Holy Cross

The number of coronavirus cases in India has increased to 23,077, including 718 deaths, Union Health Ministry said this morning, adding that 1,684 new cases were reported in the last 24 hours, 37 people died. The increase in the number of fresh COVID-19 cases in the country is "more or less linear, not exponential", the government said on Thursday....

The unilateral ceasefire during the holy month of Ramzan may have brought a halt to anti-terrorist operations in Kashmir but security agencies have warned of a rise in recruitment of local youths into terrorist groups, that has crossed 80, and a rise in infiltration from various sides of the Line of Control (LoC).

The news came just hours before their high school graduation ceremony was set to begin: Valedictorian Christian Bales and student council president Katherine Frantz would not be able to give their speeches.

A holy cross was found desecrated near a chapel in Raia village in South Goa, police said today.

A Special Investigation Team (SIT) of the Goa Police has arrested a 50-year-old man in connection a series of cases of alleged desecration of holy crosses in South Goa district, a senior officer said today.

Catholic associations in Mumbai, along with residents of posh locality Bandra, held silent protests on Wednesday outside the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation or BMC office in Bandra West. Over 300 people had gathered to agitate against the civic body after it demolished a 122-year-old Holy Cross that was allegedly situated on private land in Band...

"You couldn't make this up...honestly. There was a Monk, a Woman and a Taxi crossing the North sea...'" - says the descriptor for a video going viral. It shows the exact moment an Uber driver decided to race a rising tide along the Holy Island Causeway in Lindisfarne, England and instantly regretted it.

Over two lakh pilgrims have so far paid obeisance at the Amarnath cave shrine and the yatra which was suspended thrice due to unrest in the Kashmir Valley is now continuing smoothly, officials said today.

Delhi, Assam and Punjab have been put on high alert after security agencies warned that a group of six terrorists led by a former Pakistani soldier have crossed into India through the Pathankot border in Punjab. The terrorists could try and hit "hotels and hospitals" during Holi tomorrow, the alert has warned.

A Keralite nun was denied permission to take the the All India Pre Medical Entrance Test (AIPMT) on Saturday after she refused to remove her veil and Holy cross as required under the CBSE's new dress code.

Two Sikkimese will be part of the 14-member Indian team that will participate in the 5th World Taekwondo Poomsae Championship 2010 to be held at Tashkent in Uzbekistan from October 8 to 10.

The number of coronavirus cases in India has increased to 23,077, including 718 deaths, Union Health Ministry said this morning, adding that 1,684 new cases were reported in the last 24 hours, 37 people died. The increase in the number of fresh COVID-19 cases in the country is "more or less linear, not exponential", the government said on Thursday....

The unilateral ceasefire during the holy month of Ramzan may have brought a halt to anti-terrorist operations in Kashmir but security agencies have warned of a rise in recruitment of local youths into terrorist groups, that has crossed 80, and a rise in infiltration from various sides of the Line of Control (LoC).

The news came just hours before their high school graduation ceremony was set to begin: Valedictorian Christian Bales and student council president Katherine Frantz would not be able to give their speeches.

A holy cross was found desecrated near a chapel in Raia village in South Goa, police said today.

A Special Investigation Team (SIT) of the Goa Police has arrested a 50-year-old man in connection a series of cases of alleged desecration of holy crosses in South Goa district, a senior officer said today.

Catholic associations in Mumbai, along with residents of posh locality Bandra, held silent protests on Wednesday outside the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation or BMC office in Bandra West. Over 300 people had gathered to agitate against the civic body after it demolished a 122-year-old Holy Cross that was allegedly situated on private land in Band...

"You couldn't make this up...honestly. There was a Monk, a Woman and a Taxi crossing the North sea...'" - says the descriptor for a video going viral. It shows the exact moment an Uber driver decided to race a rising tide along the Holy Island Causeway in Lindisfarne, England and instantly regretted it.

Over two lakh pilgrims have so far paid obeisance at the Amarnath cave shrine and the yatra which was suspended thrice due to unrest in the Kashmir Valley is now continuing smoothly, officials said today.

Delhi, Assam and Punjab have been put on high alert after security agencies warned that a group of six terrorists led by a former Pakistani soldier have crossed into India through the Pathankot border in Punjab. The terrorists could try and hit "hotels and hospitals" during Holi tomorrow, the alert has warned.

A Keralite nun was denied permission to take the the All India Pre Medical Entrance Test (AIPMT) on Saturday after she refused to remove her veil and Holy cross as required under the CBSE's new dress code.

Two Sikkimese will be part of the 14-member Indian team that will participate in the 5th World Taekwondo Poomsae Championship 2010 to be held at Tashkent in Uzbekistan from October 8 to 10.