Thiruvananthapuram: A 21-year-old college student has been officially proposed as the next Mayor of Thiruvananthapuram, the capital of Kerala. Arya Rajendran has won the recent civic polls as a member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) that heads the ruling Left Democratic Front (LDF) in the southern Indian state.Continue Reading
By Frida Toppo Bengaluru: Caren Rodrigues, Assistant Professor at St. Joseph’s Institute of Management, Bengaluru, has been selected as a delegate to the global summit on “Economy of Francesco” commissioned by Pope Francis. She teaches Organizational Behavior, Organizational Structure and Design, Human Resources Management, Research Methods, Performance Management; International HRM,Continue Reading
By F. M. Britto Raipur: A Christian IAS officer in Tamil Nadu, who has been admired for relentlessly crusading against corruption, has applied for voluntary retirement from government service, three years before reaching the retirement age. News agencies say that it may be because Ubagaram Pillai Sagayam had been demoted,Continue Reading
By Frida Toppo Guwahati: Lilymaxima Ekka, a staff member of a forum that works for development of northeastern India, is concerned mainly with checking trafficking of tribal girls from the region. The Guwahati-based North East Diocesan Social Service Society (NEDSSS) has assigned the 25-year-old to focus on tribal women inContinue Reading
By Lissy Maruthanakuzhy Old Goa: Sister Meena Dias, a member of the Sisters of Holy Family of Nazareth, is adept in training differently abled children. In 1991, she started serving St. Xavier’s Academy in Old Goa, an institution under the Archdiocese of Goa and Daman. Sister Dias was the firstContinue Reading
By Purushottam Nayak Bhubaneswar: A young Catholic woman, victim of the anti-Christian violence in 2008 in Odisha’s Kandhamal, has cleared the National Eligibility and Entrance Test (NEET), one of the toughest national level exams in India. “God is so caring and loving to the orphan. If my parents were aliveContinue Reading
London: A UK-based Indian-origin plastic surgeon has been named an ‘Outstanding Young Person of the World 2020’ by a non-profit NGO for her “incredible” scientific contributions to diagnosing and treating breast cancer. Jajini Varghese, 39-year-old Consultant in Oncoplastic Breast Surgery at Royal Free Hospital and University College London, is amongContinue Reading
By Victor Edwin New Delhi: Marian Brehmer is an author, freelance journalist and academic researcher, focusing on Islamic spirituality and culture. Based in Istanbul, Turkey, he works for a wide range of magazines and newspapers and is the founder of the blog “Sacred Journalism” (www.sacredjournalism.org), which focuses on spiritual writingContinue Reading
By Victor Edwin Hyderabad: An Islamic scholar in India says interest in other religions helps people tolerate diversities in society. A childhood incident where he experienced motherly care from a Hindu woman convinced S S Waheedulla Hussaini Quadri Multani that humanity is bigger than religion. The Muslim scholar now teachesContinue Reading
Mumbai: Manasi Joshi never set out to become an international athlete. And she certainly didn’t plan to become an advocate for disability rights in her native India. But in 2011, a road crash cost Joshi her left leg, pulling her from her path as a software engineer in Mumbai andContinue Reading
