By Matters India Reporter Varanasi: Amid the gloom of rising Covid-19 death, Christians, Hindus and Muslims on April 19 came together to organize a series of blood donation camps in Varanasi, a major city in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. Opening the first camp in St. Mary’s ConventContinue Reading
Vatican City: Pope Francis’ April 19 and 14 speeches to the public will now be accessible in American Sign Language. The Vatican’s communications office announced the “no one left out” initiative at the end of last month. It is now in an experimental phase. Sr. Veronica Amata Donatello, a memberContinue Reading
New Delhi: Delhi High Court April 19 said both central and Delhi governments failed miserably to deal with the crisis of migrant workers during the nationwide lockdown last year and expressed its concerns on the Covid-related issues like oxygen shortage, and reverse migration of migrant labourers. A Division Bench ofContinue Reading
By Purushottam Nayak Rourkella: The Church in Odisha has mourned the death of the first tribal to become an office of the Indian Administrative Service from the eastern Indian state. Livnus Kindo died of heart attack at 10:30 pm on April 18 in his residence at Rajgangpur in Odisha’s SundargarhContinue Reading
When Chicago shut down last March because of the coronavirus pandemic, Sister Stephanie Baliga was certain the shutdown wouldn’t affect the Chicago Marathon in October. So certain, that she made a pretty crazy promise. “I said in April, ‘I’m so sure that they’re not going to cancel the race, thatContinue Reading
By Francis Sunil Rosario Kolkata: With the death of Archbishop Lucan Sirkar on April 18, the Church in Bengal lost a stalwart leader whose major concern was to build local leadership with local resources. Archbishop Lucas succeeded Archbishop Henry D’Souza on April 14, 2000, and remained Archbishop until Feb 23,Continue Reading
Today, Dominique Dawes is a three-time Olympian and Olympic gold medalist. But back in 1996, she was a teenage girl feeling the weight of the world on her shoulders. “Before the 1996 Olympic games, all of us, we were known as the Magnificent Seven being the first women’s team toContinue Reading
New Delhi: Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on April 18 wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, listing five suggestions to tackle the Covid-19 vaccine shortage in India, which is currently fighting the second wave of the deadly virus. The former PM acknowledged the cloud of uncertainty among the people ofContinue Reading
Adar Poonawalla, the head of the world’s largest vaccine maker (by doses), on April 16, urged US President Joe Biden to lift the embargo on export of vaccine raw materials. The restriction has hit production of vaccines in India. In a tweet posted on social media tagging Biden, the SerumContinue Reading
New Delhi: Delhi residents who have visited the Kumbh Mela in Haridwar or are planning to do so will have to undergo compulsory 14-day home quarantine on their return and upload their details on an official website, the Delhi Disaster Management Authority said in an order. The ongoing Kumbh MelaContinue Reading
