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
New Delhi: The Indian government on February 25 announced new rules to regulate digital content and establish what it called a “soft touch progressive institutional mechanism with level-playing field” featuring a Code of Ethics and a three-tier grievance redressal framework for news sites and OTT platforms. The rules will empowerContinue Reading
By Jacob Koshy New Delhi: The Indian government has withdrawn a controversial order that required prior clearance from the Ministry of External Affairs to attend online international scientific seminars and conferences. “In view of the easing of restrictions on travel and assembly of people guidelines issued regarding political clearance forContinue Reading
Lucknow: Amid protests by the Opposition, the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly on February 24 passed by voice vote a Bill aimed at curbing religious conversions by fraudulent or any other undue means, including through marriage. The Uttar Pradesh Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religion Bill, 2021 seeks to replace theContinue Reading
Chennai: On arterial Poonamallee High Road, flanked by Egmore Railway Station and the Police Commissioner’s office stands the imposing St Andrew’s church like a weightless dream in pale white. Fondly known as the Kirk (Scottish for church), the church’s steeple, the tallest in the city, soars above a sea ofContinue Reading
