Dhaka, Bangladesh – In a development that has sent ripples through religious communities, Dhaka police have arrested a 28-year-old man linked to a series of homemade bomb attacks targeting prominent Catholic institutions in the capital this month. The incidents, which struck St Mary’s Cathedral and St Joseph’s Higher Secondary School and College, have heightened fears […]
The Catholic Church, will observe the ‘World Day of the Poor’, on 16 November 2025. The day has a special significance this year, since it comes in the wake of Pope Leo XIV’s first major papal document: An Apostolic Exhortation addressed “to all Christians, on love for the poor,” titled ‘Dilexi Te’ (‘I have loved […]
The Catholic Church observes ‘World Mission Day’ on Sunday 19 October. There is an added significance this year because it is the Jubilee Year and the focus is on becoming ‘pilgrims of hope’. Above all, given the fact that the Synodal process was completed just a year ago, the emphasis continues to be on the […]
Yogendra Yadav wrote this piece in Hindi. We carry a simple translation for our readers. The fundamental lie in the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the voter list has been caught. This lie was exposed by a document that the Election Commission had been hiding for the past three months. This document is the final […]
Rohit Sharma is one of the greatest players in white-ball cricket. He has scored nearly 4,231 runs in T20 internationals, the most by any Indian player. For more than ten years, he was India’s first-choice opener in limited-overs cricket, until he retired from T20 internationals after winning the T20 World Cup on June 29, 2024. […]
There’s this tiny room in GosaiTola, Patna, that’s been quietly doing something amazing since 2015. The Shaheed Bhagat Singh Library doesn’t look like much from the outside, but kids actually choose to hang out here instead of cramming for tests somewhere else. Bhagat Singh’s faded picture hangs over the door, and inside it’s just about […]
The Home of Cricket witnessed a thrilling contest as England defeated India by 22 runs in the 3rd Test to take a 2-1 lead in the five-match series. England won the toss and elected to bat first. The top-order struggle continued for England, but Joe Root once again proved his class, bringing up his 37th […]
It’s 2 AM, and you feel like you’re dragging around a sack of bricks. Your body is begging for rest, but you find yourself scrolling mindlessly on your phone. You’re not even looking at anything that matters—just flicking through social media posts, glancing at Netflix shows that you’ll probably never actually finish, or sending late-night […]
सड़कों पर रहने वाले पशु अक्सर हमसे कुछ कहते हैं।वे कहतें हैं अपने मन की इच्छा, वे बांटतें हैं अपनी मन की व्यथा, वे चाहते हैं हमसे थोड़ा सा स्नेह और करुणा।और इसके बदले में वह हमें देतें हैं बहुत सारी वफ़ादारी। सड़कों पर रहने वाले पशु जिन्हें अक्सर आवारा या बेसहारा पशु भी कहा […]
I didn’t think this would stay with me, honestly. I thought I’d just go, take notes, maybe write something about an NGO, and be done with it. But then, I met Sister Dorothy Fernandes — and everything shifted a little. She wasn’t trying to impress me. No long speeches. No big, dramatic talk about “impact.” […]
It was fifty years ago! The nation will and should never forget that dark, infamous night of 25/26 June 1975, when, the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, declared a state of emergency all over the country, citing internal and external disturbances! That terrible chapter of the country’s history lasted for a full twenty-one-month period till […]
Mammoths, Dodos, and Dire Wolves roaming the earth again seems like a distant dream, right? Well, there’s growing excitement around the idea of bringing back extinct animals — mammoths, dire wolves, even dodos. It sounds like a breakthrough, a leap made in science. De-extinction, as it’s being called, isn’t actually resurrection. It’s not about magically […]