US health officials on Monday updated their Zika virus guidelines, saying that pregnant women could contract Zika from a sex partner of either gender. The virus can cause serious birth defects including microcephaly, where babies are born with abnormally small heads and brains. The new update follows…

On Tuesdays whenever I drive to town, I see thousands of people thronging the temples, on Fridays it's the mosques and on Sundays the churches. The crowds increase during exams, when children and even parents queue up to ask God for an easy way out. "Dear God," prayed a girl one night…