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While North India’s regional politicians like Samajwadi party leader Mulayam Singh Yadav and Rashtriya Janata Dal leader Lalu Prasad Yadav are vigorously opposing the Women’s Reservation Bill claiming that the minorities will not have any say in the legislatures, the Muslim community itself seems divided on the issue.

Even as controversy rages on gay rights in India, following a High Court verdict in its favour, the church in Mizoram has kicked off a controversy by threatening to act against homosexuality.

As thousands of protesters gathered in Bangkok, the United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship on Sunday issued a formal statement from the main stage at Phan Fa bridge demanding that the government dissolve the House of Representatives within 24 hours or face mass street demonstrations.

The declining sex ratio over the past several years shows that girls and women not only face indignities and gender inequality in society, they are even denied the right to be born if their families do not wish so. In fact many families do not wish their women folk to deliver baby daughters.

The eastern coast of central Japan on Sunday was hit by a strong earthquake, rattling buildings of the country, including the crowded Tokyo capital.

All the indications show that the stage is finally set for the next British general election, possibly on May the 6th 2010. Three main parties fight for the control of the House of Commons and then to govern the British Isles and their dependencies. According to the election law, a party must get majority of the seats if it wants to form the next government.

Swamy Nithyanantha who was caught in a sex scandal while he was in a compromising position with the film actress Ranjitha, accepted the nature and said that the actress was with him to take care him when he was ill. "Ranjitha and her family members are my devotees and they look after me when Iam ill", Nithyanantha said.