By C V Joseph Bengaluru: Archbishop Peter Machado of Bangalore on January 17 urged young Catholics to assume leadership roles in society. The prelate wants the youth to give their best to society by entering politics, bureaucracy, various government sectors and other organizations. The archbishop was addressing some 50 youngContinue Reading
Rome: In the past week, nine Catholic bishops have died worldwide after testing positive for COVID-19. Between Jan. 8 and Jan. 15, bishops across three continents died as a result of the coronavirus. The deceased bishops ranged in age from 53 years old to 91. Five of the bishops diedContinue Reading
Vatican City: Pope Francis sent a telegram Jan 15 with his condolences for Indonesia, after a strong earthquake killed at least 67 people on the island of Sulawesi. Hundreds of people were also injured in the 6.2-magnitude quake, according to Jan Gelfand, head of the International Federation of Red CrossContinue Reading
Mumbai: Around 10,000 people marched towards Azad Maidan in Mumbai on January 16 in support of India’s farmers battling the three agriculture laws forcibly passed by the federal government. The farmers’ supporters walked from Islam Gym to the protest point at the call of a coalition of people’s and peasant’sContinue Reading
New Delhi: For 20-year-old Aman Khatri, getting a Covid-19 vaccination today was one of the best things to happen in almost 10 months, for most of which he couldn’t even go home. Mortuary cleaning at New Delhi’s Rajeev Gandhi Speciality Hospital may not have been the ideal job to haveContinue Reading
Washington: Indian-American Democrat and lawyer Aftab Pureval has announced his candidacy for the post of Cincinnati’s Mayor, promising to improve the lives of the people in the major US city amid the deadly coronavirus pandemic. Mr Pureval, who is the Hamilton County Clerk of Courts, confirmed his candidacy in aContinue Reading
By Shraddha Agarwal New Delhi: Women are central to agriculture in India, and many – farmers as well as non-farmers, young and old, across class and caste lines – are present and resolute at the farmers’ protest sites around Delhi Vishavjot Grewal, a woman protesting at Singhu on the Haryana-DelhiContinue Reading
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on January 16 launched across India the world’s largest vaccination drive against Covid-19. As many as 165,714 people were vaccinated across India on the first day, said federal Health Minister Harsh Vardhan, who commended volunteers who helped in clinical trials and the research processContinue Reading
By P Sainath New Delhi: The new farm laws disable the right to legal recourse of all citizens, not just farmers – to an extent unseen since the 1975-77 Emergency. The farmers at Delhi’s gates are fighting for the rights of us all. “No suit, prosecution or other legal proceedingsContinue Reading
By Alok Mohit Patna: The hurriedly enacted farm laws aim to introduce corporate farming in India, says Jesuit social scientist Father Prakash Louis. The enactment of the three farms laws at a time when the country was grappling with problems related to Covid-19 was “anti-people and anti-farmers,” Father Louis assertedContinue Reading
