“Shall we sit in the sun?” asks Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, pulling a garden chair behind him. An old nameplate bearing his late dentist father’s name is still fixed on the front wall of the nearly 100-year-old house, surrounded by mango and Dehradun’s famous litchi trees. “I spend time sitting hereContinue Reading
Pope has sent forth 1,000 Missionaries of MercyContinue Reading
Selsella: Meghalaya chief minister Mukul Sangma today inaugurated a common facility centre-cum-handloom production unit in this town in West Garo Hills in a bid to provide local weavers an opportunity to start their own ventures. The unit was set up as part of a special initiative of the state governmentContinue Reading
Dadara: It’s an army without arms. “Armed” with the commitment to conserve greater adjutant storks, 14 women self-help groups of Dadara village in Kamrup district have formed a ” hargila army”, under the leadership of NGO Aaranyak’s greater adjutant stork project team. The aim of the “army” is to removeContinue Reading
On April 4, 1579, a young Englishman named Thomas Stephens boarded the Laurenco, a ship sailing to India, at Lisbon, Portugal, clinging to his most precious possession: his faith. A Roman Catholic, he was compelled to leave Wiltshire, his hometown in England, as it was a time when Catholics were beingContinue Reading
Student captaining Bengal Under-14 team wants to become policewomanContinue Reading
The foray of a resident of a village in Arunachal Pradesh into tea plantation inspired scores of people in the area to follow her example with many of them giving up growing opium. Affectionately called ‘tea lady’, Basamlu Krisikro, a resident of the remote Wakro village in Lohit district, startedContinue Reading
Bengaluru: Its 12 noon at the government school in DJ Halli, northeast Bengaluru. Hundreds of little faces are fixed on the van that has carried their lunch. For 15 years, every afternoon, the Bengaluru headquartered Akshaya Patra Foundation (APF) has been bringing smiles on faces of 1.4 million children. AndContinue Reading
Thundathil, an Augustinian nun, set up the enclave for leprosy patients at Sendhwa, a village in Barwani district in the central Indian state of Madhya PradeshContinue Reading
Charismatic priest CR Prabhu looks back at 50 golden yearsContinue Reading
