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Militants armed with guns and grenades stormed the offices of a US-based Christian charity in Pakistan on Wednesday, killing six aid workers in an attack blamed on Islamist rebels.
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LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan: Majabeen Subhanzada runs her own construction company in southern Afghanistan and says she regularly receives death threats trying to force her back inside her home. She also runs an organisation that helps women become
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MANILA, Philippines – A non-government organization has launched an information drive to educate voters on the new automated system to be used in the May elections in the Philippines. With only 2 months left, the Ecumenical Institute for Labor
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'Pakistan Times' Jammu & Kashmir Desk NEW DELHI (India): Senior Kashmiri Hurriyet leader, Syed Ali Gilani has said that Indian troops are using the Kashmiri women as a weapon of war in occupied Kashmir and committing serious crimes against them with
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President Barack Obama is turning aggressive on healthcare. Shedding his trademark restraint, he is asking Democrati
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Advts: Retail Plus | Classifieds | Jobs | Obituary | WASHINGTON: The United States will start accepting applications for H-1B visas, most sought after by Indians, from April 1 for the fiscal year 2011. In a statement, the U.S. Citizenship and
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... in the “Excellence in Local Legislation” category, first runner-up in “Excellence in Social Services”, second runner-up in the “Best Performing LGUs”, ...
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... strong social integration and supportive social services, maintaining good government for the people, and building communities around people's needs. ...
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The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Asian Forum of Parliamentarians on Population and Development (AFPPD) were selected on Tuesday winners of the 2010 UN Population Award. The award has been given out annually to individuals or groups for their
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'Pakistan Times' UK Bureau LONDON (UK): Muslim faith schools in the United Kingdom continue to surpass national GCSE (General Certificate in Secondary Education) averages, including in modern foreign languages, says a report in ‘The Muslim News.’ In
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KABUL (PAN): The second-vice president Muhammad Karim Khalili has called for severe punishment for those commit violence against women in Afghanistan. Addressing a special gathering of women on the eve of International Women's Day on Sunday, Khalili said
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KABUL (PAN): Canada says gender equality -- integral to its programming priorities -- is a key objective of its work in Afghanistan, torn by three decades of conflict. It claimed supporting a range of projects seeking to strengthen the human rights of
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In an attempt to get registered in the Guinness Book of World Records, over 10,000 women participated in a fabric painting event organised here on Monday by scribbling and painting on a five kilometre long cloth. Nearly 10,458 participants including
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Washington: The United States will start accepting applications for 65,000 H-1B visas for skilled professionals coveted by Indian techies for fiscal 2011 from April 1. "Cases will be considered accepted on the date that it takes possession of a properly
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President Barack Obama said Tuesday he'll bring in high-tech bounty hunters to help root out health care fraud, grabbing a populist idea with bipartisan backing in his final push to overhaul the
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Indeed, a court in Arizona is currently hearing the case of a man accused of running down and killing his daughter whom he allegedly considered too 'Westernised.' The United Nations estimates that 5,000 women are murdered by family members each year in
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The success of any major Games event depends on how well the volunteers deliver the goods as proved during the Beijing Olympics two years ago. The Delhi Commonwealth Games Organising Committee (DCGOC) is looking to match that as DCGOC chairman Suresh
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WASHINGTON: The US will start accepting the applications for H-1B visas, most sought after by Indians, from April one for the fiscal 2011. In a statement, the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) said it will accept petitions for 65,000 H-1B
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Thirty students from the Sheffield Hallam University in Britain will volunteer for the Commonwealth Games here under an agreement signed Tuesday. A memorandum of understanding (MoU) was signed by Sheffield Hallam University Vice Chancellor Philip Jones
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The US will start accepting the applications for H-1B visas, most sought after by Indians, from April 1 for the fiscal 2011. In a statement, the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) said it will accept petitions for 65,000 H-1B visas as
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New Delhi, Mar 9 (UNI) Home Secretary G K Pillai today criticised the intellectuals and the Non Government Organisations for not condemning Maoist violence in strong terms, and pointed to their 'hypocritical attitude' in leaving no stone unturned to
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New Delhi: The Trinamool Congress will abstain from voting on the women’s reservation bill in the Rajya Sabha. The party has two MPs in the house. Sources tell CNN-IBN that the party believes the government is “bulldozing” the bill through the
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Officials defend president’s record on women’s issues “As long as it is the right thing to do, the government has to stick to it.” — Jennifer Wang, Council of Labor Affairs minister Government officials leapt to defend President’s Ma
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NEW DELHI Women in the Asia-Pacific region have little economic and political power, impacting economic growth prospects of developing nations, the United Nations said in a report released on Monday. According to the UN Asia-Pacific Human Development
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General Health News Font Size The vibrant economic transformation in recent decades in Asia and the Pacific regions, though a case of pride, has not translated into progress on gender equality. Discrimination and neglect are threatening women,s very