State-appointed Committee

An Indian national in Singapore was today jailed for 18 weeks for his role in the country's worst riot in 40 years, becoming the third to be punished in the case.

Women shunned after contracting the dreaded HIV virus, a disease passed on from their spouses' unsafe sex practices, are victims twice over. Now a controversial solution has been proposed by the Maharashtra government. This includes compulsory pre-marital HIV testing, a solution suggested by a state-appointed committee set up late last year.

An Indian national in Singapore was today jailed for 18 weeks for his role in the country's worst riot in 40 years, becoming the third to be punished in the case.

Women shunned after contracting the dreaded HIV virus, a disease passed on from their spouses' unsafe sex practices, are victims twice over. Now a controversial solution has been proposed by the Maharashtra government. This includes compulsory pre-marital HIV testing, a solution suggested by a state-appointed committee set up late last year.