now died in the state of Kerala from confirmed cases of the deadly Nipah virus, officials have said. Dozens more have been quarantined amid public panic in the state of Kerala, and a team of experts has been dispatched to the coastal region from India’sContinue Reading
Rancagua: Chilean Bishop Alejandro Goić Karmelić has suspended several priests after allegations of sexual misconduct were raised against them. He apologized for not following up when the accusations were first brought to his attention. “I would like to ask forgiveness for my actions in this case,” the bishop said in aContinue Reading
Former Mizoram Chief Minister Zoramthanga has filed a criminal case against a Congress leader for alleging he had a hand in the death of a pastor 10 years ago. Thansanga, an Aizawl-based Congress leader, had in the party’s Mizo language bulletin published a report on the “mysterious death” of ReverendContinue Reading
If prayers have the ability to change the world by balancing strife with peace, then tucked away in a quiet corner of Vasco’s Chicalim, is a powerful hub generating the much-needed positive energy. The hub is a convent housing the Cloistered Carmel, an order of Roman Catholic nuns, who haveContinue Reading
London: Newly-wed Meghan Markle, Duchess of Sussex, has promised to give more time to the Indian charity handpicked for donations in lieu of gifts for her royal wedding to Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex on May 19. As the 36-year-old former actress mingled with the 600 guests invited to StContinue Reading
