Ranchi: The Catholic Church has started distributing food packets to poor Covid patients admitted in hospital after giving pre-packed lunch packets outside the two largest state-owned healthcare facilities in Ranchi for their attendants and relatives. “We had started distribution of lunch packets outside both the Rajendra Institute of Medical SciencesContinue Reading
Low pay, 24-hour shifts and severe shortages of staff and protective gear have left many doctors on the front lines of India’s brutal pandemic surge near breaking point and fearful for their lives. Coronavirus infections have killed at least 165,000 people in the vast South Asian nation – home toContinue Reading
New Delhi: A photograph of Congress President Sonia Gandhi has gone viral, which purportedly shows a bookshelf behind her with a book titled ‘How to convert India into a Christian Nation’. The image also shows a copy of the Holy Bible and a statue of Jesus Christ on the shelf.Continue Reading
New Delhi: Bal Swaraj, an online tracking portal of a national child rights body, shows details of nearly 10,000 children in India in immediate need of care and protection. They include children under 17 orphaned or abandoned during the Covid-19 pandemic since March 2020. The National Commission for Protection ofContinue Reading
It was three weeks ago when journalists combing obituary pages in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s home state of Gujarat found authorities were concealing Covid-19 deaths that people started asking hard questions about the real number of Indian coronavirus fatalities. Now, epidemiologists and scientists around the world are struggling to solveContinue Reading
strong>Telangana: A doctor in Hyderabad has been treating people for just ₹ 10 with the intention to provide medical care at an affordable price to the economically backward classes of the society. Since 2018, Dr Victor Emmanuel has been treating the poor at his Hyderabad clinic for rupees 10. PeopleContinue Reading
Aligarh: The death count in the Aligarh hooch tragedy climbed to 36 on May 31 with 11 more deaths being confirmed by the district authorities amid apprehension that it may rise further. Viscera samples of 35 other people, who are suspected to have died after consuming spurious liquor, have beenContinue Reading
Kochi: The gangrape of 14-year-old Christian girl Sunita Masih by Muslim zealots in Pakistan’s Faisalabad early this week has left the Christian community in Kerala appalled and speechless. Sunita was not only gangraped but was subjected to the worst kind of physical torture in an incident which brought back memoriesContinue Reading
Pithoragarh: Residents of a tribal village in Uttarakhand’s Pithoragarh fled to a nearby forest area when a team of district health workers came to the village recently for COVID-19 testing. Kuta Chaurani village is inhabited by Banrawats – an endangered tribe. The tribals fled to the adjoining forest on gettingContinue Reading
Kochi: Cardinal George Alencherry has completed 10 years of service as the Major Archbishop of the Syro-Malabar Church. He observed the anniversary of his assumption of office with no public celebrations and offered Mass on May 29 at the Mount St Thomas Chapel, Kakkanad. The Synod of the Syro-Malabar ChurchContinue Reading