Come June 30 and 50 paise will be the minimum coin accepted in the country’s markets as all denominations below it will cease to be legal currency. “From this date, these coins (denomination of 25 paise and below) shall cease to be a legal tender for payment as well as on account,” the Finance
Shirva Welfare Association Kuwait (SWAK) will be celebrating the Shirva Parish feast - 2011 in Kuwait on Friday, February 4th 2011. On this occasion, mass will be offered on the same day at 9.15 a.m. at the Holy Family Cathedral, Kuwait, and the celebration / get-together
Preparations for the ‘annasantarapene’ (community meal) on the Confraternity Sunday, 2nd January 2011 have been in full-swing since the last week. Besides the vegetables and items that were received through ‘Horekanike’ on Thursday, 30th December 2010
The small township of Moodubelle wore a festive look as hundreds of men and women in traditional dresses with band and ‘chende’ went in a procession from the quadrangle of St. Lawrence Composite PU College on Thursday, 30th December 2010 at 3 pm carrying various
The election was peaceful in the various Vidhana Sabha constituencies of Kaup such as Kaup, Shirva, Yellur, Padubidri, Udyavara Jilla Panchayath constituencies. But the response was dull from the voters as until noon in most of the places only 20 % voters only turned up for voting.
Parishioners of Holy Cross Church, Pamboor who could not participate in the “Horekanike” procession that was held on Thursday, 30th December 2010 due to unavoidable reasons, made it a point to bring their ‘vojem’ of various types of vegetables, coconuts, raw bananas, plantain
The parishioners of Belle bid adieu to the old year 2010 and welcomed New Year-2011 with Holy Hour and Thanksgiving Mass from 10.30 pm on 31st December 2010 to 1 am on 1st January 2011. The Holy Hour from 10.30 to 11.30 pm was conducted by Br. Mahesh D’Souza in a meaningful manner
In the elections that are being held on Friday, 31st December 2010 for twin local bodies-Zilla and Taluk Panchayat, there was moderate polling in the Belle Grama Panchyat jurisdiction by 12 noon.
Senior Janapada Vidvansa K. Lakshminarayana Kundanthaya, Dr. Manjarichandra and popular child actress Charithra Hegde will be honoured with Vidhyarathna award organized by Kaup Ananthraj Charitable Trust and Kaup Vidhyaniketana Group of Institutions during the functions
The parishioners of Our Lady of Lourdes Church Kanajar and dear ones bid a tearful farewell to Sr. Rosebell in the evening of Wednesday 29th December 2010. Funeral cortege was blessed by Fr. Alwyn at 3.30 pm at the Lourdes convent.
Madhya Pradesh Government officially celebrated Christmas at Chief Minister’s Residence in Bhopal along with around thousand five hundred Christians from across the state. The venue was decorated with twenty feet height star depicting the life of Christ, Crib, Christmas tree
The annual parish feast of St. John the Evangelist Church was celebrated with great devotion, joy and merriment by the parishioners of Pangala on Wednesday, 29th December 2010 at 10.30 am. Prior to the solemn feast Mass, at 10 am, Rev. Dr. Leslie D’Souza, parish priest
Mr. Paul Moras, President .Konkani writers Forum released a konkani poetry book, ’Moran Sanddleli Pakam’, written by Jo.Si. Siddakatte. "There is a need of standardization in Konkani."said Mr. Moras, the President of Konkani Writers Association. He appealed the gathering to fight
When I got a call from a friend asking me to write something about my experience of childhood which I spent in my beautiful village Moodubelle, I was taken aback for a few seconds as I did not know how to reply to my friend for his unusual request.[By Ivan Menezes]
KCA UK held the Christmas celebration, which is popularly known as ’Christmas Boom’ for the fourth successive year on December 26, 2010. Families belonging to different faith and communities participated in this fun filled Christmas Boom extravaganza. The event was held at