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In a step towards enhancing transparency, the Centre extended facility of e-filing of RTI applications to Ministries of Home Affairs and Agriculture.

An activist in Guangdong claims that his disabled 8 year old stepson has been kept imprisoned in a "black jail" for the past four years. However, some netizens are raising doubts about the story, and instead accuse the man of abandoning the child. [ more › ]

A fresh scandal in the Maldives is set to make March's Noodle-gate look like some pointless argument over instant foodstuffs. [ more › ]

Shanghai's Minhang district is to end its free bicycle rental service this month because not enough people were using the service, and people kept stealing the bikes, Shanghai Daily reports. [ more › ]

Fiji's National Federation Party (NFP), comprising mostly of Indian-origin members, says it is ready for the elections scheduled for 2014 in that south pacific island nation.

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has said that 4.13 million full jobs have been created since the beginning of her administration in January 2011.

A woman has given evidence in a court in New Zealand implicating four men of Indian origin of raping her in turns in April 2011.

Indian-origin men in New Zealand face gang-rape charges

After twice failing to get the nod from the International Olympic Committee, the squash world is hoping that the IOC, at its meeeting in St. Petersburg on May 29, will shortlist the racquet sport for the 2020 Games.

The Afghan government should take urgent steps to halt an alarming increase in women and girls imprisoned for “moral crimes,” Human Rights Watch said Tuesday.