Gender

Nepal ranks among the world's most disaster-prone nations, with agriculture employing 64 per cent of the workforce and contributing 21 per cent to GDP.

This marks a strong mid-year achievement and underlines the government’s push to strengthen the cooperative ecosphere across agriculture, allied and non-farm sectors.

The latest nationwide survey reveals a seismic shift in the age profile of Sri Lanka, with the share of children shrinking and the elderly proportion growing – signalling a departure from decades of youthful-growth to one of rapid ageing and dependency pressures.

In a landmark public health achievement, the World Health Organization (WHO) has validated the Maldives for eliminating mother-to-child transmission (EMTCT) of hepatitis B.

Muttaqi, a key architect of the Taliban's post-2021 takeover diplomacy, travelled to the southern province of Kandahar on Friday for the audience with Akhundzada.

The 24-month cohort follow-up, conducted between August 2022 and December 2024, paints a troubling picture of early marriage, adolescent pregnancy, violence, and severe gaps in reproductive health services for some of the country’s most marginalised women.

the violence was triggered after a 12-year-old Marma girl was allegedly raped by three Bengali youths on September 23 while returning home from tuition in the Singinala area.

The discovery of three transgender persons dead on a roadside in Karachi on the night of September 21 has sent shockwaves through Pakistan’s already vulnerable transgender community, igniting fear, anger, and renewed demands for protection and justice.