After backlash by the international community over the neglect of girls’ education in Afghanistan, the Taliban have created a “directorate of academic curriculum”, local media reported on Saturday. Under the direction of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the Afghan university officials would revise the curriculum of
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To enhance maritime surveillance capabilities of Sri Lanka, the Government of India may provide one Dornier 228 Maritime Patrol Aircraft from the Indian Naval Fleet on a gratis basis for two years, a local media report said. According to reports, the aircraft is being provided for an interim period of
Hadi Matar, who stabbed Indian-origin author Salman Rushdie in Western New York state on Friday, has been charged with attempted murder and assault, local media reported on Saturday. According to a statement from the Chautauqua County District Attorney, the 24-year-old attacker rushed to the stage at the Chautauqua Institution yesterday
Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma led a ‘Prabhat Pheri’ in Guwahati on Saturday morning as the ‘Har Ghar Tiranga’ campaign kicked off. The chief minister appealed to the people of Assam to hoist the tricolour and to participate with full fervour in the August 13-August 15 drive that urges
District administration officials in Assam’s Darrang have exhumed the body of a Hindu man who was buried by his family following his death after fellow villagers refused to cremate him because he had married outside his caste. The incident took place on Friday in the Ganakchuba area of Mangaldoi in