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Female university students in Afghanistan returned to campuses Wednesday morning as usual but left in tears after being turned away by Taliban security forces, citing an overnight ban on their higher education. The Islamist Taliban regime announced late on Tuesday that public and private universities across the country were ...

Islamabad —  In a last-minute controversial move, Pakistan has banned the screening of its international award-winning movie, “Joyland” in theaters across the country for containing “highly objectionable” content.The movie, which features a married man falling for a transgender woman, was supposed to be released in Pakistani cinemas Friday.In May, ...

SRINAGAR: After opposition outrage over what it had alleged was a deliberate attempt to fiddle with the demography of Jammu and Kashmir to benefit Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the upcoming Assembly elections, the Deputy Commissioner (DC) of Jammu has withdrawn the notification authorising tehsildars to issue certificates of ...

A group of male university students have been condemned in Spain after footage showed them yelling misogynistic threats at a neighbouring all-girls college residence.Spanish prosecutors have launched a criminal hate crime investigation over the viral video, which prime minister Pedro Sanchez denounced as demonstrating “inexplicable, unjustified and absolutely repugnant ...

#Pakistan News Calls for justice grow after a video of policemen torturing nine Muslim men in western Gujarat state goes viral. Video shows locals cheering the police for torturing the Muslim men in PM Modi's home state of Gujarat. (Twitter/@VtvGujarati) Nine Muslims have been publicly flogged by policemen in ...

NEW DELHI — Police in India's Kolkata city have opened an investigation into allegations that independence leader Mahatma Gandhi was depicted as a demon at the ongoing Durga Puja festival.A festival structure that showed Hindu goddess Durga aiming her trident at a bald, bespectacled man holding a walking stick ...

Jammu: A senior police officer was on Wednesday transferred and attached with police headquarters, a step that followed an outcry over halting of fruit-laden trucks from Kashmir valley to outside markets.The transfer order of Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP), traffic national highway Shabir Ahmad Malik was issued by the ...

Police in India's eastern Jharkhand state on Tuesday announced that they were forming a special investigative unit to look into the alleged murder of a 19-year-old woman. The death has created fresh outrage about misogynistic crimes in the country, as well as highlighting religious tensions and political turmoil in the region. ...

An alliance of Kashmiri political parties has called for a meeting next week to discuss the "inclusion of non-locals" in the voter list after New Delhi granted voting rights to people from mainland India living in Kashmir. The move will allow about 2.5 million potential new voters in India-administered ...

After outrage, GoI cancels ‘Asikni’ festival Jammu, Aug 2: Following an outrage over using Adi Shankaracharya’s picture and invitation to relish Wazwan platter, the Union Ministry of Culture, has cancelled forthcoming ‘Asikni’ festival. As per reports, Union Minister of Culture Meenakshi Lekhi had planned a grand Asikni festival from ...