Culture

PESHAWAR, April 17: The students of government primary schools in Chitral will learn primers of Khowar, their mother tongue, in the ongoing academic year which started this month. The provincial Elementary and Secondary Education (E&SE) Department has introduced four regional languages – Hindko, Seraiki, Khowar and Kohistani – as compulsory subject in educational institutions from

LONDON, April 10: Robert Edwards, a British Nobel prize-winning scientist known as the father of IVF for pioneering the development of “test tube babies”, died on Wednesday aged 87 after a long illness, his university said. Edwards, who won the Nobel for medicine in 2010, started work on developing in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) in the 1950s,

LONDON, April 8: Baroness Thatcher, Britain\’s greatest post-war prime minister, has died at the age of 87 after suffering a stroke, her family has announced. Her son, Sir Mark, and daughter Carol confirmed that she died this morning. Lord Bell, her spokesman, said: \”It is with great sadness that Mark and Carol Thatcher announced that

LONDON, April 5: Angelina Jolie has honoured Pakistani schoolgirl activist Malala Yousafzai, who has launched a charity to fund girls\’ education. A fund set up by Malala Yousafzai, who was shot by the Taliban for campaigning for girls\’ education, is to send 40 girls to school in her home region with the support of US

Islamic extremists have infiltrated and attacked the city of Gao in northern Mali, the mayor and residents said. It was the third major attack on the town since it was liberated by French forces in January. The assault indicates the radical Islamists remain entrenched and able to attack despite the thousands of French troops who