"Action to be taken against those not following dress-code"

Shrimahant Ravindra Puri, Secretary of Mahanirvani Akhara and President of Akhil Bhartiya Akhara Parishad told ANI...

Merck Foundation CEO, African First Ladies announce award winners

Accra [Ghana]/ Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], June 7: Merck Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Merck KGaA Germany,...

No short clothes in three major Mahanirvani Akhara temples

A dress code has been implemented for women and girls in three major temples that come under Mahanirvani Akhar in...

Gender equality important for a world without hunger

As the situation of Afghanistan continues to deteriorate under Taliban's hardline restrictions, taking a veiled dig,...

Central Asia-EU meet: Leaders express concern about Afghanistan

President of the European Council, Charles Michel, while speaking at the meeting, called for the establishment of an...

Taliban continue to intensify repressing Afghan women, girls: HRW

Human Rights Watch has said that on the one hand, the Taliban continue to beg for recognition and foreign help,...

Taliban policies 'discriminatory': Report

As per the reports of Amnesty International, the harassment campaign of the Taliban to systematically repress Afghan...

Two-Thirds of Afghanistan's population face food insecurity: HRW

"Two-thirds of the country's population is food insecure, including 875,000 children facing acute malnutrition....

"Afghanistan remains one of world's worst humanitarian disasters"

The organization in a statement said two-thirds of Afghanistan's population is food insecure, including 875,000...

Afghanistan women start kitchen with takeaway food service

In the face of Taliban prohibitions on employment, a group of Afghan women and girls in the province of Herat have...

Over 3,000 women participate in 'Saree Walkathon' event

The event which was organised by Rajkot Police alongwith 25 organisations, covered a distance of three kilometres...

UN experts call on Taliban to end "brutal" forms of punishment

A group of UN-appointed ten Special Rapporteurs, including Richard Bennett and members of the Working Group on...