ISLAMABAD (AA) – India’s decision to effectively ban its citizens from studying in Pakistan has put in jeopardy the future of hundreds of Kashmiri students. Scores of students from Indian-administered Kashmir are currently enrolled in Pakistani medical and engineering colleges and universities, while a similar number have completed their...
Nearly nine in 10 young Americans want the government to address the student loan debt crisis, with a plurality—but an overall minority—supporting full cancelation, according to the results of a national survey published Monday. The survey, conducted by Harvard Kennedy School’s Institute of Politics (IOP), found that 85% of respondents u...
NEW DELHI – Higher education authorities in India have urged Indian nationals not to enroll in any college or educational institution in Pakistan. In an advisory issued on Friday April 22 for Indian nationals and overseas citizens, the University Grants Commission and All India Council for Technical Education said that students are advis...
Researchers have discovered the first known interstellar meteor to hit Earth, according to a recently released United States Space Command document. An interstellar meteor is a space rock originating from outside the solar system. The meteor, known as CNEOS 2014-01-08, crash-landed along the northeast coast of Papua New Guinea on Jan. 8, 2014...
Leaders at Buffalo Public Schools in New York are pushing to allow Muslim students to take off from school for their religious holiday. Muslims across the U.S. and globally are now observing Ramadan. The month of fasting ends in early May this year, with the Eid al-Fitr festival, including a big celebration attended by thousands […]
On Monday, officials said Bangladesh has shut the largest private school for Rohingya refugees. Since December, Bangladeshi authorities have been shutting down schools set up by the Rohingya, and late last week closed Kayaphuri School. The school was set up by Mohib Ullah, a prominent Rohingya community leader allegedly gunned down in Septembe...
On Sunday women’s rights activists pledged to launch a wave of protests across Afghanistan if the Taliban failed to reopen girls’ schools within a week. Thousands of secondary school girls flocked to classes Wednesday after the Taliban reopened schools for the first time since seizing power last August. But officials ordered the schools shut a...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Women foreign ministers from 18 countries on Friday expressed their concern over the suspension of schooling for girls beyond the sixth grade in Afghanistan. “As women and as foreign ministers, we are deeply disappointed and concerned that girls in Afghanistan are being denied access to secondary schools this spring,” for...
ISTANBUL – Educational institutions reopened in Afghanistan after a gap of nearly seven months. Officials of the Taliban-led interim government held a ceremony to mark the new academic calendar. At a function in Amani High School in Kabul, Syed Ahmad Shahid Khel, a Taliban official, said Islam considers knowledge, and understanding “as b...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The Taliban’s decision to suspend schooling for girls beyond the sixth grade is “deeply damaging” for Afghanistan, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Wednesday. The decision came as Afghanistan’s educational institutions re-opened Wednesday with girls who were to begin education beyond th...
