As a goodwill gesture, Nepal has shared with India, some of its ancient rocks, unique gems and precious stones known as the Shaligram. Believed to be more precious than gold and silver, the Shaligram will be used for the construction of a majestic idol of Lord Ram in Ayodhya. The faithful celebrated the occasion with rituals and song & dance.

Inside South Asia: Nepal's gift to India: Precious stones for Ram Temple

The UN Food Agency says malnutrition rates in Afghanistan are at record highs. Scores of families can't afford to feed their children. Millions have been pushed into extreme poverty and hunger since the Taliban takeover in 2021. Why are western powers that left the afghan people at the mercy of the Taliban, now acting as mute spectators?

Inside South Asia: Poverty, Hunger, Malnutrition: The story of Afghanistan

The Taliban Administration has banned most female aid workers and last year stopped women and girls from attending high schools and universities. Many female working as judges, prosecutors were threatened as well as they became the target of revenge attacks as they tried and convicted men accused of gender crimes including rape and murder.

Afghanistan: Taliban administration has banned most female aid workers

Afghanistan is facing its coldest winter in 15 years. Afghans are also facing food shortages, with four million children being malnourished. At least 170 people have died due to the cold wave, including nearly 80,000 livestock. The poverty-stricken citizens don't have enough money to heat their homes and hospitals are overwhelmed with the sick.

Afghanistan faces another humanitarian crisis

The United Nations on Monday pleaded with Afghanistan rulers and Taliban to provide more exemptions to its ban on female aid workers. Martin Griffiths talked of the vital role women play in the massive effort to support struggling Afghans.

In the face of a 'savage' winter, UN pleads with Taliban for exemptions to female aid workers

The Taliban Ministry of higher education has now ordered private universities to not allow its female students to take University level entrance examinations. Highlighting its policy of restricting women from attaining higher education, a letter from the ministry addressing institutions in the northern provinces of Afghanistan including Kabul say that institutions which will not observe the rules would face legal action.

Afghanistan: Taliban underscores its resistance against women's education

Taliban on Saturday banned female students from taking university entrance exams this year in all public and private universities in Afghanistan. With this, Afgan girls won't be able to take the Kankor test, a test which thousands of high school graduates take this exam each year to continue their education.

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Taliban on Saturday banned female students from taking university entrance exams this year in all public and private universities in Afghanistan, reported the country's local media outlets.

Now, Taliban ban Afghan girls from appearing in university entrance exams

As the status of women in Afghanistan continues to become worse in the absence of basic rights, the highest-ranking woman at the United Nations urged the Muslim countries on Wednesday (January 26) to help the Taliban to move from the 13th century to the 21st.

Highest-ranking woman at UN urges Muslims to help Taliban move from ‘13th century to 21st’

Bilal al-Sudani, a significant regional commander for the Islamic State group, was killed in a US military raid in Somalia that was ordered by President Joe Biden, according to US authorities on Thursday (January 26).

US military kills senior Islamic State figure in US raid in Somalia

Afghanistan is suffering one of its coldest winters, with temperatures plummeting to as low as minus 35 degrees Celsius. The impact has been made worse by the limited amount of humanitarian aid being distributed in the country.

WION Climate Tracker: Extreme cold plunges Afghanistan's humanitarian crisis to a new low

One of the most common questions while reporting on conflicts or a threat-posing circumstance consists of asking the interviewee, 'Can I name you in the story?' Over the past few weeks, as Afghanistan's Taliban government dismantled women's right to education campus after campus, WION reached out to a number of Afghan women living under Taliban's anti-women tyranny.

Exclusive: 'Why is the world neglecting Afghan women?'

In a nondescript Kabul locality, Dr Sona (last name withheld) is fighting depression. She is among millions of Afghan women who can no longer work in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan.

Exclusive | Afghan women fear for life as Taliban ban male doctors from treating them

A senior UN official was informed by the Taliban ministers that they will probably sketch new guidelines to permit women in Afghanistan to work in a few humanitarian operations.

Taliban to draw fresh guidelines for allowing Afghan women in aid work, says UN official

At least 158 people have died in Afghanistan's harsh winter, as millions face bitter temperatures with minimal humanitarian aid. Watch this report to know more.

WION Climate Tracker: Extreme cold kills at least 158 people in Afghanistan

The International backlash for its crackdown on women's rights, the Taliban reportedly is planning to giving some concessions. The reports have emerged that the Taliban ministers have told the senior United Nations officials that they plan to draw up new guidelines to allow Afghan women to work in some humanitarian operations.

Taliban may allow women to work in NGOs, says report

Aid workers and volunteers unload a humanitarian train carrying around 500 tonnes of food, clothes, and hygiene products, which arrived from Turkey via Iran. More than half of the country's 38 million people are facing hunger this winter, and nearly four million children are suffering from malnutrition, according to aid agencies.

Watch: Turkish train carrying humanitarian aid arrives in Afghanistan

The United Nations' aid chief visited Kabul on Monday and raised concerns over women's education and work with the Taliban administration's acting minister of foreign affairs, an Afghan ministry statement said.

UN aid chief raises women's rights concerns with Taliban in Afghan capital

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The Cranfield University in the United Kingdom said on Monday that their researchers are helping the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) to develop an artificial intelligence (AI) powered programme that would monitor the crops used for illicit opium production in Afghanistan.

UK university helps UN develop AI programme to monitor Afghanistan’s opium cultivation

The Taliban cut off hands of four men convicted of theft and flogged nine on charges of sodomy in front of spectators at a football stadium in Kandahar. According to Tolo News, the suspects were punished on Tuesday in Ahmad Shahi Stadium.

Taliban cut off hands of four men for theft, flog nine for sodomy before spectators

The Taliban-ruled Afghanistan which is already facing a humanitarian crisis, the country is now facing a fresh blow after a cold wave struck the country.

WION Climate Tracker: Afghanistan hit by a cold wave

The UN's top female official, Amina Mohammad, was sent by United Nations Secretary-General with a team that included Sima Bahous, the director of UN Women, in response to the ban on female aid workers in Afghanistan.

UN's top women officials meet Taliban over ban on female aid workers

According to a report by AFP, at least 70 people have died due to severe cold in Afghanistan amid a wave of freezing temperatures. Since last week, mercury has plunged in Kabul and several other regions, the lowest temperature recorded was -33 degrees Celsius in the country’s central region Ghor.

Afghanistan: 70 die from cold in freezing winter, 140 hospitalised for carbon monoxide poisoning

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