Nepal plane-crash site found!

Nepal plane-crash site found!

Search-and-rescue officials in Nepal have located the crash site of a plane carrying 22 people that went missing on Sunday (May 29).An army spokesman posted a photo of the crash site on Twitter. It showed the shattered plane on a mountainside strewn with debris, including what appeared to be a wing of the plane displaying […]

67 year old Nun is World Martial Arts Champ!

67 year old Nun is World Martial Arts Champ!

“Jesus is my first love and Taekwondo is my passion!” Standing at just 4 feet 11 inches tall, 67 year old Franciscan sister Linda Sim is a martial arts world champion. Last month, the nun, who is a fifth-Dan black belt holder became the first Singaporean to win a gold medal in the World Taekwondo […]

Pakistani Man freed after Mother ‘pardons’ him for killing Sister

Pakistani Man freed after Mother ‘pardons’ him for killing Sister

A Pakistani man who murdered his celebrity sister was freed last week, after a court ruled it was not an “honour killing”, allowing their mother to pardon him under Islamic Sharia law in Pakistan, where a murder victim’s family is able to pardon a convicted killer. Six years ago, in 2016, Waseem Azeem strangled his […]

‘Beaten, Persecuted, Attacked, but still Hopeful’

‘Beaten, Persecuted, Attacked, but still Hopeful’

Though Christians are beaten,  persecuted, attacked again and again, they have not lost hope, stated Christian human rights activist Asif Bastian, from  The Voice of Justice group. He said Christians are ‘repeatedly attacked by Islamic fanatics and criminals with impunity’. Civil society groups in Pakistan called for an end to ‘unabated attacks on people belonging […]

My Sister is now my Brother

My Sister is now my Brother

An unusual case has come to light in Pakistan. Two sisters living there have become brothers after undergoing a sex change operation. Both of them belong to a Zamindar family of Punjab based in Pakistan. “I have reached Gujarat as a boy from Islamabad. I am so happy about this that I cannot put it […]

Taliban fed and grew on Poppy Fields, Meth, and More …

Taliban fed and grew on Poppy Fields, Meth, and More …

How did the Taliban sustain itself for 20 years? Nishant Mishra did some reading up and presented this report. The Taliban group has a $2.3 billion fund for its fight in Afghanistan, with millions coming in from the opium and heroin trade, drugs, donations, extortion, illegal mining, and real estate. Annually, the Taliban has earnings […]

International Community failed in actual empowerment of Afghans : Fr Prem SJ

International Community failed in actual empowerment of Afghans : Fr Prem SJ

The US forces and the intervention in Afghanistan did little for the actual empowerment of the Afghan people, says Jesuit Father Alexis Prem Kumar, who had spent several months in Taliban captivity. Father Prem was abducted on June 2, 2014, from  the Zendjan district of Afghanistan’s Herat province and released on February 22 the following […]

‘Awesome Power’ vs the Tengdro Monks

‘Awesome Power’ vs the Tengdro Monks

A lost cellphone led to a raid on a monastery, multiple arrests,a suicide and a secret trial of four Buddhist monks in 2020, says a recently released Human Watch Report. Chinese authorities in the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) have prosecuted four monks who received up to 20 years in prison for dubious offenses, says Human […]

Myanmar: A Human Rights Catastrophe

Myanmar: A Human Rights Catastrophe

It is over five months since the military junta deposed Myanmar’s elected government, and the situation remains a human rights catastrophe. Efforts towards regional diplomacy have not borne results. The five-point plan adopted by ASEAN in April is yet to be implemented and has not resulted in any efforts towards de-escalation, or lessening of loss […]

Imam faces flak over Sex-worker’s funeral

Imam faces flak over Sex-worker’s funeral

A Muslim maulvi (cleric) who made headlines by officiating at the funeral for a sex worker in Bangladesh has faced a backlash from local Muslims. About a fortnight ago, Golam Mostafa, an imam at Daulatdia Railway Station Mosque in Rajbari district, broke a social taboo to perform final rites for Hamida Begum, a sex worker […]

‘Corona hasn’t affected China-India friendship’

‘Corona hasn’t affected China-India friendship’

The Chinese Ambassador, Sun Weidong, has recently praised India’s ‘kindness’ towards China in these troubled times.  As social media circulates fake and half-true images of China and the coronavirus outbreak, both China and the UN agencies are understandably tense.  China reiterated rumours about COVID-19 or cornavirus were terrible and had the potential to stigmatise Chinese […]

India readies for first manned space mission

India readies for first manned space mission

Four Indian pilots are currently in Russia training to become astronauts. India isplanning its first manned mission in space. Four Indian Air Force test pilots who have been chosen to be trainee astronauts for India’s first manned mission to space, expected in a couple of years, began their basic training for space missions at the […]