Economic necessity often pushes women into sex work. Advocates are debating the best response: decriminalization or finding ...

Women in South Asia have been described as "silent contributors" to the economy, undermining their transformational inputs. Socio-cultural biases and lack of resources create significant roadblocks ...

Israeli forces continued to bombard Gaza, killing and wounding scores of Palestinians, while the fate of nine paramedics remain unknown.

Ironically, the very demonstration of people’s attachment to their local ecology was used by centralised decision-makers to ...

As a child, I lived with my grandmother in a rural village in Sri Lanka where women often played an active economic role - working in sectors like ...

Female entrepreneurs in South Asia have been described as “silent contributors”, as their input to the economy and society is ...

Sikkim's tourism sector is set for major expansion with infrastructure developments and new skill-building programmes ...

An investigating officer said no suicide note was found. Crime and forensic teams recovered two broken phones from the scene.

Bibek Rai visited the Burmese Embassy in Kathmandu to appeal for the release of Nepalis trapped in Burma. Girendra then got ...

The priest said that for Dalits in the South Asian sub-continent, there is no escaping the evil practice. “So, we ensure ...

But others have been shut down by the USAID cuts. One example: Plan had a major initiative in Nepal with a $20 million USAID ...

Moscow said on Friday (March 14, 2025) that its forces had recaptured another village in their drive to dislodge Ukrainian forces from their last remaining footholds inside Russia's Kursk region.