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Afghanistan: Taliban orders ban on female students in university entrance
Updated : 1 week, 1 day ago IST
In the latest decree, the Taliban has banned female students from sitting in university entrance exams which are slated to take place next month, the Afghan news agency TOLOnews reported.
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Rural India Supporting Trust and the American India Foundation announce a
Updated : 1 week, 3 days ago IST
New York [USA]/ New Delhi [India], January 27 (ANI/BusinessWire India): On the meaningful occasion of India's 74th Republic Day, NY-based Rural India Supporting Trust (RIST) and the American India Foundation (AIF) have renewed their commitment to India's nation-building by announcing a USD 7
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Politics, cricket should not be mixed up: PCB not pulling out of Pakistan'
Updated : 1 week, 6 days ago IST
This comes after Cricket Australia announced the senior national side's withdrawal from the white-ball series against Afghanistan due to the Taliban's "further restrictions on women's and girls' education" in the country
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Afghanistan: Publishers, booksellers say import, sales down amid closure o
Updated : 2 weeks, 4 days ago IST
Publishers and booksellers on Monday said the import of books has stopped and the sale of books in Kabul has reduced dramatically, TOLO News reported, adding that the drop in sales comes amid the closure of schools and universities for women and girls under the Taliban regime.
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J-K: Women participate in 'Beti Bachao Beti Padhao' awareness campaign in
Updated : 1 month ago IST
To create awareness for the 'Beti Bachao Beti Padhao' campaign, women gathered in huge numbers in Kupwara on Tuesday.
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The power of volunteering: Educate Girls' 18,000+ village-based volunteers
Updated : 2 months, 1 week ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], November 30 (ANI/PRNewswire): Educate Girls, a non-profit working towards girls' education in rural India celebrates its 15th anniversary this December. Since 2007, the organisation has rallied an army of 18,000+ village-based youth volunteers called Team Balika
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Room to Read India holds National Seminar on Life Skills Education and rol
Updated : 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], November 8 (ANI/BusinessWire India): Room to Read's Girls Education Program has been working towards building agency and aspiration of adolescent girls for over two decades now. The organization's work, especially in the educationally backward blocks have brought forth ins
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New UNAMA chief Otunbayeva meets Taliban leaders, discusses importance of
Updated : 3 months, 3 weeks ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], October 17 (ANI): The new head of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), Roza Otunbayeva on Sunday met with several Taliban leaders and discussed a range of issues including the importance of girls' education.
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EU special envoy Niklasson calls for reopening of schools for Afghan girls
Updated : 3 months, 3 weeks ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], October 13 (ANI): Special envoy for European Union for Afghanistan Tomas Niklasson called for the reopening of schools for Afghan girls above grade six and said that the education of women is essential for progress in Afghanistan, TOLOnews reported.
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Taliban to review Afghan curriculum in view of Islamic law
Updated : 4 months, 2 weeks ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], September 24 (ANI): The Taliban have announced that it plans to review and revise the curriculum in view of Afghan culture, international educational standards, and Islamic law.
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Afghanistan: Taliban replaces acting education minister in reshuffle
Updated : 4 months, 2 weeks ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], September 21 (ANI): Amid a global call for the reopening of secondary schools for girls, the Taliban's supreme leader Haibatullah Akhundzada has reshuffled several national and provincial positions, including the acting education minister.
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Denying Afghan girls from education is national treason: Kabul's Envoy to
Updated : 4 months, 2 weeks ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], September 19 (ANI): As the closure of schools for girls in Afghanistan completed one year on Sunday, the Charge d'Affaires of Kabul's Permanent Mission to the United Nations, Naseer Ahmad Faiq said denying the girls their basic rights to education is "national treason
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