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THE new debate over the minimum marriage age for girls has revealed a massive regression in our society’s social thinking and the implications are truly alarming. Ninety years ago, a Hindu member of the Central Assembly of India moved a ...

It is time to set up public toilets for women across the country. As Sindh Minister for Women’s Development Shahla Raza has pointed out, there is an urgent need to raise the issue at all forums including assemblies so that ...

Some weeks ago, humans made a marvellous scientific breakthrough—after ten years of research and hard work, scientists around the world working on a project called the Event Horizon Telescope combined telescopes on sites across the world to create one enormous, ...

RECENTLY, the Election Commission of Pakistan released its district-wide data on the gap between female and male registered voters in the July 2018 elections. The ECP revealed there were 12.54m fewer registered women voters, although women constitute nearly 50pc of ...

Indian author Savi Sharma is right in saying, “Everyone has a story to tell. Everyone is a writer, some are written in the books and some are confined to hearts.” These stories vary in nature as widely as the human ...