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The ban triggered global condemnation and remains the Taliban's biggest obstacle to gaining recognition as the legitimate rulers of Afghanistan. Afghan girls attend a religious school, which remained open since the last year's Taliban takeover, in Kabul, Afghanistan.  ISLAMABAD: Two years after the Taliban banned girls from school beyond sixth grade, Afghanistan is the only country in the world with restrictions on female education. Now, the rights of Afghan women and children are on the agenda of the United Nations General Assembly Monday in New York. The U.N. children’s agency says more than 1 million girls are affected by the ban, although it estimates 5 million were out of school before the Taliban takeover due to a lack of facilities and other reasons. The ban triggered global condemnation and remains the Taliban’s biggest obstacle to gaining recognition as the legitimate rulers of Afghanistan. But the Taliban defied the backlash and went further, excluding women and gir

Police and mine rescue teams of the BCCL arrived hours later even when they were immediately informed, locals alleged.  A large number of police and CISF personnel are present at the spot. Patna: Three women in Jharkhand’s Dhanbad were buried alive on Sunday as land sunk around them while they were out to relieve themselves as they didn’t have toilets at their homes. One of the women was caught in the subsidence first, two others who had accompanied her tried to help, but were buried too. The victims — Parla Devi, Thandhi Devi, and Mandava Devi — lived in the Dhobi Kulhi area of Gondudih colliery — which has unstable old underground workings, and is fire and subsidence affected. The Gondudih Khas Kusunda Colliery is operated by Bharat Coking Coal Limited (BCCL), a subsidiary of Coal India Limited. A huge landslide occurred with a loud noise near Hilltop High-rise outsourcing company near Gondudih colliery in Dhanbad when the women had stepped out to relieve themselves, locals said, add

Several public interest petitions filed by him have created a political stir in Kerala. The cases, including the Palarivattom flyover scam and the 'monthly payments' allegations against Veena Vijayan.                                                                    Activist Girish Babu KOCHI: Activist Girish Babu (47) was found dead in his home in Kalamassery on Monday morning. According to the police, the preliminary investigation behind the death suggests he died after a cardiac arrest. Girish was undergoing treatment for health-related issues, which he also published through a Facebook post last month. The police reached Girish’s house and started the inquest proceedings. Girish has been living with his family in Kalamassery and it was his wife who found him dead in the bedroom this morning, police said. “It seems like a case of cardiac arrest. However, we can reach a final conclusion only based on the autopsy report,” said a police officer. Several public interest peti

Sunil Kanjarbhat (46), the captain of the flight, sustained multiple abrasions with trauma to the chest wall and spine. Officials gather around a damaged aircraft after it veered off the runway with six passengers and two crew members on board at the Mumbai airport amid heavy rains. MUMBAI: Neil Diwan, the co-pilot of a private jet that skidded off the runway at Mumbai airport suffered a spinal injury and has been moved to another hospital for surgery, Dr Deepak Namjoshi, the director of Criticare Asia hospital said on Friday. He said seven others admitted to Criticare Asia’s Andheri East hospital are stable and being monitored. A private jet veered off the runway while landing at the Mumbai airport on Thursday amid heavy rains and all the eight people onboard have been hospitalised with injuries. The Learjet 45 aircraft VT-DBL belonging to VSR Ventures, had flown from Visakhapatnam. “Neil Diwan (in his early twenties) has a spinal fracture and paraplegia (a condition where both the

Police said the children came across a land where they spotted milkweed plants and started plucking the flowers. Suddenly, Vishwa allegedly slipped and fell into a pit filled with rainwater. Vishwa (inset) drowned in a pit filled with rainwater while plucking flowers for Vinayakar Chathurthi near Tambaram Sanatorium railway station. CHENNAI: An 11-year-old boy drowned in a 10-foot deep pit filled with rainwater while plucking flowers for Vinayakar Chaturthi, near Tambaram Sanatorium railway station, on Saturday. Police said the land, on which the pit is located, belongs to the railways and has been leased out to a school, but remains unused. The boy was identified as K Vishwa, a Class 5 student. On Saturday evening, Vishwa and his friends set out to pluck milkweed flowers, considered auspicious for Vinayakar Chaturthi, in the locality. Police said the children came across a land where they spotted milkweed plants and started plucking the flowers. Suddenly, Vishwa allegedly slipped

The 12-room Sidus Rink hotel located on the Camel Back Road was undergoing renovation. Prima facie, a short circuit appears to have caused the fire. The fire was brought under control after nearly five hours of struggle. DEHRADUN: A massive fire broke out at the historic Sidus Rink hotel in Mussoorie in the early hours of Sunday destroying it completely. The cause of the fire is yet to be ascertained while preliminary investigation is suspecting an electrical short circuit. The 12-room Sidus Rink hotel located on the Camel Back Road was undergoing renovation. It housed what was once Asia’s largest wood-floor skating rink which was burnt to ashes. According to the police, the owner of the hotel was sleeping in his room and was rescued by breaking open his window. Three hotel staff, who were trapped inside at the time of the blaze, were rescued safely, Mussoorie Station House Officer Shankar Singh told PTI. Speaking to this newspaper, Station Fire Officer Dheeraj Singh Tadiyal said, “

The victim's classmates claimed that the Dean of Academics BK Roy insulted the victim who got six backlogs in his first-semester examination, which was held online in 2021 because of the pandemic. Image used for representational purpose only. GUWAHATI: A third-year student of NIT-Silchar allegedly died by suicide on the campus on Friday evening. The body of the student, a native of Arunachal Pradesh, was found hanging in his hostel room. Following this, his disconsolate classmates stopped the police from taking down the body alleging that he was forced to resort to the extreme step following actions of the college authority. Two hours later, as the police managed to send the body for post-mortem examination, the students began a demonstration in front of the Dean of Academics BK Roy’s official residence on the campus. They alleged that Roy had insulted the victim who got six backlogs in his first-semester examination, which was held online in 2021 because of the pandemic. Due to

The officers allegedly stole at least $600 in cash and other items from passengers' luggage.                                                      The two officers were arrested in July A shocking video of two Transportation Security Administration (TSA) workers stealing money and other items from bags of passengers at Miami International Airport has gone viral on social media. According to the New York Post, the officers allegedly stole at least $600 in cash and other items from passengers’ luggage on June 29 this year. The officers identified as 20-year-old Josue Gonzalez and 33-year-old Labarrius Williams, were arrested in July when enforcement officials began investigating claims of theft occurring at the checkpoint. A video of the theft has emerged now, showing the agents working together to take money from wallets and purses that passed them on the way to the X-ray machine. In the footage, one of the officers is seen putting his hand inside a wallet and slipping the money insi

The accused was questioned after being picked up on the basis of an FIR lodged against him by his mother-in-law in Kodala police station area on Thursday.  The accused planned to start business by selling his wife's ornaments, said police. (Representational) Berhampur, Odisha: A 28-year-old labourer allegedly strangled his 22-year-old wife to death and chopped her body into pieces before disposing of those into a gorge in Rushikulya River in Odisha's Ganjam district, police said on Friday. The incident took place in Bhagabanpur village in Sorada police station area. He was questioned after being picked up on the basis of an FIR lodged against him by his mother-in-law in Kodala police station area on Thursday. "Following a heated exchange of words at their home on Wednesday night, the accused strangled his wife to death and carried her body to the gorge, chopped it into five pieces with an axe and threw those into the river," a police officer said. He said though the e