Washington: Anjali Bharadwaj, an Indian social activist working on issues of transparency and accountability, is one of the 12 “courageous” individuals named by the Biden administration for the newly-instituted International Anti-Corruption Champions Award. According to the State Department, the 48-year-old Indian woman has served as an active member of theContinue Reading
New Delhi: People above 60 years of age and those over 45 with comorbidities will be given Covid-19 vaccination from March 1, the federal government announced February 24. After a Cabinet meeting chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Information and Broadcasting Minister Prakash Javadekar, said that 100 million people wouldContinue Reading
By Seema Chishti New Delhi: The ongoing protests by farmers against the three hastily promulgated agriculture laws have drawn international attention, with the denial of democratic rights to them by the government’s construction of military-grade barriers and shutting down of the Internet at protest sites getting strong statements of supportContinue Reading
Vatican City: Pope Francis has expressed his condolences after three people were killed in an attack on a United Nations convoy traveling in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Luca Attanasio, the Italian ambassador to Congo, died of his wounds from the attack. Vittorio Iacovacci, an Italian Carabinieri officer, and MoustaphaContinue Reading
By Peerzada Ummer, LiCAS News Reporter Renuka Singh, a 35-year-old housewife from India’s northern state of Haryana, vividly remembers the ordeal she experienced when she ran away from her in-laws’ house with one of her daughters. Married for four years, Renuka said she was subjected to extreme abuse from herContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Kochi: The Kerala Catholic Bishops’ Council has asked the state government to withdraw all steps it had taken on deep sea fishing off the coast. The act of the Kerala government to sign a Memorandum of Understanding with a foreign firm without consulting the fishermen communityContinue Reading
Baghdad: When Pope Francis visits Iraq from March 5 to 8, he will meet only the scant remains of a Christian community of two millennia that has been hollowed-out by two past violent decades. After first settling in the fertile plains of Nineveh province before heading for the busy boulevardsContinue Reading
Vatican City: Pope Francis has advanced the sainthood cause of three Italian nuns who died from the Ebola virus while ministering to patients in Congo. The pope signed the decrees February 20 during a meeting with Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, prefect of the Congregation for Saints’ Causes. The Vatican published theContinue Reading
By Patrick Egwu Bodo: Simon Ayafa has witnessed oil pollution in the Niger Delta region since he was 15. Now, at 35, he feels the region has been made inhabitable by decades of oil spills. “You to go the stream to fetch water and you get oil,” said Ayafa, whoContinue Reading
London: A relative of Queen Elizabeth II was February 23 sentenced to a 10-month prison term for sexually assaulting a woman at his ancestral home in Angus, Scotland. Earl of Strathmore Simon Bowes-Lyon, who is the son of a cousin of the 94-year-old British monarch, was found to have forcedContinue Reading
