By Jacob Koshy New Delhi: There is no difference in mortality among Covid-19 patients in the first and second wave, say leading doctors in charge of India’s national Covid management strategy. There was a relative increase in instances of those manifesting shortness of breath as a symptom of the infectionContinue Reading
Allahabad: Amid a surge in coronavirus cases, the Allahabad High Court on April 19 directed the Uttar Pradesh government to impose a week-long lockdown in Lucknow, Varanasi, Kanpur Nagar, Gorakhpur and Allahabad. A two-judge bench comprising justices Siddhartha Varma and Ajit Kumar passed the order on a PIL on theContinue Reading
Wales: In February this year, Shirley Murphy became the first Indian origin priest. She is now the chaplain to the bishop of St Davids, Wales, in the United Kingdom. It is an irony that she laughs at. “It was the Welsh who converted us, six generations ago. They taught usContinue Reading
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
