Gangaloor: Ten years ago, Sr. Ann Mary Chempakasseril faced a tribunal in front of 10,000 villagers, people that her order was founded to serve in the lush Bastar region of India. She and 13 others stood accused of collaborating with the Maoists, Communist insurgents known locally as “Naxalites,” in tryingContinue Reading
Ungarpur: On the mud floor of a hut in Rajasthan’s Dungarpur district, seven women and a man sit in a circle around three community workers. One of the community workers, marker in hand, asks why their children or grandchildren don’t go to school regularly. At first, they are silent. ThenContinue Reading
Bengaluru: The undergraduate course gives one an idea as to where their future should be heading and while that’s the case with majority of the students, a group of students from Bangalore, the Southern city of India are focusing on improving the quality of life of few underprivileged students inContinue Reading
Experts are agreed that 2016 has seen an unusually high number of celebrity deaths and say there are a combination of factors which could explain the phenomenon. Prince was the latest of a number of high-profile deaths, all in the past few months. A change in the perception of fame,Continue Reading
First in India-Bangalore Cops pool-in to save accident victimsContinue Reading
Arlindo Jose Victorino raises about 9,800 chickens on his farm in Nampula Province, Mozambique. To care for this flock, Arlindo and his family have historically had to collect up to 3,500 liters of water each day – walking a one-way distance of 660 meters from their chicken coops – usingContinue Reading
Sr. Cyrilla Chakkalakal heads the Franciscan Sisters of St. Mary of the Holy AngelsContinue Reading
Mumbai: Three years ago, a non-governmental organisation (NGO) set out on a green mission to convert a one-acre barren land on the campus of a medical research facility in Navi Mumbai into an organic farm. The once-barren plot is now grows herbs, vegetables plants and fruit trees, which are fedContinue Reading
Nagaon district has 8,050 registered lemon growers and lemon orchards were planted in 2,680 hectaresContinue Reading
Kochi: Back in the summer of 2015, the heart of a Hindu man was transported across Kerala for a Christian patient in dire need of a new one. Funds were raised by a Muslim businessman to pay for the operation and performed by the state’s top heart surgeon: a Christian. TheContinue Reading
