By Paul Kane Washington: The US Senate on April 22 overwhelmingly passed legislation designed to more forcefully investigate hate crimes, particularly those against Asian Americans after the March 16 shootings at three Atlanta spas and a wave of violence following the spread of the coronavirus from China last year. “ToContinue Reading
Mumbai: Mayur Shelke, a pointsman with Central Railway who was hailed as a hero for risking his own life to save a child at a Mumbai station, is earning plaudits online once again. This time, for donating a share of his award money to the very child he had saved.Continue Reading
New Delhi: Indian Islamic scholar and peace activist Maulana Wahiduddin Khan has died in the capital New Delhi after contracting novel coronavirus, his family members announced. He was 96. Khan was recently admitted to a hospital in New Delhi after testing positive for COVID-19. “The great Islamic scholar Maulana WahiduddinContinue Reading
By Saji Thomas Bhopal: Two Catholic nuns and two postulants were forced out of a train March 19 and paraded to a police station in Jhansi, a town in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. They were interrogated for five hours for allegedly violating a state law against forcibleContinue Reading
By Lissy Kurian Panaji: On Easter Monday when a young woman with her mother came to our house asking for me, I was perplexed. How did she get my name and find our house, I wondered? But I kept my queries to myself recognizing an emergency. Hardly had she takenContinue Reading
By Courtney Mares Rome: Cardinal Oswald Gracias, head of the Catholic Church in India, will be among more than 25 cardinals and bishops attending the International Eucharistic Congress in Budapest. The 52nd edition of the Congress, a celebration of the Real Presence of Jesus Christ in the Eucharist with participantsContinue Reading
Amritsar: The Border Security Force (BSF) wants to register a case against an intruder from Pakistan, that happens to be a pigeon, while the Punjab Police are seeking a legal opinion on this. The pigeon landed on the shoulder of a BSF soldier at the Rorawala post in Amritsar, Punjab,Continue Reading
By George Cheriyan Bengaluru: Earth Day, celebrated every year on April 22, will see this year again more than 1 billion people participating in various activities around the world to draw attention to the urgency of environmental degradation and the need for immediate action highlights environmental issues including loss ofContinue Reading
Nashik: Disruption in the supply of medical oxygen has killed at least 22 patients in a hospital in western India’s Maharashtra state, officials have said. Suraj Mandhare, an official in the Nashik district of Maharashtra, said an oxygen tanker leaked outside a hospital in the city, halting its supply forContinue Reading
Gwalior: Three migrant workers were killed and at least seven injured in Madhya Pradesh’s Gwalior district after the heavily overcrowded bus they were travelling in overturned on an accident-prone stretch at Jourasi Ghati around 8.30 am April 20. Local police said the bus was carrying around 100 migrant workers whoContinue Reading
