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Peshawar University Announces Winter Holidays

  The University of Peshawar has officially announced its winter vacation schedule for the 2025–26 academic session. According to the notification, the university will remain closed from December 22, 2025, to January 3, 2026. During this period, all academic and administrative offices will be closed. However, the university has emphasized that all scheduled exams and tests will continue as planned, and students are advised to follow the existing academic timetable. University authorities stated that the winter break is part of the seasonal academic calendar and aims to give students and staff adequate time to rest and prepare for the upcoming term. Regular classes and administrative operations will resume on January 3, 2026.

IOC Allows Hijab in Paris 2024 Olympics Athletes' Village Amid French Ban Controversy


 In an improvement that features the complicated crossing point of strict opportunity and secularism, the Global Olympic Panel (IOC) has reported that competitors can wear a hijab without limitation in the Paris 2024 Olympics competitors' town. This choice comes only days after France's Games Clergyman, Amelie Oudea-Castera, prohibited the hijab for French competitors during the Paris Games, referring to standards of secularism.


The IOC's position highlights its obligation to inclusivity and regarding competitors' strict and social convictions. As per an IOC representative, "For the Olympic Town, the IOC rules apply. There are no limitations on wearing the hijab or some other strict or social clothing."


The Olympic Town fills in as transitory lodging for around 10,000 competitors during the Games, where they live in condos and offer collective spaces, including eating lobbies and sporting facilities. The IOC's choice guarantees that competitors of assorted foundations can rehearse their confidence openly while taking part in the Olympic experience.


Nonetheless, it's important that during genuine games contests, the guidelines set by the applicable Global Organizations apply. These alliances administer and manage individual game rivalries at the Olympics, and their guidelines might change.


The contention encompassing the hijab boycott in France has focused on the country's severe type of secularism known as "laicité." President Emmanuel Macron has communicated worry about the apparent danger of Islamism to this rule, prompting the execution of regulations pointed toward defending secularism.


Pundits contend that these regulations have lopsidedly designated Muslims, disintegrated vote-based assurances, and left them helpless against separation and misuse. The Unified Countries basic freedoms office likewise censured France's choice to boycott the hijab for its competitors, adding to the continuous discussion.


Paris is set to have the late Spring Olympics from July 26 to August 11, 2024. As the world enthusiastically anticipates the Games, the conversations encompassing strict opportunity, social variety, and harmony among secularism and individual freedoms will probably keep on being important for the Olympic account.

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