Cremation of rape victim amid anger and grief in India

While there has been much hue and cry in India after a 23 years student was gang raped and tortured in a moving bus, nothing could save her even when she was flown to a Singapore hospital for treatment.

Her body was flown back to India and was hurriedly cremated amid anger and grief, early Sunday morning today. The funeral pyre was lit by her sobbing father at a crematorium in Dwarka after relatives and friends said their final prayers at a ritual at the house where the girl lived in Delhi.

In a bid to tame down the emotions, her body was received by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress president Sonia Gandhi in the early hours.

Read more about it at: The Indian Express
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Pakistan student wins gold in World Mathematics Competition

A 13-year old student, Moosa Fairoz has secured the first position in an online World Mathematics Competition (WMC) held in Australia. Fairoz, a resident of Phalian, Punjab, was awarded a gold medal in Australia recently. 

Fairoz secured 4,405 point and got the first place while another Pakistani student Hasnain secured second position in the competition with 4,303 points in the 11-13 years category. In the category of age 14-18 years, another student from Pakistan, Osama, secured second place with 3,318 points. About 1.57 million students from all over the world participated in the competition.

Shared from: Daily Times 

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