Kolkatta: A homemaker in the city said she often has to switch to the more difficult earthen oven because she doesn’t have enough money at home for an LPG cylinder. Pompa Mondal said she books a cylinder when the family has money but the double blow of the Covid pandemicContinue Reading
Financial woes brought by last year’s coronavirus pandemic have pushed about 32 million Indians out of the middle class, undoing years of economic gains, a report showed on Thursday, while job losses pushed millions into poverty. The number of Indians in the middle class, or those earning between $10 andContinue Reading
By Harish Damodaran New Delhi: A 100 percent solar-powered battery-less cold store that can preserve around 2 tons of freshly-harvested produce at 3-4°C during the day and 8-12°C at nighttime. A technology for imparting elasticity and structural strength to bajra and maize dough, making their chapattis as soft as fromContinue Reading
Three church-run colleges will come up in the next couple of years, Reverend Paritosh Canning, the bishop of the Calcutta diocese of the Church of North India, said on March 18. The three colleges are — St James’ College, St John’s Diocesan College and a law college at St Thomas’Continue Reading
By Leonardo Blair Atlanta: A 21-year-old Baptist Christian, who shot dead eight people in massage parlor shootouts in the United States, says he was addicted to pornography and was trying to eliminate “temptation.” Robert Aaron Long shot people in three massage parlors in the Atlanta area on March 16 andContinue Reading
By Felix Anthony Lazu: The Catholic diocese of Miao has rushed its social service team to a village where a massive fire accident killed two persons and rendered 500 homeless. “This was the biggest fire accident I have witnessed in my life,” Sethok Thinyan, a youth leader and member ofContinue Reading
By Ram Puniyani Mumbai: India got independence from British colonial rule on 15th August 1947 after a long struggle which was inclusive and had plural dimensions. Foundation of Indian Constitution is Liberty, Equality, Fraternity and Justice. The values of secularism are deeply ingrained all through and particularly in Articles 14,Continue Reading
New Delhi: A group of hawkers, sex workers, domestic workers, rescued bonded laborers and other unorganized workers gathered in New Delhi to demand the government fulfill the promises made during the pandemic. The March 18 demonstration at Jantar Mantar took place a week before the first anniversary of the lockdownContinue Reading
Krishnadas Rajagopal New Delhi: The Supreme Court has forbade judges from making gender stereotypical comments like “’good women are sexually chaste,” women who drink and smoke ‘ask’ for sexual advances or presume that a sexually active woman consented to rape while hearing cases of sexual offence. A Bench of JusticesContinue Reading
By Inés San Martín Rome: Over the past week, the houses of 450 Catholic families were destroyed in Pakistan, and those of 1,000 Christians will be bulldozed by government officials in upcoming days. The country’s Supreme Court ruled that the homes are on state-owned lands, and their presence makes theContinue Reading
