Kerala: Go ahead, take whatever amount of cash you need. A rare display of Mercy by a Catholic Parish Priest. Story below: A catholic church in India made this public invitation on Sunday as it opened it donation boxes to needy people, Global Christian News reported. The surprising act of generosity has given hope and […]
This week, Pope Francis has named 17 new cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church from around the world, many of whom will help choose his successor. The new cardinals come from five continents, and include the Vatican’s envoy to Syria. Though some observers expected to see a new cardinal from India, the Pope chose to […]
New Delhi: Warning ! Those who are depositing their unaccounted old currency in someone else’s bank account! The tax department has decided to slap charges under the newly enforced Benami Transactions Act against violators! You may be penalized, prosecuted and ‘chalkki peeso’ in jail! And rigorous jail term of a maximum seven years. Official sources […]
India’s central bank has formed a task force to deal with the issue of providing an exchange facility to people in Nepal who possess Indian currency notes of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 denomination that were recently withdrawn. The decision has been communicated to the Nepali side, with the Nepal Rastra Bank (NRB) saying the […]
HATISOR VILLAGE, ASSAM: To overcome the cash crunch, people in this border village are using Bhutanese currency whose value has jumped as much as 25 per cent to match Indian currency. In the border area of Dadguri, Bhutanese currency is easily accepted as retailers and grocery shop owners get their stocks from Bhutan. “There is […]
LUCKNOW: – An Indian express train derailed early Sunday (Nov 20), killing over 100 people in one of the country’s worst rail disasters in years, police said, as emergency workers searched the mangled wreckage for survivors. Fourteen carriages of the Indore-Patna Express derailed just after 03:00 local time on Sunday (21:30 GMT Saturday) near the […]
Demonetization in India. It’s not just inconvenience, it’s drastic forced bankruptcy! Rural India is in turmoil while the chattering classes discuss whether or not there is a ‘chip’ in the new two-thousand rupee bank notes. According to a report from a village in Uttar Pradesh called Bulandshahr, Indian farmer Zakir Khan should be sowing his winter […]
The killfie: More selfie-related deaths in India than the rest of the world combined in the last two years! Don’t let that hunger for more ‘likes’ on FB kill you! The ‘killfie’: it’s a new name for the selfie! Next time you’re at the Taj Mahal, standing on a precarious cliff or see an approaching […]
What can the subcontinent expect from President Donald Trump? Bewilderment, for starters says Michael Krepon, Co-Founder, Stimson Center. If the new occupant in the Oval Office is unfamiliar with Russia, China, the workings of NATO, nuclear deterrence, and the impact of trade compacts, do not expect him to be well versed on the Nuclear Suppliers […]
Social Media and the Impact on the family was the focus of this year’s Annual Regional Assembly of Signis Bijhan. Signis or the ‘Sign of Fire’ is the name of the social communication association of the Catholic Church, a body of audio-visual and new media professionals. Thirteen representatives from Bihar and Jharkhand are spending two […]
The Indian police are ‘looking’ for Sadhvi Deva Thakur, a self-proclaimed Indian god-woman, who is on the run after firing celebratory shots in the air at a wedding which killed the groom’s aunt and critically wounded three of his relatives. In a video of the incident that took place on Tuesday (15 November) in Haryana […]
The sanctification of the newly restored Boudhanath Stupa in Nepal begins today (18 November). And it didn’t take one penny of government funds! With gold, cash and labour contributed by locals and Buddhist organisations, Kathmandu’s famed Boudhanath stupa has been fully restored, making it the first of the country’s more than 700 quake-damaged heritage structures […]
