Colonial era law that was struck down by the Delhi High Court in 2009 is reinstated after appeal by Muslim, Christian and Hindu religious groups, politicians and an astrologer.
This month, a Bombay high court sided with an atheist teacher, forcing the school to award him his pay raise and summarily acknowledging his constitutional rights.
Sushmita Banerjee, whose vivid memoir of her life and escape from Taliban-ruled Afghanistan was adapted into a Bollywood film, had returned to Afghanistan to live with her husband and opened a medical clinic for Afghan women was shot and killed outside her home last week.