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Taking responsibility of girl child ‘discomforting’ for society, families Says rights activist Sultana Kamal Staff Correspondent Staff Correspondent Both society and families feel "discomfort" in taking responsibility of a girl child as soon as she is born, eminent rights activist Sultana Kamal has said.  "A great revelation of this discomfort is child marriage," she said while addressing a virtual roundtable on "Strengthened Civil Society Protec...

It’s easier to make promises in opposition than it is to implement them in government. Sinn Fein is seeking to broaden its electoral base to appeal more to the middle and aspiring middle classes, the very people that send their children to fee-paying schools in Dublin where most are located. The party has softened some of its more extreme tax proposals in recent years to win over that vote. It risks alienating the parents of the 25,000-plus pupils in fee-paying schools because of a point of p...