Alanganallur: Moving beyond a cultural tradition, Jallikattu – the popular bull-taming sport of the state — also means big business. A ban means a huge drop in the price of these sought-after bulls, resulting in big financial losses for farmers. A bull that is participating for the first time inContinue Reading
New Delhi: Citing 85 major incidents of alleged persecution of Christians across 20 states last year, a report by a minority and human rights NGO says 2015 saw an unprecedented spike in “intolerance” against the community. The report says on an average India saw one such incident of hate crimeContinue Reading
Dimapur: Along with other Kukis of the region, Bongkolong village in Peren district and Molvom village in Dimapur district celebrated the post harvest festival ‘, reported’ in traditional fervor on January 17. Various dance forms and songs with the accompaniment of drum beats reverberated Bongkolong village ground as four differentContinue Reading
Pathanamthitta: The (BJP) has started avidly wooing various church denominations in Kerala ahead of the Assembly polls. Series of meetings held between the Union Ministers, including the Prime Minister, with church leaders in Kerala amply suggested the BJP’s game-plan in bridging the gap between the party and the church. ‘Building trust’Continue Reading
Hyderabad: Ducking the trend for religion, the female Christian population in the city outnumbers the male population across nearly all age groups. Though small compared to the total Christian population of 87,552 in Hyderabad, the gender gap of nearly 1,000 is representative of a difference seen across the State andContinue Reading
Thiruvananthapuram: Vice-President Hamid Ansari on Wednesday declared Kerala as the first Indian state to have achieved total primary education. “Kerala has added another feather to her educational cap through the successful culmination of the `Athulyam’ programme aimed at ensuring total primary education, equivalent to Class IV of formal education,” heContinue Reading
Kozhikode: Chief Minister Oommen Chandy will inaugurate the five-day Global Ayurveda Festival (GAF) and Arogya Expo at the Swapna Nagari here beginning January 31. The GAF considered to be largest biennial get-together of the ayurveda fraternity, is into its third edition. The preceding conferences organised in Thiruvananthapuram in 2012 andContinue Reading
The Church should “re-commit and re-dedicate itself to do all for the freedom of those enslaved and trafficked, so that they may have life and have it more abundantly,” the general secretary of the Synod of the Church of North India has said. Alwan Masih said that the church hadContinue Reading
Church has taken on a new look in Taiwan, where a giant Cinderella-inspired glass slipper has been built as a house of worship, hoping to entice more women to church. The church, which was completed Sunday, is located next to the sea in Budai Town, on the east coast ofContinue Reading
Thiruvananthapuram : The Kerala government has sought an immediate intervention of the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) to relax norms for Indian nurses who wish to work in the Middle East. Speaking to reporters here on Monday, State Minister for Diaspora K.C. Joseph said that unless the MEA steps inContinue Reading
