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North Macedonia Foreign Affairs Minister Bujar Osmani visits Kolkata, eyes to deepen bilateral ties with India

Sep 02, 2023, at 03:12 am

Kolkata/IBNS: A delegation from Skopje, Republic of North Macedonia, comprising Foreign Affairs Minister Bujar Osmani, Ambassador to India Slobodan Uzunov, and others visited Kolkata.

Missionaries of Charity in Kolkata gets new Superior General after 13 years

Mar 14, 2022, at 05:27 pm

Kolkata/IBNS: Missionaries of Charity, which was established by late Nobel Peace laureate Mother Teresa as a Catholic religious congregation in 1950, has got its new Superior General after 13 years, media reports said.

Centre restores foreign fund license of Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity

Jan 08, 2022, at 07:25 pm

New Delhi/Kolkata/IBNS: The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has restored the foreign fund license of Catholic religious congregation established by Nobel Laureate Mother Teresa, media reports said.

Missionaries of Charity debunks Mamata tweet, says 'none of its bank accounts was frozen by MHA'

Dec 28, 2021, at 02:14 am

Kolkata/IBNS: After the Central government, the Missionaries of Charity (MoC) too on Monday evening clarified that "none of its bank accounts had been frozen by the Union Ministry of Home Affairs", debunking the tweet by West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and others claiming so on the micro-blogging site.

No Missionaries of Charity (MoC) bank account frozen, says Centre after Mamata claims so in tweet

Dec 28, 2021, at 12:03 am

Kolkata/New Delhi/IBNS: Hours after West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee had accused the BJP-led Central government of "freezing" all the bank accounts of Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity (MoC), the Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) on Monday evening claimed it did not freeze any account of the charity founded by the late Nobel Peace laureate. The MoC also later issued a statement denying any freezing of their accounts. 

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee remembers Mother Teresa on death anniversary

Sep 05, 2018, at 03:40 pm

Kolkata, Sept 5 (IBNS): West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday remembered Mother Teresa on her 21st death anniversary.

Mamata accuses BJP of attempting to malign Missionaries of Charity

Jul 12, 2018, at 05:05 pm

Kolkata, July 12 (IBNS): Giving a political angle to an alleged child trafficking case in Ranchi, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday accused the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which runs the central government, of attempting to malign the prestige of Missionaries of Charity.

Mother Teresa to be named as co-patron of Archdiocese of Calcutta

Sep 04, 2017, at 11:59 pm

Kolkata, Sept 4 (IBNS): In a major development, the Archdiocese of Calcutta is all set to declare Mother Teresa as the co-patron.

Saint Teresa's birth anniversary observed in Kolkata, Mamata Banerjee pays homage

Aug 26, 2017, at 11:33 pm

Kolkata, Aug 26 (IBNS): West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee joined other followers on Saturday in remembering Saint Teresa on her 107th birth anniversary.

ISIS had plans to attack Kolkata's Mother House: NIA

Dec 25, 2016, at 10:44 pm

Kolkata, Dec 25 (IBNS): In a significant development in their ongoing probe into a busted terror module in West Bengal, National Investigation Agency (NIA)'s investigators said that few ISIS terrorists, who are currently in jail custody, had plotted a plan to attack and create hostage crisis in Kolkata's Mother House, which is the headquarter of Missionaries of Charity and where Saint (Mother) Teresa was buried in 1997.