Paris: A French court on March 1 sentenced former President Nicolas Sarkozy to three years in prison for corruption and influence peddling, but suspended two years of the sentence. President from 2007 to 2012, he was found guilty of trying to illegally obtain information from a senior magistrate in 2014Continue Reading
By Shashi Tharoor Thiruvananthapuram: During the unpleasantness surrounding the arrest of 22-year-old activist Disha Ravi, the most unsavory of the many disagreeable elements in the controversy was the attempt of Hindutva social media warriors to disparage her by claiming she is Christian. She is not, but what if she were?Continue Reading
By C V Joseph Bengaluru: C P Yogeshwar, Karnataka’s minister of tourism, ecology and environment, has pledged support to films that champion the cause of preserving nature. The minister was the chief guest at a ceremony to award winners of a short film competition held at Bengaluru’s St. Joseph’s InstituteContinue Reading
Yangon: At least 18 people on February 28 were killed and more than 30 injured in Myanmar as police and military forces “confronted peaceful demonstrations,” the UN Human Rights Office said. The reported casualties make Sunday the deadliest day since the military seized power on February 1. As demonstrations againstContinue Reading
Vatican City: Pope Francis has said that seeing a psychiatrist in Argentina helped him with anxiety when he was a younger priest in an interview published in an Argentine newspaper Feb. 27 The pope spoke with an Argentine journalist about his physical and mental health. In the excerpt of theContinue Reading
Mosul:In Mosul, adjacent to the Biblical city of Nineveh, four churches representing different denominations occupy a small square surrounded by low-rise houses, testament to the role Iraq’s once flourishing Christian community played. Today, all four churches are either damaged or destroyed after Islamic State militants occupied the city from 2014-2017,Continue Reading
By Francis Sunil Rosario Kolkata: The Arch-diocese of Calcutta has inaugurated the commission for migrants in response to Pope Francis’ call address the global issue of migrants seriously. Archbishop Thomas D’Souza, regional chairman of the Commission for Migrants, and Bishop Shyamal Bose of Baruipur attended the February 26 program atContinue Reading
By Aiborlang Nongsiej Shillong: As an educator and a writer from the region of South West Khasi Hills District I condemn the barbaric act committed on the workers at St Xavier’s College, Umoid on the Feb 24 night. The inhuman act of the miscreants has shocked the entire district andContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Shillong: The Meghalaya police on February 27 urged the public to maintain peace and harmony after some unidentified miscreants attacked a group of construction workers from Assam in a Jesuit college campus. One person was killed and seven others were wounded in the February 24 attackContinue Reading
New Delhi: Farmers as well as villagers in Punjab have mourned the death of a teenage boy at Singhu border, one of sites of the ongoing farmer agitation. Navjot Singh, son of Jaswinder Singh, traveled from Kheri Jattan village in Punjab to the national capital to join the farmers protest.Continue Reading
