The US designated Maulana Fazlullah, the chief of Pakistani Taliban, as a global terrorist. TTP had claimed responsibility for the Peshawar attack that resulted in the deaths of about 150 people, mostly children.
Legislators in Xinjiang province - a region of China with a large Muslim population, have approved a ban on women wearing a traditional Islamic garment known as a burqa in public.
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The Modi government has dismissed DRDO chief and missile scientist Avinash Chander almost 16 months before the end of his tenure. He is also the scientific advisor to the defence minister.
Global oil prices have reached the six-year low of $45 a barrel. The low prices are considered to be good for emerging economies like India however is has negative side too.
The Sunni radical group Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is said to be recruiting and operating in some provinces of Afghanistan.
