By Kiernan Green Montreal: Jesuits in Canada joined conferrers around the world to call for the release of Father Stan Swamy, an 83-year-old Indian Jesuit and human rights defender charged and imprisoned under India’s anti-terror laws. A Sessions Court judge in Mumbai denied Father Swamy bail on March 22, accordingContinue Reading
Cairo: Dredgers have joined efforts to refloat Ever Given, a giant container ship grounded in the Suez Canal for over two days, and to free the waterway for other ships. As of March 24, the ship was partially refloated and placed alongside the Canal bank, said Gulf Agency Company (GAC),Continue Reading
By Aaron Hemens Creston: Kanickaisamy Lawrence was barely nine-years-old when he developed an interest in becoming a priest. It was the early 1990s, and he was just a grade four student at St. Paul’s Higher Secondary School in Salem, a city located in the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu.Continue Reading
Jaffna: Gopal Bagay, the Indian High Commissioner to Sri Lanka, made a trip to the country’s North-East, the traditional Tamil homeland, ahead of a crucial vote on the island nation at the 46th session of the UN Human Rights Council Session (UNHRC) in Geneva. During his visit on March 13,Continue Reading
New Delhi: It has been 55 days, 71 countries, 58.6 million doses and counting into India’s Covid-19 vaccine diplomacy. And the first ever summit of the Quad leaders March 12 gave it a whole new booster shot. While 8.08 million doses have been sent as gift, free of charge, 16.52Continue Reading
By Grace Panetta New York: Former President Barack Obama says his ideal hypothetical group chat of world leaders would include Pope Francis, the Dalai Lama, German, and former Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. “The Dalai Lama, I love that guy, Pope Francis, a genuinely good man,” Obama said in anContinue Reading
By Miki Perkins Melbourne: Anjali Sharma first felt a sick sense of climate-related dread in the pit of her stomach when she was a primary school student. Keen to find out more about climate change, the 16-year-old watched an online video that warned Earth only had eight years before itContinue Reading
Washington: Indian-American aerospace engineer has told US President Joe Biden that her path to the premier US space agency began when she watched the first episode of Star Trek as a child. Swati Mohan has played a pivotal role in the successful landing of NASA’s Perseverance rover on Mars. SheContinue Reading
London: An Indian origin doctor is among infectious disease experts, who have expressed concern about Pope Francis’s upcoming trip to Iraq. They cited a sharp rise in coronavirus infections there, a fragile healthcare system and the unavoidable likelihood that Iraqis will crowd to see him. No-one wants to tell FrancisContinue Reading
New York: United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has announced the appointment of Ligia Noronha of India as Assistant Secretary-General and head of the New York Office of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). She will succeed Satya Tripathi of India, who was thanked by secretary-general for his leadership and dedicatedContinue Reading
