Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh police on March 2 arrested a man in connection with the murder of a person who had a molestation case against one of them for harassing his daughter. The arrest took place a day after four persons allegedly killed the 50-year-old man under the Sasni police stationContinue Reading
New Delhi: After talks with the government broke down in January, a video of an air-conditioned tractor trolley equipped with solar-powered battery offers an insight into how farmers protesting at Delhi’s borders are preparing for the long haul. In Delhi, temperatures are expected to go well beyond 40 degrees duringContinue Reading
Kochi: The BJP reached out to minority Christians in poll-bound Kerala on March 1 with senior party leader and deputy chief minister of Karnataka C N Ashwath Narayan meeting a senior Catholic priest seeking to “gain the confidence” of the community. Besides Narayan, BJP state chief K Surendran, who isContinue Reading
Alappuzha: Centuries-old St. George’s Orthodox Church at Cheppad has faced the risk of demolition for widening of National Highway (NH) 66, but it is now set to be declared a centrally protected monument of national importance by the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI). In February, as directed by the ASIContinue Reading
By C V Joseph Bengaluru: C P Yogeshwar, Karnataka’s minister of tourism, ecology and environment, has pledged support to films that champion the cause of preserving nature. The minister was the chief guest at a ceremony to award winners of a short film competition held at Bengaluru’s St. Joseph’s InstituteContinue Reading
By Francis Sunil Rosario Kolkata: The Arch-diocese of Calcutta has inaugurated the commission for migrants in response to Pope Francis’ call address the global issue of migrants seriously. Archbishop Thomas D’Souza, regional chairman of the Commission for Migrants, and Bishop Shyamal Bose of Baruipur attended the February 26 program atContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Shillong: The Meghalaya police on February 27 urged the public to maintain peace and harmony after some unidentified miscreants attacked a group of construction workers from Assam in a Jesuit college campus. One person was killed and seven others were wounded in the February 24 attackContinue Reading
New Delhi: Farmers as well as villagers in Punjab have mourned the death of a teenage boy at Singhu border, one of sites of the ongoing farmer agitation. Navjot Singh, son of Jaswinder Singh, traveled from Kheri Jattan village in Punjab to the national capital to join the farmers protest.Continue Reading
By Irudhaya Jothi Kolkata: Retired Jesuit Bishop Linus Nirmal Gomes, the oldest Catholic prelate of India, died February 27 in Kolkata. He was 99. Bishop Gomes, the first prelate of Baruipur diocese in West Bengal, died at 3 am in the infirmary of Kolkata’s St Xavier’s College where he wasContinue Reading
Guwahati: Over a period of 3-days this week, Salesians of Guwahati province reached out to Artisans, Migrant workers, and Sick people, from 22nd to 24th February 2021. Bosco Reach Out, the social service wing of the province handed over 80 handlooms to artisans, set up a Migrant Desk to assistContinue Reading