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Karachi’s Joseph Coutts was among 14 new cardinals to be created from around the world on Thursday and when Pope Francis presented him with the red hat, he became the fifth person of Goan origin to be appointed to the cardinalate. Coutts, 72, who traces his roots to Aldona andContinue Reading

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By P. A. Chacko On June 19 some armed men wearing masks abducted at gunpoint the members of a street play team at Kochang village in Khunti district (South Chotanagpur), some 100 km from Jharkhand’s state capital Ranchi. They were taken to the forest. While the male members were keptContinue Reading

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Satish Kumar China and India are civilisational states having some similarities but they adopted different ways in the last seven decades. China vehemently rejects religion and categorically terms it as an evil thing. On the other hand, religion has got sympathetic treatment in the independent secular India. The way ofContinue Reading

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By Patricia Mukhim Shillong: Shillong was once defined as a pluralistic society. The state of Meghalaya was created without bloodshed in 1972. That was quite an achievement. So the gentry were correct in conjuring images of the Shillong they knew, lived and worked in before 1979 happened. That was theContinue Reading