Indian priest elevated as cardinal by Pope Francis

In a grand consistory held in the Vatican on Saturday, 51-year-old Indian priest George Jacob Koovakad was elevated to the rank of cardinal by Pope Francis. IMAGE: The red hat, or biretta, being......

What did Modi Tell Pope Francis?

Prime Minister Narendra D Modi gave Pope Francis his trademark hug when the Indian leader encountered the head of the Catholic church on the sidelines of the G7 summit at the Borgo Egnazia resort......

Modi hugs Pope Francis at G7; invites him to India

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday invited Pope Francis to visit India and said he admired the pontiff's commitment to serving the people. IMAGE: Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Pope Francis......

Catholics Pay Homage To Late Pope

Catholics pay homage to Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI at the Vatican before his funeral on Thursday. Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger, the German theologian who became Pope Benedict XVI, served as head of......

Will Sterlite verdict push investors away from Tamil Nadu?

What will the Centre and the Tamil Nadu government do to answer the queries and fears of investors who will want to be doubly sure they would not be harassed at a later date, as has been happening......

Prayers being outsourced to India!

It is6.30 a.m. in Kerala, God's Own Country.A Holy Mass at the St Joseph Catholic church in Kochi is being conducted. The language is Malayalam, but the intentions are dedicated to a departed soul......

Who can be immune to Oscars magic?

'They are perhaps the only night when the stars, those celestial seraphs, become as vulnerable, as doggedly human, as the rest of us,' says Vikram Johri. IMAGE: Priyanka Chopra with Liev Schreiber......

Why I am so excited about Pedro

Here was this filmmaker, who has won so many awards, including a couple of Oscars, and there was not an ounce of arrogance in him, says Aseem Chhabra.It was the fall of 1984. I had to pick up a......

Read this before you watch Elizabeth

Before the British Raj, before hill-stations and the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre, before Gandhi and an empire on which 'the sun never set' -- there was Queen Elizabeth I of England. She ruled for......

Review: Spotlight is an essential film about truth

Spotlight is a powerful film, with a terrific ensemble cast, raves Raja Sen. Journalism rarely looks as good as it does in American movies. This, I assure you, is not because journalism isn’t......

Sri Lanka bomb blasts: Vaas, Herath call for unity

'I was tired, that morning, when I was at my house, I heard a sound, and then people were saying a bomb had gone off at the church. I rushed there, and I'll never forget the scene.' IMAGE: Police......