Thiruvananthapuram: The parents of a Class XII student of St Thomas Central School at Mukkola in Thiruvananthapuram district in Kerala have decided to appeal to a high court division bench against the expulsion of their 16-year-old son for hugging a girl from Class XI after she won a prize atContinue Reading
Hyderabad: This Christmas, prisons department turned Santa for Hyderabadis with ‘spot a beggar to win 500’ announcement. On October 20, 2017, prisons department of Telangana launched a social service activity to uplift the lives of beggars in Hyderabad through a correctional program. As part of the program, prisons department officialsContinue Reading
Nagarcoil: Even as the mismatch between the numbers being provided by the district administration and the fishermen on the number of fishermen died in the recent cyclone is yet to be resolved, residents of Neerodi, one of the coastal hamlets of the district, have offered prayers in memory of 36Continue Reading
Khammam: Scores of Christians participated in a Christmas feast held at the Montfort church here on Monday. The feast was organised by the Minorities Welfare Department in connection with Christmas festival slated for December 25. Khammam MLA Puvvada Ajay Kumar attended the feast. Speaking on the occasion, Mr. Ajay saidContinue Reading
Panaji: Banks and cellphone companies aren’t the only ones demanding your Aadhaar card. Pimps in Goa are also making it mandatory, as a group of five young men from Delhi discovered recently. The men, who flew in for their friend’s bachelor party, landed in Goa with a “contact” in hand.Continue Reading
The Odisha Minority Alliance started the award this yearContinue Reading
Sister Sudha Varghese was chosen for her work among the lowest of the low caste groupContinue Reading
By Sr Prema Chowalur Guwahati: “Christ is for all and He is the saviour of the world” was the resonating message of the pre-Christmas celebration which brought together people of all walks of life. Women Development Centre (WDC), the social wing of the Sisters of the Cross of Chavanod (SCC)Continue Reading
Mathura/Agra: The Christian community in Agra and Mathura on Sunday alleged police high-handedness over the arrest of seven people in Uttar Pradesh’s Mathura district on what it said were “fabricated charges of religious conversion”. The seven accused, now in judicial custody, were picked up by police from a house inContinue Reading
Christian schools in Uttar Pradesh’s Aligarh have been issued a warning by the Hindu Jagran Manch, a right-wing Hindutva group affiliated to Yogi Adityanath’s Hindu Yuva Vahini, not to celebrate Christmas as it may lure the students to Christianity. The HYM suspects Christmas celebration in schools, with a major population ofContinue Reading
