Beijing: Abandoning its decades-old one-child policy, China will now allow all couples to have two children, according to a communique issued on Thursday by the Communist Party of China, Xinhua reported.
Even Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai and social activist Mukhtaran Mai are not being honoured in Pakistan as women still remained the most backward in the country, a leading daily said Saturday.
As President Barack Obama's comments that religious intolerance in India would have shocked Mahatma Gandhi raised a storm in India, the New York Times asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi to break his "deafening silence."
Vowing to create a "world fit for children", India has reaffirmed its focus on the development of the girl child, ensuring her education and fighting to end discrimination.
US President Barack Obama Thursday invoked India's example to make a plea for religious freedom and how faith leads people to do good and what's right but that faith also can be twisted to be used as a weapon.
Pilot Amritpal Singh, 29, and his passenger were killed instantly when Singh's Cessna 150K crashed into a wheat field shortly after midnight May 31, USA Today reported. The wreckage was discovered around 7:30 that morning.
The British Sikh community has launched a first-of-its-kind political campaign targeting 50 seats nationwide, including three in west London, for the impending 2015 general elections.
