New Delhi: India’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led government has been advocating vegetarianism on grounds of religion and ideology, the latest being an effort by Indian Railways to enforce vegetarian menus on all trains on October 2, Mohandas Gandhi’s birthday. However, around 80 percent of Indian men and 70 percent ofContinue Reading
Thiruvananthapuram: A division bench of the Kerala High Court on May 22 reversed a single bench’s order asking police to register an FIR against Cardinal George Alencherry and three others in connection with an alleged illegal land deal in Ernakulam-Angamaly Archdiocese. The division bench had earlier stayed the FIR againstContinue Reading
At least 10 people have now died in the state of Kerala from confirmed cases of the deadly Nipah virus, officials have said. Dozens more have been quarantined amid public panic in the state of Kerala, and a team of experts has been dispatched to the coastal region from India’sContinue Reading
Former Mizoram Chief Minister Zoramthanga has filed a criminal case against a Congress leader for alleging he had a hand in the death of a pastor 10 years ago. Thansanga, an Aizawl-based Congress leader, had in the party’s Mizo language bulletin published a report on the “mysterious death” of ReverendContinue Reading
If prayers have the ability to change the world by balancing strife with peace, then tucked away in a quiet corner of Vasco’s Chicalim, is a powerful hub generating the much-needed positive energy. The hub is a convent housing the Cloistered Carmel, an order of Roman Catholic nuns, who haveContinue Reading
Kanpur:Ten people have died and 16 taken seriously ill after drinking homemade illicit liquor in two neighbouring Uttar Pradesh districts in the last 24 hours, officials said on Sunday. Six people died in Kanpur Dehat’s Matauli, Maghaipurwa and Bhanwarpur villages on Sunday, barely a few hours after police cracked downContinue Reading
Two Muslim youth were badly beaten up by villagers in this Madhya Pradesh village on accusation of slaughtering a cow, leading to the death of one of them, police said on Sunday. Four accused have been arrested. According to police, the incident happened in Amgaar village of the district onContinue Reading
The Patriarch has invited the church for peace talks during his visit to India Even as they have received an explicit invite from Patriarch of Antioch Ignatius Aphrem II for initiating peace talks during his visit to India this week, the Malankara Orthodox Church appears to be taking a cautiousContinue Reading
This was the second case of a minor girl being sexually assaulted and set on fire in JharkhandContinue Reading
Mangaluru: An official of Mangalore diocese has dismissed as fake some videos and images on alleged attacks on churches in the wake of the Bharatiya Janata Party’s victory in the just concluded assembly elections in Karnataka state. “No attacks on any church in Mangalore have taken place till Thursday (MayContinue Reading
