By KAI SCHULTZ New Delhi: For the first time ever, the Taj Mahal, India’s monument to eternal love, is getting a serious cleaning. For more than 350 years, monsoon rains in Agra, the bustling city where the monument sits, were enough to wash dirt off the structure’s walls. But pollutionContinue Reading
On the bare floor of a police lock-up in Satna, Madhya Pradesh, 32 priests and seminarians were forced to sit through a winter night last month, like criminals. They were detained after a Bajrang Dal mob attacked them, apparently for singing Christmas carols, burnt their car and thrashed them evenContinue Reading
Bhopal: A question at a general knowledge quiz by the BJP’s youth wing, the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha here on Tuesday raised a storm with the question describing the country’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru as “greedy”. The Congress then questioned the contribution of Deendayal Upadhyay and the Rashtriya SwayamsevakContinue Reading
By Patricia Mukhim Every political party contesting the assembly election to the three states of Tripura, Nagaland and Meghalaya is speaking about change. Interestingly, even the ruling Congress in Meghalaya, the NPF-BJP combine in Nagaland and the CPI (M) in Tripura are talking of ‘change’ as if that is asContinue Reading
Saurav Bora Tura: Growing intolerance and attacks on Christians in other parts of the country is a cause of concern for Church leaders here in Garo Hills. “Church leaders here are apprehensive of the growing intolerance against Christians even as the current atmosphere in Garo Hills is peaceful and normal.Continue Reading
Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala’s longest murder probe took another turn on January 22 with a CBI court ordering the investigating agency to arraign former crime branch Superintendent of Police K T Michael as an accused in the Sister Abhaya murder case for allegedly destroying evidence. Sister Abhaya was found dead in theContinue Reading
Every time Vinodh Philip tried telling his mother why he didn’t want to marry a girl, he said she would innocuously ask, “Have you joined a choir in Mumbai?” “This was her way of averting an uncomfortable discussion, and she tried this trick at least a dozen times!” Philip laughedContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Kochi: The Christian Institute of Management is to hold the Christian Chartered Accountants Conference 2018 in Cochin from 23 – 25 February. “This is the fourth edition of the conference since its inception in 2014. The earlier conferences were held at Hyderabad, Chennai and Bengaluru respectively,”Continue Reading
The Church has come a long way from being forbidden to enter Arunachal Pradesh to being in the forefront of education and healthcare Continue Reading
Body appears to have been hung after death, church members allegeContinue Reading
