Bhopal survivors burn Obama effigy for “shielding” Dow Chemical
2016-08-16
Leaders of survivors’ organizations on August 13 expressed outrage at the White House’s recent response to a petition by well over 125,000 signatorieContinue Reading
Hope for 9,000 rickets affected children
2016-08-15
Shillong — A group of volunteers lead by a catholic priest has proved that rickets is completely curable, while the medical world asserts it can only be partially remedied. Salesian Fr (Dr) Jose Chunkapura made this claim in Shillong at the rickets identification and treatment camp held at the CentreContinue Reading
Dalits vow never to remove dead cows
2016-08-15
The flogging of 4 Dalit men, suspected of cow slaughter, has angered the community in Gujarat.Continue Reading
Crocodiles, flood don’t stop Odisha students
2016-08-15
Students in Kendrapara are forced to wade through waist-deep water in a crocodile- infested creek Continue Reading
Indian, Pak musicians launch One Independence campaign
2016-08-15
One Independence is a campaign by En Route Thursdays in association with WittyFeed.comContinue Reading
Protestant seminary faces “Kashmir” trouble
2016-08-15
Kashimiri people alleged raised anti-India slogans at a meetingContinue Reading
Bishop, three priests held for hiding details on woman’s death
2016-08-15
Three years after a woman from Coimbatore was found dead at the parsonage of the Catholic Church in Chandrapuram, in Kerala’s Palakkad district, Palakkad police Friday arrested Coimbatore diocese Bishop Thomas Aquinas and three other priests of the same diocese for allegedly withholding information on the death. Bishop Acquinas andContinue Reading
College student slices off tongue offering to goddess Kali
2016-08-15
A 19-year-old girl sliced off her tongue with a blade and offered it to Goddess Kali, apparently to appease the deity into granting her heart’s desire. Aarti Dubey, an undergraduate student at TRS College in Madhya Pradesh, made the extreme sacrifice a day after she dreamed about the deity demandingContinue Reading
St Fidelis College vice-principal held for harassment
2016-08-13
Lucknow: Lancy Lobo, the vice-principal of St Fidelis College, was on Friday arrested on charges of harassing a class VIII girl student of his school. The school is indefinitely shut. SSP Manzil Saini said Lobo was arrested from his residence in Vrindavan Yojana on the basis of a statement madeContinue Reading
Mother Teresa model of Mercy fuelled by prayers, says Pope
2016-08-13
When Pope Francis canonizes Blessed Teresa of Kolkata Sept. 4, he won’t simply be fulfilling a special duty of his office, he will be honoring a woman he has called “a symbol, an icon for our age.” When talking about the intersection of prayer, mercy, concrete acts of charity andContinue Reading