Myitkyina: A Catholic nun in Myanmar has braved the military a second time in ten days to save people of the strife-torn South Asian nation. The image of Sister Ann Rose Nu Tawng in a simple white habit, her hands spread, pleading with the forces as they prepared to crackContinue Reading
By Felix Anthony Miao: Women are the biggest miracle workers in the world, asserts a Catholic prelate serving India’s northeastern extreme. “You are miracle workers and also our unsung heroines, who go about making the world a better place to live in, without expecting anything in return,” Bishop George PallipparambilContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Kolkata: Father Rodney Borneo, a popular priest of Calcutta archdiocese, on March 9 joined the Bharatiya Janata Party that heads the federal coalition government, according to a video clip circulating in social media platforms. The video shows Father Borneo coming to a stage where he isContinue Reading
New Delhi: A 49-year-old farmer from Haryana’s Hisar district on March 7 allegedly hanged himself from a tree, about seven kilometers from the Tikri border protest site, police said. The farmer, who supported the agitation against Centre’s new farm laws, has purportedly left a suicide note, they said. “The victim,Continue Reading
Shiv Visvanathan Sonepat: My father was a brilliant metallurgist who worked for the Tatas. We lived in Jamshedpur and would go for long walks. He loved the forests around the city. I remember one evening as we walked, the Tata ‘mountains’ poured out their slag — molten and incandescent —Continue Reading
By Ditsa Bhattacharya New Delhi: Hundreds of women, students and workers assembled at Delhi’s Jantar Mantar March 8 –International Women’s Day – to celebrate the unity of women, workers and farmers and to protest against the federal government’s alleged “anti-women, anti-people” policies. The demonstration was organized by multiple women’s massContinue Reading
By Ravi Kaushal, Sagrika Kissu New Delhi: Most women farmers, who had gathered at Tikri and Singhu borders of the national capital, told NewsClick that the farmers’ protest has been a life changing experience for them, as through these protests they became aware about their legitimate rights. Scarves of allContinue Reading
By Anuj Cariappa New Delhi: Jesuit-managed Xavier School of Management is setting up a Centre for Gender Equality and Inclusive Leadership at Delhi-NCR Campus to make a meaningful impact on the inclusion of women in economically gainful activities. The school is the new name of the Jamshedpur-based Xavier Labour RelationsContinue Reading
Onboard Papal plane: Speaking to journalists on the flight to Rome, Pope Francis retraces the stages of his historic visit to Iraq: the meeting with “the wise and man of God” Al Sistani, his feelings before the destroyed churches in Mosul, his emotion at the words of the Christian motherContinue Reading
Kolkata: Seven people were killed in a huge fire that broke out in an office building in central Kolkata’s Strand Road on March 8 evening. Among the dead are four firemen, a police officer, a Railways officer and a security person, officials said. Two others are missing. Five of theContinue Reading
