Hundreds of schools were ordered to close indefinitely in Kashmir Wednesday after shelling by Indian and Pakistani troops in the disputed region killed 14 civilians in two days.
Armed men have burned down a girls' school in northern Afghanistan, officials said Saturday, with police blaming the Taliban for the assault as the militants expand their foothold across the country.
Some 60 schools and universities in eastern Canada were evacuated Wednesday over a series of bomb threats, including one received by police, that appeared to have been bogus.
Gunmen abducted an American teacher on Tuesday from an English language school in Sanaa, capital of wartorn Yemen, witnesses said, in the latest of a series of kidnappings of foreigners.
Some parts of Doha witnessed heavy traffic on Sunday as thousands of children returned to school, but many motorists said they did not face much difficulty in general as the situation was “well under control”.
An Indian court Monday sentenced a school principal to 17 years in jail over the death of 23 pupils who were served a free meal laced with pesticide, a prosecutor said.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon condemned an air strike on a school in northern Yemen that killed 10 children and called for an investigation, while the Saudi-led coalition said the attack had targeted a training facility run by the Houthi group.
Saudi-led air strikes on a school in a rebel-held province of Yemen have killed 10 children, aid agencies said on Sunday, prompting fresh concerns over civilian casualties in the 17-month war.
The family of a Muslim teen arrested for taking a homemade clock to school -- only to have it mistaken for a fake bomb -- filed a lawsuit on Monday claiming his civil rights were violated.
Qatar has been ranked among the 'top 10 Asian economies' in the ‘Online Service Index’ of the biannual E-Government Development Index (EGDI) released recently...
The Sri Lankan embassy here is keen on supporting an expansion project for the Stafford Sri Lankan School Doha (SSLSD), ambassador WM Karunadasa has said.
Qatar Petrochemical Company (Qapco) has supported the graduation ceremony of Omar Bin Al Khattab Independent Secondary School for Boys, for the 16th batch of students.
