Punjab is taking a strong step to tackle child marriage. The provincial government is preparing a new ordinance that will ...

The Penal Code, which considers sex with minors under 14 a crime, fails to eradicate the deeply rooted practice of child ...

It coined the condition referred to as the “Lady Macbeth Effect”, so named after the Shakespearean character who constantly ...

SC bench disapproves of using judicial proceedings as instrument of coercion, harassment; imposes Rs1m in costs.

While imposing a hefty Rs1 million cost on a petitioner, the Supreme Court ruled that using judicial proceedings as an instrument of coercion and harassment is wholly impermissible.In a seven-page ...

But what we bear witness to, along with Mary, is far from a depressing catalogue of miseries. Rather, The Testament of Ann Lee is a gorgeous, muscular celebration of transcendence through joy, of ...

A Zambian man has successfully obtained a court-ordered divorce after appearing before a local magistrate to detail years of physical abuse, segxwal denial, and public humiliation at the hands of his ...

"After a wave of femicides in 2021, the CAQ government promised to increase the number of shelter spaces, but they've fallen ...

Today is the fourth day of Ramadan for the Islamic year; 1447 AH. It is a month full of Allah's forgiveness and mercy; a month during which prayers are answered fast. On every night of the month of ...

The mass rapes by Indian soldiers in Kunan and Poshpora in 1991 cannot be treated as an aberration or tragic residue of a turbulent decade; it was the structured outcome of a state that chose ...

This year's Ramadan fast begins in Nigeria today, Wednesday, February 18, 2025. This followed the official announcement by the Sultanate Council in Sokoto, last night, of reports of the moon sighting ...

A-44-YEAR-OLD man of Lusaka’s Maichola, Kabanana Compound, Zambia, has couriered his wife to court for repeatedly saying he ...