Malda: Malda: Muslims of an eastern Indian village on April 25 arranged for the cremation of a youth of a poor Hindu family. Biswajit Rajak of Shekhpura, a Muslim-majority village in the Malda district of West Bengal died the previous night after a prolonged fight with liver cancer. Biswajit’s familyContinue Reading

New Delhi:  The central government has, amid debate over vigilantism, on Monday proposed to the Supreme court for providing adhaar-like unique identification number to cows in India, ANI reported. “Each cow and its progeny across India should get a Unique Identification Number for tracking,” the government said in its reportContinue Reading

By: Mariola Sequeira Goalpara: A Salesian organization has joined hands with government agencies in Assam to train local people in disaster management techniques to deal with flood and other natural calamities. More than 160 people, including women, from four village clusters attended the day long training session on April 23Continue Reading

Joseph Pulinthanath Agartala: The newly built Catholic Cathedral of St Francis Xavier was blessed and dedicated today at Durjoynagar, Agartala in the presence of a large gathering of faithful and Church dignitaries. Cardinal Patrick D’Rosario of Dhaka and the president of the Catholic Bishops Conference of Bangladesh blessed and dedicatedContinue Reading

New Delhi/Raipur: At least 26 CRPF personnel were killed and and six others wounded in a deadly ambush by naxalites in Chhattisgarh’s Sukma district on Monday. The attack took place at around 12. 25 pm between the Burkapal-Chintagufa area in south Bastar, one of the worst Maoist violence-affected region inContinue Reading