On December 16, 1966, the United Nations General Assembly adopted two significant International Covenants on Human Rights: the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. These two Covenants, together with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), form the InternationalContinue Reading
Chennai: Caritas picks the elderly, widows, children, backward communities, minorities, fisher-folks and those physically and mentally challenged at Tamil Nadu Floods Relief. In doing so, “Our work is not free of challenges” says Arockiaraj, the Caritas state officer who was reporting from Chennai district on Wednesday. He said that evenContinue Reading
The book fair aims to inculcate reading habit among peopleContinue Reading
This has been done as Chief Minister Siddaramaiah believes that too much of superstition is being spread by the astrologers.Continue Reading
Ezhuthu is expected to play a critical role in Kerala’s literary circleContinue Reading
Srinagar: The minuscule Christian community living in the Kashmir valley is leading a quiet life and feeling neglected. Even as the 2011 census stated that the population of Christians had witnessed an increase of around 75 percent from 2001 with 11,857 of them living in the Valley, members of the communityContinue Reading
India reports between 700, 000 to 800, 000 burn injuries a year, including acid attacksContinue Reading
Panaji: Two Goan priests, Fr Antonio Francisco Alvares (Mar Julius) and Fr Roque Zeferino Noronha were declared blessed saints by the Catholicos of the Indian Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church, Baselios Marthoma Paulose II, at Brahmavar, Karnataka at 8.30 am on Sunday. The beatification ceremony at St Mary’s Orthodox Syrian CathedralContinue Reading
New Delhi: Curious about the push to circumvent the Parliament and use the courts to usher in the Uniform Civil Code, the Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a Bharatiya Janata Party leader seeking to bring the civil code which brings all religious personal laws under one umbrella. AContinue Reading
Guwahati: Two years after Gauhati High Court’s direction to convert the 72 km Haladhibari-Besamari levee into a road-cum-dyke, people of Majuli in Upper Assam’s Jorhat district are yet to see it materialise. Manoj Kumar Borah, a resident of Majuli who has been fighting a legal battle for the protection ofContinue Reading
