On Mother Teresa's canonisation on Sunday, key parts of "The Mother", a new docu-drama on the global icon who dedicated her life to the poor, will be shot in Kolkata, where she arrived in 1929 and where she founded the Missionaries of Charity in 1948....
The "extraordinary" life of Mother Teresa, who worked relentlessly for the upliftment of the destitute and who will be declared a saint by the Roman Catholic Church, must be brought alive on the silver screen, says India's acclaimed veteran filmmaker Shyam Benegal....
If Mother Teresa, to be canonised at the Vatican on September 4, is to be named a patron saint of anything it should be for "misinformation". In the last 20 years of her life, truth became an unknown entity to her. The media aided and abetted her lack of integrity and in a way she cannot be blamed ...
The All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) on Friday defended the practice of triple talaq and polygamy, professing that polygamy is a social need and a blessing and not a curse for women....
Seventy per cent of Indians -- mostly young -- wish to re-elect Narendra Modi as Prime Minister in 2019, an online poll said on Friday. However, women's support for the re-election of the government was marginally lower at 64 per cent....
For those who accuse Nobel Peace Prize winner Mother Teresa of "religious bigotry" and baptising even dying people, her close associate Sunita Kumar could be the perfect counter. A devout Sikh, Kumar says she often sat in the same chapel beside the Catholic nun who the Vatican will canonise on Sund...
The Supreme Court verdict on land acquisition for the Tata Nano project in West Bengal's Singur could pave the way for strong reforms in the methodology adopted for land acquistion. It may also facilitate enactment of a standard mechanism for such acquistion, industrialists and economists said on Thursday....
When the world celebrates the proclamation of Mother Teresa as a 'Saint' on Sunday, September 4, by Pope Francis in the Vatican, a church in Maharashtra will also have its own memorable celebrations....
Debuting with a book that gives voice to the lives of people of Indian origin in Trinidad and Tobago, author Aliyyah Eniath believes there is a strong need to convey the stories of the diaspora to the world....
The 10th Biennial Global Conference of World Malayalee Council, which was held in Bangalore from August 26-28, elected its global leadership for 2016-2018 headed by Issac John Pattaniparambil as the Global Chairman and Dr. A. V. Anoop (Chennai) as WMC Global President....
