Geneva:India is among top three countries after the Philippines and China where large number of people were forced to flee their homes due to disasters as 19.3 million people were displaced globally last year alone, a Norway-based global humanitarian group’s report said today. In the last seven years between 2008Continue Reading
More than 200,000 Germans formally left the Catholic Church in 2014, accelerating the downward trend in the Catholic proportion of the country’s population. Germans who are officially enrolled in congregation are subject to a “church tax,” and so disaffected Catholics have an incentive to drop their registration, rather than simplyContinue Reading
New Delhi — A 16-year-old girl in South Delhi’s Mehrauli area was dragged to a park and raped by two youths on July 6. The victim was returning home via an unlit lane after her tuition classes at around 7.30 pm when the accused and his friend raped her. EveryContinue Reading
Bhopal: The Archdiocese of Bhopal organized unique Bible hand writing event in Hindi in which all 1334 chapters of the Bible were reproduced in a bid to introduce the local population about the manner in which the Bible used to be written in the ancient time here on Sunday. TheContinue Reading
Alappuzha — The Viswha Hindu Parishad (VHP) on Sunday ‘converted’ 39 people from 11 dalit Christian families to Hinduism as part of its controversial ghar wapsi programme in Kerala’s Alappuzha district on Sunday. The ceremony was held from 6 am to 10 am at Nallaveetil Bhadrakali temple near Cheriyanadu inContinue Reading
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Their vehicle overturned while they returning after monthly recollectionContinue Reading
Divar: The centuries old ancestral house of Fr Jacome Gonsalves stands majestically in the heart of the island, but a few residents learnt more about the great missionary’s life and work in Sri Lanka than at home. The islanders can hardly be blamed for it. The illustrious son of DivarContinue Reading
Chandigarh: Previous owners of the land over which Industrial Model Township (IMT) Rohtak was built were stunned after they received cheques for Rs 2, Rs 5, Rs 10 and Rs 12 as royalty from the Haryana State Industrial and Infrastructure Development Corporation (HSIIDC). Their land was acquired in 2006. WhileContinue Reading
Mumbai: Sunil Yadav does not believe in heaven and hell. But he knows what hell feels like “Narak” is the word he uses to describe what it was like the first time he waded through open sewers with floating garbage and dead rats when, at 25, he took over hisContinue Reading
