Vatican City, Sep 4 (IANS) Singing popular Bengali devotional songs, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday walked with members of her delegation to St. Peter’s Basilica to participate in the canonisation of Mother…
Vatican City, Sep 4 (IANS) Tens of thousands of people flocked to Vatican City’s St Peter’s Square on Sunday to watch Pope Francis declare Mother Teresa a saint. Pope Francis will celebrate a Mass and…
Kolkata, Sep 4 (IANS) It was during her ride aboard the toy train to Darjeeling that Mother Teresa got the ‘divine mandate’ to serve the poor and 70 years on, that journey on the Darjeeling…
By Arul Louis New York, Sep 4 (IANS) Mother Teresa, who is being declared a saint by Pope Francis on Sunday, has been hailed as the “Saint of the Gutters of Kolkata”. But her sisters…
Rewa (Madhya Pradesh), Sep 3 (IANS) In a landmark achievement, three sisters of Madhya Pradesh’s Rewa district obtained their PhD degrees together in their first attempt and also registered their names in the ‘Limca Book…
New Delhi, Sep 3 (IANS) Taking strict action against 20,000 striking nurses in the national capital, as hospitals struggled to cope with soaring dengue and chikungunya cases, the Delhi Government on Saturday said it was…
New Delhi, Sep 3 (IANS) President Pranab Mukherjee on Saturday expressed happiness over the forthcoming canonisation of Mother Teresa and said every Indian will take pride in the recognition being accorded to her for service…
New Delhi, Sep 3 (IANS) Noted NGO Sulabh International on Saturday handed over a fixed deposit receipt of Rs 5 lakh to Dana Manjhi, a poor villager of Odisha who was forced to carry his…
Mumbai: Lyricist Javed Akhtar during the special celebrity screening of film Guddu Rangeela in Mumbai on July 2, 2015. (Photo: IANS) The AIMPLB on Friday defended the practice of triple talaq and polygamy, professing that…
New York, Sep 3 (IANS) Family income and age play a key role in determining whether women living in rural Nepal could have home births or hospital deliveries, a new study has found. For the…
Kolkata, Sep 3 (IANS) On the eve of her canonisation in Vatican City where Pope Francis will confer sainthood on Mother Teresa, people on Saturday braved the rain to visit the city’s “Mother House” –…
New Delhi, Sep 3 (IANS) Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Saturday completed 100 days in office and announced a road map for the state including a green initiative, homes for the poor, and development…
New York, Sep 3 (IANS) While the Islamic State (IS) continues to be one of the most influential terrorist groups in the real world, American White nationalists outperform them in the virtual world in nearly…
Beijing, Sep 3 (IANS) A glass-bottomed bridge in China deemed as a record-breaker when it opened on August 20 has closed, media reports said. The record-breaking structure hanging over the Zhangjiajie Grand Canyon closed on…
Ranchi, Sep 3 (IANS) Thousands of people facing the threat of eviction from their houses staged a protest outside the Raj Bhavan in Ranchi on Saturday. The protesters had gathered under the banner of Ghar…
Washington, Sep 3 (IANS) Scientists are set to name a new fish after US President Barack Obama honouring his decision to create a new protected area off the Hawaiian coast. The National Geographic reported on…
London, Sep 3 (IANS) The bishop of Grantham has become the first Church of England bishop to say that he is gay and in a relationship. Bishop Nicholas Chamberlain, a suffragan in Lincoln diocese, was…
Bhubaneswar, Sep 2 (IANS) In yet another shocking incident after Dana Majhi’s case in Odisha, a 108 ambulance driver allegedly ordered the parents of a seven-year-old girl to get off midway after the child died…
Srinagar, Sep 2 (IANS) As his colleagues battle violence in the Kashmir Valley, a junior level police officer has found time to marry a girl born in Muzaffarabad — the capital of Pakistan-administered Kashmir. Owais…
New Delhi, Sep 2 (IANS) The All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) on Friday defended the practice of triple talaq and polygamy, professing that polygamy is a social need and a blessing and not…