Row over Mother Teresa’s remains

INDIA flatly rejected yesterday a demand by the Albanian government for the return of the remains of Nobel laureate Mother Teresa, buried in the eastern city of Calcutta.

“Mother Teresa was an Indian citizen and she is resting in her own country, her own land,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Vishnu Prakash said.

The ethnic Albanian nun, who was known as the “Saint of the Gutters” for her work among the poor of Calcutta, was given Indian citizenship in 1951.