New Delhi, May 15, 2019: Retired Supreme Court judge Justice Madan Lokur has become the first judge from the Indian apex court to be appointed to Fiji’s Supreme Court. “I have been invited by the Chief Justice of the Fiji Supreme Court to be a part of the apex courtContinue Reading
Ras Al Khaimah, May 12, 2019: Keeping with the UAE’s vision for 2019 to be the ‘Year of Tolerance’, a group of expats took the opportunity to celebrate Ramadan and partake in a special Iftar inside a church in Ras Al Khaimah. In what could be a first, the expats,Continue Reading
Kochi, May 8, 2019: Indian billionaire Yusuff Ali has converted the Great Scotland Yard, which served as headquarters for the Metropolitan police in London, into a five-star hotel. The chairman of Abu Dhabi-based retail giant LuLu Group bought the iconic building in 2015 for I0 billion rupees (£110 million). TheContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, May 6, 2019: Salesian Father Jacob Anil D’Sa has been appointed the Asian International Young Catholic Students (IYCS) chaplain. The 40-year-old Indian priest will be based at Manila, the capital of the Philippines. The IYCS is a Catholic action movement of the apostolate ofContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Colombo, April 22, 2019: Five Indians were among 290 people killed in a string of eight powerful blasts that struck three churches and luxury hotels in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday. The number of wounded has gone upto 500. The Indian High Commission in Colombo saidContinue Reading
By Inés San Martín Rome, April 13, 2019: Cardinal Oswald Gracias, archbishop of Bombay, says Catholic parents have the right to know the Church is genuinely committed to “zero tolerance” in clerical sexual abuse. The 73-year-old prelate is a member of Pope Francis’s council of cardinals which advises him onContinue Reading
New York, April 11, 2019: A 67-year-old Indian in the US has pleaded guilty to one count of attempted naturalisation fraud, facing up to 10 years in prison, officials said. Pal Singh, who also went by names — Surinder Singh and Harpal Singh — first landed in the US inContinue Reading
Rapid City, March 31, 2019: A former Catholic priest from India has been sentenced to six years in prison for sexually abusing a teenage girl in the US. John Praveen Itukulapati, a former Holy Spirit priest from Telangana, pleaded guilty in February to sexually touching a 13-year-old girl in theContinue Reading
Kuwait City, Mar. 25, 2019: : The number of Indian workers in Kuwait has soared over 889,000, the highest among all other expat workers in this Arab country, media reports said. The figure was revealed on March 24 by the Central Administration of Statistics, the Arab Times reported citing theContinue Reading
Tirana, Albania, Mar. 24, — Albanian authorities say they have arrested an Indian citizen wanted in his country for money laundering. A statement Friday by Albanian police said the individual, identified only as H.P., 59, was arrested at an airport trying to leave the country. The police say he isContinue Reading
