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TopicAstroturf

Topic: Astroturf

Delhi’s Women’s Football League has lawyers, teachers, mothers as players. It’s a safe space

It’s more than just a game — the football ground is a safe space for the women. Now in its third edition, Delhi's Women’s Football League is growing one pass at a time.

A hockey turf in Pakistan ripped off for Imran Khan’s political pitch. Not so sportsmanlike

For Imran Khan's 13 August rally at National Hockey Stadium in Lahore, the astroturf has been removed to accommodate the large crowd. Pakistanis are not happy.

On Camera

Menstrual leave doesn’t work in ‘real world’. And that real world is designed by, for men

When a woman menstruates, when/if she decides to marry, when/if she decides to have kids, should not be factors when looking at a woman’s potential from a hiring standpoint.

US strike on Iran’s key oil export island Kharg raises fears of wider supply disruption

President Trump said the US had bombed military targets on Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, but spared oil infrastructure.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.