Abuja: At least 4 people were killed and 41 injured on June 10 in a suicide bomb blast that ripped through a church in Nigeria, the police said. Emmanuel Ayeni, police commissioner of Plateau State, said the suicide bomber was among the dead in the incident in state capital Jos, Xinhua reported. He said the bomber joined worshippers at the Christ Chosen Charismatic Church during Sunday's mass, and approached the...
11:37 AM, Jun 11, 2012
Panaji: There is more trouble for the Congress in Goa. Outgoing Goa minister Churchill Alemao has reportedly blamed chief minister Digamber Kamat for his defeat. He said Kamat worked against him. Alemao, who contested from Navelim, and three of his family members had lost the elections. Meanwhile, Digambar Kamat said the Congress lost because they did not project him as the Chief Ministerial candidate. ...
09:40 PM, Mar 08, 2012
Tamil Nadu Bishop's Council has asked the Prime Minister to stop harassing the Christians. ...
08:46 PM, Mar 08, 2012
Panaji: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) swept the Assembly elections in Goa and with that, the hardest fall came for the Alemao family. All four members of the family lost their seats including Goa ministers Churchill and Joaquim. In fact, seven of 12 'family' candidates fielded by the Congress were trounced as Goa rejected family raj. Goa PWD minister Churchill Alemao, his brother and urban development minister Joaquim Alemao, Churchill's...
06:58 PM, Mar 07, 2012
Panaji: Many of the Congress stalwarts including four from Churchill Alemao family and state party chief Subhas Shirodkar bit the dust as the BJP-MGP alliance on Tuesday managed to bag majority of seats in Goa Assembly elections. Congress NCP ministers including Churchill Alemao, Joaquim Alemao, Manohar Asgaonkar, Filip Nery Rodrigues, Jose Philip Dsouza, Nilkant Halarnkar and others lost the polls to the new faces mostly fielded by BJP-MGP as election...
04:11 PM, Mar 06, 2012
Panaji: Elections to the 40-member Legislative Assembly in Goa will be held on Saturday, where 10.25 lakh voters will decide the fate of 215 candidates, including nine women and 74 independents in the fray. The coastal state is the first in the country to adopt Poll Monitoring System in the assembly elections. Under the system, photographs and fingerprints of all voters will be captured on computers. The voting will begin...
11:50 AM, Mar 02, 2012
Watch the special show on the politics of Goa, which is set to go for vote on March 3. ...
11:28 AM, Mar 01, 2012
Panaji: More than one-third of the 40 seats in the Goa Assembly up for grabs have been cornered by half a dozen families. The Assembly Elections of 2012 could well see the creation of a feudal political elite in the state as the Congress battles charges of growing nepotism. It has been called dinner table politics as the elite families club together. The question that Goa will answer in elections...
09:41 AM, Feb 29, 2012
Washington: Mahatma Gandhi has been baptised in proxy by a US church, drawing sharp reaction from his grandson and others. Gandhi was baptised by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS), headquartered in Salt Lake City in Utah on March 27, 1996; the confirmation of which was completed on November 17, 2007 at Sao Paulo Brazil Temple, according to researcher Helen Radkey. The Church of Jesus Christ of...
04:29 PM, Feb 28, 2012
Minsk: A gold bar weighing one kilogram was dropped into a charity collection box in the Belarussian city of Brest, a media report said on Friday The gold bar was discovered in a charity box set up in a grocery store to collect money for the Orthodox Church, the ONT television reported. The anonymous donor also slipped the $50,000 gold brick's certificate of authentication into the collection box. According to...
05:06 PM, Feb 11, 2012
Pune: A struggling Mumbai FC pulled off a major surprise as they upset the title aspirations of Churchill Brothers by surging to a 2-1 comeback victory over the Goans in their 19th-round I-League clash at the Balewadi Sports Complex in Pune on Monday. This was the Mumbai outfit's first win in the New Year after six straight losses, beginning with the defeat against Chirag United Kerala on January 4. The...
09:05 PM, Feb 06, 2012
Margao: Churchill Brothers allowed East Bengal to come from behind in a 1-1 draw to split the points in the 17th-round tie of the I-League at Nehru Stadium, Fatorda, Margao on Friday. Churchill had the lion's share of scoring chances throughout, especially in the second half, but their strikers once again failed to take advantage. Luck also eluded them as Lenny Rodrigues's and Henri Autchouet's attempts at the goal hit...
11:19 PM, Jan 27, 2012
Shillong: Brazilian striker Beto scored a brace to help Churchill Brothers beat hosts Shillong Lajong in the 15th round of the I-League at the JN Sports Complex on Wednesday. Playing before a packed stadium on a newly-laid turf, Churchill put in a brilliant performance. They dominated for most part of the first half and netted their first goal in the 34th minute from the penalty spot, when Lajong skipper Zenith...
10:17 PM, Jan 18, 2012
Washington: President Barack Obama and his family have celebrated Martin Luther King Jr's birthday at a morning worship service. Obama, his wife, Michelle, and daughters Sasha and Malia sat in the second row of Washington's historic Zion Baptist Church, as bright sunlight streamed through stained-glass windows. The church commemorated the slain civil rights leader's 83rd birthday with a photo of King on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and the...
09:35 AM, Jan 16, 2012
Panaji: If Father Bismarque Dias sticks to his guns till March 3, he may well become the first man of the cloth to contest elections in Goa. The thin, wiry French beard-sporting Roman Catholic priest who hails from St Estevam island, in the Cumbharjua constituency near Panaji, is at ease preaching from the pulpit as well as leading civil society agitations against illegal mining and state-endorsed abusive land use policies....
12:52 PM, Jan 12, 2012
Vatican City: Pope Benedict XVI marked the end of 2011 with prayers of thanks and said humanity awaits the new year with apprehension but also with hope for a better future. "Another year approaches its end, while we await a new one, with the trepidation, desires and expectations of always," Benedict said at the traditional New Year's Eve vespers service, as he delivered his homily from the central altar of...
09:27 AM, Jan 01, 2012
Abuja: A powerful blast hit a Catholic church on the outskirts of the Nigerian capital Abuja during a Christmas service on Sunday killing many people, residents said, and one counted 19 bodies from the explosion. Emergency services said 10 bodies had been recovered from the scene so far, and earlier said there were not enough ambulances available to evacuate all the dead and the wounded. Witnesses said St Theresa's Church...
05:38 PM, Dec 25, 2011
Thiruvananthapuram: Keralites on Sunday celebrated Christmas with traditional fervour and piety rejoicing the birth of Jesus Christ in Bethlehem bringing hope and peace to humanity. As church bells tolled signalling the moment of Nativity, faithful congregated in large numbers for the Midnight Service in cathederals and churches of various Christian communities where senior prelates and priests conducted the special mass and gave out the Christmas message. The state, where Christians...
11:50 AM, Dec 25, 2011
Wellington: A strong earthquake struck the Christchurch city of New Zealand on Friday, sending goods tumbling from shelves and prompting terrified holiday shoppers to flee as buildings shook. There was no tsunami alert issued and the city appeared to have been spared major damage. One person was injured at a city mall and was taken to a hospital, Christchurch police said in a statement. But there were no immediate reports...
07:37 AM, Dec 23, 2011
