By Deepa Alexander Chennai: Hero of the famed nursery rhyme, part of Passion week lore… In Chennai, the hot cross bun is flavored by Anglo-Indian, Vietnamese and English recipes. “The van used to draw up just around 11 in the morning, when the Stations of the Cross got over,” recallsContinue Reading
By Rachel John New Delhi: Clothes are deeply embedded in the regional and cultural framework of India. But today, they are being used for something far more sinister — religious profiling. Certain clothing items are categorically unsafe to wear in this country because they make you easy targets, as theContinue Reading
New Delhi: The Manipur government has withdrawn a letter issued directing officials to not set up any camps for Myanmar nationals crossing the border into India and to “politely turn away” those seeking refuge. “It appears that the contents of the letter have been misconstrued and interpreted differently. The StateContinue Reading
By Robin Gomes Rome: More than 500 people have been killed in Myanmar in the Military junta’s ruthless crackdown on protests since the Feb 1 ousting of the elected government and their leader Aung San Suu Kyi, a local non-governmental organization has said. As of March 29, as many asContinue Reading
By Nikhila Henry Kochi: What does Moran Mor Ignatius Aphrem II, Patriarch of the Orthodox Church in Antioch of Syria, have to do with Assembly elections in Kerala? A lot. In fact, it is a century old dispute about the Patriarch’s authority which is now driving two Christian factions –Continue Reading
Kasargod: Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan says the Railways Minister Piyush Goyal’s statement on the recent attack on nuns has proved that religious minorities have no protection under the federal government again. While addressing a press conference in Kasargod, northern Kerala, March 30, Vijayan said Goyal’s claim that the nunsContinue Reading
Colombo: Sri Lanka’s catholic minorities on March 29 reiterated their demand for justice in the 2019 Easter Sunday suicide bombings that killed 258 people, including 11 Indians. Nine suicide bombers, belonging to the National Thawheed Jamaat (NTJ) which is linked to the Islamic State, carried out a series of blastsContinue Reading
By Shirin Durban: From grade 6, I went to school in a school bus and came back home in it too. Going in a school bus was more exciting than school in many ways because we got to talk! In school, we were not allowed to talk much and everyContinue Reading
Cairo: Shipping traffic through Egypt’s Suez Canal resumed March 20 after a giant container ship which had been blocking the busy waterway for almost a week was refloated, the canal authority said. The 400-meter long Ever Given became jammed diagonally across a southern section of the canal in high windsContinue Reading
Yangon: Dozens of people have reportedly been killed across Myanmar as soldiers and the police suppressed protests against last month’s military coup. Up through to March 26, the Association of Political Prisoners had verified 328 people killed in the post-coup crackdown in Myanmar. The latest deaths were reported as Myanmar’sContinue Reading
