Islamabad, Dec 26 (IANS) Two teenaged girls suffered horrific burns after a man threw acid at them in Pakistan's Karachi city.

ISLAMABAD : A parliamentary delegation comprising members of both house of the Indian parliament was warmly welcomed by the Senate Chairman and the Members when it arrived in the Parliament House to witness proceedings of the Upper House.

Barely two weeks after the Senate passed women protection bills, two girls in Karachi became victims to yet another acid attack. The bills are aimed at ensuring safety and security to women against c .....

The bills are aimed at ensuring safety and security to women against crimes such as forced wedlock, acid attacks, marriage to the holy Quran and other anti-women offences.

KARACHI, Dec 23: Women rights activists and law practitioners at a seminar on Friday called for effective implementation of the recently enacted laws providing enhanced and deterrent punishment for anti-woman practices in the country.

DELHI - As the battlelines are drawn for state assembly elections in five Indian states - Uttar Pradesh (UP), Punjab, Uttarakhand, Goa and Manipur - beginning with UP (the country's most populous state with 166 million people) on February 8, parties are deploying ingenious ways to attract the electorate.

KARACHI, Dec 20: As the process of selection of vice chancellors of public-sector universities have begun at the Governor’s House, senior academicians have once again severely criticised what they described as the ‘flawed procedure’ of appointing the head of a higher education institution and demanded that the chancellor bring merit to the appointment mechanism.