Kochi: The Kerala High Court has stayed the operation of two controversial orders passed by Lakshadweep’s new administrator Praful Khoda Patel. The first order demanded closure of dairy farms managed by the island’s administration. The second aimed at changing the diet for school children by removing chicken and other meatContinue Reading
By Ram Puniyani Mumbai: One will be amazed to compare the India of today with the same a decade ago. BJP’s getting majority in the Lok Sabha (2014) has changed the political, social and economic scenario in adverse direction. The rising prices, the free fall of economy with GDP atContinue Reading
Kochi: The pandemic has created a demand for portable crematoriums in Kerala with many churches relying on it as an alternative to burying those who succumbed to Covid-19. Covid victims’ families and relatives see portable crematoriums as a viable solution as the units can be used either inside the cemeteryContinue Reading
Dhaka: With no priest to minister and no faithful to pray, an Armenian church in Bangladesh has one last parishioner: a Hindu caretaker doing his “sacred duty” to preserve a relic of the city’s former commercial elite. Shankar Ghosh makes the sign of the cross before opening the entrance ofContinue Reading
New Delhi: The Anti Terror Squad of Uttar Pradesh Police has arrested two clerics from Delhi’s Jamia Nagar area for allegedly converting more than a thousand people to Islam. Senior police officers said they suspect that the duo were acting on directions and monetary support of Pakistan’s ISI or someContinue Reading
By Sujata Jena Bhubaneswar: Thandapani, an 85-year-old man in Tamil Nadu, was found with black fungus in May. The Ear-Nose-Throat doctor treated him with injections that cost 25,000 rupees but could not cure him. By then, the octogenarian had lost his consciousness. His body was swollen, bladder and bowel wereContinue Reading
Vatican City: Pope Francis on June 22 appointed 12 new members of the Vatican’s highest court, the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura, including Cardinal Joseph Tobin of Newark. American Cardinal James Harvey, archpriest of the Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls, and Bishop Mark Bartchak of the DioceseContinue Reading
By Aparna Karthikeyan Sivagangai: “Look out! There goes the miracle bike, driven by a sack of vegetables!” That’s a common shout from young men each time Chandra takes the produce from her farm in Melakadu village to the market in Sivagangai, 15 kilometers away, on her moped. “That’s because whenContinue Reading
By Sujata Jena Bhubaneswar: The Catholic Church in Kolkata on June 21 mourned the death of an outstanding priest, who had played a key role in the administration, governance and pastoral advancement of the Calcutta archdiocese. Archdiocese’s judicial vicar Father John Mohandas died at 6 am on June 21 becauseContinue Reading
Aizawl: A Mizoram minister has announced a cash incentive of 100,000 rupees to a living parent with the highest number of children in his constituency to encourage population growth among the demographically small Mizo communities. Sports Minister Robert Romawia Royte did not mention the minimum number of children. The declarationContinue Reading
