Mother Teresa's elevation to sainthood brought cheers in the Mother's House, headquarters of the Missionaries of Charity in Kolkata, and a big thanksgiving Holy Mass is being planned.Read News

Mother Teresa née Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu was born on August 26, 1910 in Skopje, today the capital of Macedonia. She was the youngest of three children of an Albanian grocer named Nikola and his wife Drane. Her father died when she was eight. Read News

The country pays homage to the father of the nation- Mahatma Gandhi on his martyrdom day on Saturday as he was assassinated on this day in 1948.Read News

On the 119th birth anniversary of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today put in the public domain, for the first time, 100 secret files on the freedom fighter whose disappearance 70 years ago remains a mystery.Read News

The latest set of witness statements released by a UK-based website set up to unravel the mystery surrounding Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose's death seem to confirm that the freedom fighter died as a result of a plane crash in Taiwan.Read News

Mother Teresa of Calcutta, the Nobel laureate who dedicated her life to helping the poorest of the poor, will be made a saint of the Roman Catholic Church in September 2016, an Italian Catholic newspaper reported on Thursday.Read News

President Pranab Mukherjee, Vice President M Hamid Ansari and Prime Minister Narendra Modi has sent his greetings to fellow countrymen on the eve of birthday of Guru Nanak Devji.Read News

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday unveiled a statue of Swami Vivekananda and paid a floral tribute at Ramakrishna Mission in Petaling Jaya, Malaysia, on the sidelines of a crucial summit of South East Asian nations.Read News

Shri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu preached and spread loving devotional service and congregational chanting through personal demonstration. He propagated the cult of devotion by personally practicing it. Read News

Issuing a call to "renew our commitment to non-violence and lives of dignity for all," Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said, "Today, at a time of escalating conflicts, rising extremism, massive displacement and rapidly growing humanitarian need, Mahatma Gandhi's dedication to non-violence remains an example for us all." Read News