Kabul [Afghanistan], April 22 (ANI): Several activists and political parties on Thursday called on the Taliban to reopen schools for girls in Afghanistan "as soon as possible".
Kabul [Afghanistan], April 18 (ANI): A number of women in Kabul have urged the Taliban to reopen schools for girls above grade six, local media reported.
New Delhi [India], April 16 (ANI): Paediatric Gastroenterologist at Delhi's Indraprastha Apollo Hospital, Dr Smita Malhotra on Friday said that there is no need to shut schools because teachers and students are testing COVID-19 positive, and emphasised on taking precautionary measures instea
Kabul [Afghanistan], April 14 (ANI): Amid the worldwide condemnation of the Taliban regime's diktat to ban girls from attending school over sixth grade, a group of religious scholars assembled in Afghanistan's south-eastern Paktika province calling for reopening of schools for girls.
Kabul [Afghanistan], April 14 (ANI): Taking a grim view of the ongoing human rights violations in Afghanistan, Hannah Neuman, a German member of the European Parliament, called for urgent measures to lift the ban on the exclusion of the girls from the schools.
New Delhi [India], April 14 (ANI): A teacher and a student of a private school in South Delhi have been found COVID-19 positive, following which other students who were in the same class were sent home on Wednesday.
Kabul [Afghanistan], April 13 (ANI): Women's rights activist Zarifa Ghafari called on the Taliban to reopen all girls' schools and asked the world leaders to pay attention to the humanitarian situation in Afghanistan and "not differentiate between Afghans and Ukrainians".
Guwahati (Assam) [India], April 9 (ANI): Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on Saturday announced that the common public will soon be able to visit parliament house as they could in the pre-COVID era.
Srinagar (Jammu and Kashmir) [India], April 8 (ANI): With an aim to promote art culture in the valley, the Institute of Advanced Studies in Education (IASE) conducted a drawing and painting competition on Friday, informed the college authorities.
Kabul [Afghanistan], April 8 (ANI): Religious scholars once again called on the Taliban to reopen all girls' schools in Afghanistan's capital Kabul and said there was no legal justification for banning girls above sixth grade from going to school.
Brussels [Belgium], April 8 (ANI): The Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) have expressed deep concern over the Taliban's recent decision to indefinitely extend the ban on allowing girls in seventh grade and above to attend school.
Kabul [Afghanistan], April 7 (ANI): US special envoy for human rights and Afghan women and girls Rina Amiri has said that the reopening of schools for girls above the sixth grade in Afghanistan might lead to discord within the Taliban leadership, reported local media.