Bengaluru cops turn Good Samaritans
2016-04-19
First in India-Bangalore Cops pool-in to save accident victimsContinue Reading
Innovative product transforms Mozambique farmers
2016-04-18
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
Challenges of being an Asian leader
2016-04-14
Sr. Cyrilla Chakkalakal heads the Franciscan Sisters of St. Mary of the Holy AngelsContinue Reading
Urban farm in Navi Mumbai grows food for patients
2016-04-11
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
Bitter bites
2016-04-11
Nagaon district has 8,050 registered lemon growers and lemon orchards were planted in 2,680 hectaresContinue Reading
Where religions coexist, gender equality is unmatched
2016-04-10
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
West Bengal’s tribal belt faces culture clash
2016-04-08
West Midnapore: Class began with a prayer. Thirty-odd children, sitting cross-legged on the courtyard outside Jamboni village’s sole clubhouse, chanted Saraswati Vandana. A picture of the goddess and two lit incense sticks sat on a chair in front of them. This is just one of the 50,000-odd schools being run byContinue Reading
NASA satellites unlock secret to northern India’s vanishing water
2016-04-06
Beneath northern India’s irrigated fields of wheat, rice, and barley … beneath its densely populated cities of Jaiphur and New Delhi, the groundwater has been disappearing. Halfway around the world, hydrologists, including Matt Rodell of NASA, have been hunting for it. Where is northern India’s underground water supply going? AccordingContinue Reading
Providing shelter and love for forsaken women
2016-04-05
Pune: Sr. Lucy Kurien was the only Catholic among 20 women that the Indian government honored with the Nari Shakti Puraskar, a women’s empowerment award, on March 8, International Women’s Day, for outstanding contribution to society. The member of the Holy Cross of Chavanod is the founder of Maher (“MyContinue Reading
Morality and moralizing are different
2016-04-04
Bengaluru: Thirty eight years after Professor Bernard Haering came out with a three- volume ‘Free and Faithful in Christ’ a vacuum is being felt as far as a complete, consistent, coherent and up-to-date presentation of Christian Moral Theology is concerned. The long overdue re-thinking and re-presentation of moral theology isContinue Reading