Sobia Nazir: Elevate your Style with Timeless Elegance and Modern Glamour

The brand that was launched back in 1995, Sobia Nazir is one of Pakistan’s leading brands that provide multiple ranges of affordable designer fashion for women. It is a diverse fashion brand with a wide variety of fabrics, designs, and styles. Providing glamour with comfort, Sobia Nazir comes up with avant-garde ideas every season. The brand collaborated with different media influencers and celebrities to spread the collection in all the trendy areas.

Sobia Nazir is known for its unique blend of traditional and modern elegance, offering high-quality designer fashion with innovative designs at an affordable price point. The brand’s specialty lies in its ability to showcase a diverse range of fabrics, patterns, and styles, creating a fashion experience that balances glam…

Essential Tips for Selecting the Best Lighting for Your Inground Swimming Pool

An inground swimming pool is much more than a watershed or a cool rocking place; it is an additional room in your home, a private place of recreation and leisure. However, this does not have to be limited to daytime only. When appropriately lit, a pool can turn into a stunning night haven for any homeowner. So, let’s submerge ourselves in the pool lighting world and see how interesting it is to light the nights.

Check these elegant inground swimming pool ideas and inspirations for different concepts.

Bright Lighting in Swimming Pool Environment

There are several reasons why you want your pool lit. Sure, it looks great. However, the list continues.

Safety

Swimming s…

Victoria Secret Karen Lawsuit Update: The Complex Legal Battle and Social Media’s Impact

Victoria Secret Karen Lawsuit Update- In July 2021, a viral video captured a dramatic confrontation at a Victoria’s Secret store in Short Hills Mall, New Jersey. The incident involved two women, Ijeoma Ukenta, a Black woman, and Abigail Elphick, a white woman, and quickly gained widespread attention due to the racial dynamics and social tensions it represented. Dubbed the “Victoria’s Secret Karen” incident, the encounter sparked heated discussions on social media platforms, legal debates, and further escalated into a lawsuit.

The lawsuit, referred to as the Victoria Secret Karen lawsuit update, has raised critical questions about racial bias, the portrayal of incidents in social media, and the complexities of legal action. As the case has progressed, m…

ENVIRONMENT-BRAZIL: Eye on Urban Water Pollution

Mario Osava* – IPS/IFEJ

RIO DE JANEIRO, Oct 31 2006 (IPS) – Around 30 million people are affected by water contamination in Brazil s two biggest metropolitan areas. In Sao Paulo, this means water shortages. In Rio de Janeiro, the water supply itself is not diminished, but pollution threatens to make it useless for human consumption.
As a result, these two heavily populated areas live under the threat of periodic shutdowns of their water networks.

For the 18.5 million people who live in the Sao Paulo metropolitan region, it s a time bomb that could explode any moment, says Maria Luisa Ribeiro, coordinator of the Waters Network, an initiative of the local environmental group SOS Mata Atlantica Foundation to promote communication and social participation in national wate…

HEALTH-AFRICA: If Men Were Dying En Masse…

Miriam Mannak

CAPE TOWN, Oct 5 2009 (IPS) – Maternal mortality rates in Africa constitute a monumental tragedy that requires urgent attention by African governments, health experts say.
More than 250,000 women die in childbirth in Africa each year; many more suffer serious injury. This 20-year-old Nigerian woman developed obstetric fistula after six days of labour. Credit: Dr. Gloria Esegbona/UNFPA

More than 250,000 women die in childbirth in Afric…

ZAMBIA: Parents’ Fears Slowing Uptake of Paediatric AIDS Treatment

LUSAKA, Jul 6 2010 (IPS) – Diana Banda* is quickly running out of excuses to give her six-year-old son about why he has to take a schedule of drugs every day.
Her son David* is HIV-positive and has been on anti-retroviral treatment (ART) for two years. But he may not learn the truth about his HIV status anytime soon as his mother thinks up one excuse after another as to why he has to religiously take the drugs.

He asks me almost every day why he has to take these same drugs all the time. At first, I told him that he had a persistent headache but when I went away for a week, he skipped (the medication) for two days and then protested that he had had no headache, said Banda, a housewife in the Zambian capital, Lusaka.

So as a family, we have now had to convince him …

No Social Protection for India’s Elderly

Aged women sitting in front of an old age home in Kanyakumari district in Tamil Nadu. Credit: K. S. Harikrishnan/IPS

NEW/DELHI/THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, Nov 9 2012 (IPS) – At midnight on Oct. 12, 91-year-old George Puthenveettil, a widower living in Kalanjur village in the Pathanamthita district of the southern Indian state of Kerala, was brutally tortured and ousted from his own house by his only son for “not earning any money”.

The nonagenarian wandered the streets of his village for hours before he reached a shelter in Pathanapuram with the help of neighbours. Police said the son had often beaten and harassed the old man, who was financially dependent on his s…

Despite Two Bans, Styrofoam Trash Still Plagues Haiti

Styrofoam containers in one of the many drainage canals in the Port-au-Prince metropolitan area. Most dump into the Caribbean Sea after passing through poor neighbourhoods, like this one in Cité Soleil, where the human and animal fecal matter, styrofoam, and other trash regularly flood the zone after heavy rains. Credit: HGW/Marc Schindler Saint-Val

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Aug 16 2013 – Despite two government decrees making their import and usage illegal, styrofoam cups and plates are used and littered all over the capital, as well as bought and sold, wholesale and retail, completely out in the open.

The first decree, dated Aug. 9, 2012, went into effect on Oct. 1, 2012, …

Greater Skills Equals Greater Ability to Combat Leprosy

Dr Ken Jetton (left) and Dr Arturo Cunanan (centre) with a patient who has been cured of leprosy in the Majuro leprosy clinic in the capital of the Marshall Islands. The patient is now seeking further help due to post-treatment complexities. Credit: Stella Paul/IPS

MAJURO, Apr 4 2019 (IPS) – It’s a Friday morning and Dr. Ken Jetton, the only doctor who treats leprosy in Majuro, the capital of the Marshall Islands, is seeing a patient recently cured of the disease.
David, 32, has received multidrug therapy (MDT) treatment for a year already. But he is back in the doctor’s office because of a reversal reaction that has occurred.
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Extent of Violence Against Women During Pandemic Exposed

Violence Against Women During Pandemic: Parliamentarians from Africa and Asia met to discuss how to improve the conditions of women, girls, and youth during pandemics. Credit: APDA

Parliamentarians from Africa and Asia met to discuss how to improve the conditions of women, girls, and youth during pandemics. Credit: APDA

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, Mar 11 2021 (IPS) – COVID-19 restrictions exposed women and girls to heightened abuse – revealing the conditions in which gender-based violence became the shadow pandemic on the continent, a recent webinar attended by parliamentarians from Africa and Asia heard.

Gift Malunga, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) country repres…