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Sajal Aly and Ahad Raza Mir parting ways?

Sajal Aly

Our famous couples’ craze is nothing new, but Pakistan’s power couple Sajal Aly and Ahad Raza Mir have the ability to send the internet into a frenzy with their beautiful chemistry. However, because the pair has not been seen together in a long time, rumours about their split have been circulating on the internet. There … Read more

Arjun Kapoor claps back at trolls for targeting his age gap with Malaika Arora

Malaika Arora praises her boyfriend Arjun Kapoor for completing 10 years in Bollywood 

Lovebirds Arjun Kapoor and Malaika Arora are one of the most popular couples in the B-Town. They sparked dating rumours after the fitness diva got divorced from her husband Arbaaz Khan. Both Arjun and Malaika grabbed eyeballs after they opened up about their relationship in the year 2019 and never shy away from speaking about each … Read more

Sri Lanka reports Omicron case number at 48

Omicron

COLOMBO, Jan. 3 (Xinhua) — Sri Lanka’s health ministry said on Monday that the country has so far registered 48 infections of the Omicron variant of COVID-19. Anwar Hamdani, the COVID-19 coordinator and director of technical services of the Ministry of Health, was quoted by the local Daily Mirror as saying that the Omicron infected … Read more

Supernet believes time is ripe for tech IPO

Supernet

KARACHI: Supernet, a subsidiary of Telecard Limited, up for an initial public offering, is targeting to serve national, as well as international cyber-security needs. With the increase in digitalisation and automation, the demand for IT infrastructure and cyber-security challenges have increased manifold. Globally the year 2020 broke all records when it came to data lost … Read more

Urfi Javed Gets Brutally Trolled For Latest Dress Choice

Urfi Javed

Urfi Javed, a Bigg Boss contestant, is often in the spotlight for her fashion choices. Her wardrobe choices are once again capturing all of the attention on social media. The actor was seen on Sunday sporting a peculiar black dress with unusual cutouts at the front. When she went out for lunch in Mumbai, she … Read more

Pakistan reports 708 new COVID-19 cases

Pakistan

ISLAMABAD, Jan. 3 (Xinhua) — Pakistan on Sunday reported 708 new COVID-19 cases, with infections continued to increase in its southern Sindh province, the National Command and Operation Center (NCOC) said on Monday. Local media, quoting an official from the Ministry of National Health Services, Regulations and Coordination, reported that a high increase in COVID-19 … Read more

Jamie Dornan shares impact of working in ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’

Jamie Dornan Fifty shades of Grey impact

Hollywood actor Jamie Dornan, popularly known as Christian Grey, opened up about how he was fortunate enough to not be typecasted after his character in Fifty Shades of Grey. “At the time, I was asked if I was scared of being typecast – as what? As a BDSM-loving billionaire? I think that’s a one-off,” the … Read more

PHOTOS: Priyanka Chopra and Nick Jonas celebrating New Year on a Yatch

Priyanka Chopra

Priyanka Chopra just shared an Instagram photo from her New Year’s Eve celebrations with husband Nick Jonas. The actress appears to have started 2022 with a vacation, as she is seen cuddling up with husband Nick Jonas in a stunning photo taken from a yacht. Priyanka also expressed her gratitude for her friends and family … Read more

China’s services industry a new magnet for foreign investment

FDI

BEIJING: Foreign direct investment (FDI) into the Chinese mainland, in actual use, topped the 1-trillion-yuan ($156.85 billion) mark in the first 11 months of 2021, surpassing the whole-year FDI in 2020 and affirming China’s continued dominance as the top investment destination globally. Notably, FDI into the services industry accounted for about 80 per cent of … Read more

US air travel still messy, with another 2,600 flights scrapped

Americans

WASHINGTON: Americans returning home from holiday travel had to battle another day of airport chaos Sunday, with more than 2,600 flights cancelled due to bad weather or airline staffing woes sparked by a surge in Covid cases. Further disruptions are predicted for Monday, as a winter storm blows eastward. As of 10:00pm (0300 GMT Monday), more … Read more

South Korean automakers’ global car sale rises 2.5% in 2021

South Korean

SEOUL: South Korean automakers’ global car sale rose last year, owing to export growth that offset weak domestic demand, industry data showed on Monday. The number of vehicles, sold globally by five local automakers that include Hyundai, Kia, GM Korea, Renault Samsung and Ssangyong, was 7.12 million in 2021, up 2.5 per cent from the … Read more

Netflix surprise fans with the first look of The Umbrella Academy season 3

Netflix is not holding back, one after the other they are releasing new episodes of the most loved series for their fans. This time too, Netflix surprised the fans of The Umbrella Academy. They unveiled the first-look posters for the superheroes’ show’s much-anticipated third season. Read more: Red Notice Becomes Most-Watched Film on Netflix, Gal … Read more

Markets get 2022 off to largely positive start in thinned trade

Markets

HONG KONG: The New Year got off to a broadly upbeat start Monday in holiday-thinned trade as most markets rose, with some cheer provided by data suggesting regional economies improved last month. However, investors remain shackled by concerns about a range of issues including the fast-spreading Omicron variant, inflation, the removal of central bank stimulus and … Read more

Instagram Recap: TOP 10 Hot and Sizzling Pictures of Ayesha Omar

Ayesha Omar

Ayesha Omar the charming actress from Pakistan is nothing less than being the epitome of beauty. Her gorgeous pictures often win hearts of her fans on social media.  Ayesha Omar has been in the gossip for her dressing and dance moves which immediately catches the eye of netizens and it gets viral. Ayesha surely knows … Read more

Root to assess future after Ashes as Stokes says no wish to be captain

Root

SYDNEY: Joe Root said Monday that he has “questions to answer” and will assess his future as England captain after the losing Ashes tour, as Ben Stokes insisted he has no ambition to take over. Root will become his country’s longest-serving Test skipper at the fourth Test in Sydney on Wednesday, surpassing predecessor Alastair Cook’s 59 matches in … Read more

Spain shrug off Nadal absence to beat Norway at ATP Cup

Spain

SYDNEY: Veteran Roberto Bautista Agut upset world number eight Casper Ruud on Monday to give Spain their second straight win at the ATP Cup, a record matched by Hubert Hurkacz’s Poland. The 33-year-old Bautista Agut is the lead singles player for his country in the absence of 20-time Grand Slam champion Rafael Nadal and has stepped up … Read more

Flying Cement 12MW captive power plant starts operations

Flying Cement

KARACHI: The 12MW captive power plant of Flying Cement Company Limited has started commercial operations at its site in Khushab district, a bourse filing said on Monday. This is a significant milestone achieved by the company in line with its strategic objectives of cost rationalisation and optimisation resulting in lower dependency on Water and Power Development … Read more

Beijing Olympic venues – Bird’s Nest, Ice Ribbon and bullet trains

Beijing

BEIJING: The Beijing Winter Olympics will be spread over three zones and merge new venues with existing ones from the 2008 Games, including the “Bird’s Nest” stadium. With one month to go, AFP Sport looks at where the Olympics will take place: Beijing The 80,000-seater “Bird’s Nest” National Stadium — whose cross-hatched steel girders produce a nest-like … Read more

Octopus Digital get a contract of $1 million

Octopus

KARACHI: Octopus Digital, a digital arm of the Avanceon Group of Companies’, will set up and maintain the industrial data centre infrastructure for one of the largest fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) corporations in Pakistan, a bourse filing said. This contract execution gives a pathway for positive impact on the group’s business and value for its shareholders, it … Read more

Ekta Kapoor tests positive for Covid-19; Celebs send her tons of ‘love & wishes’

Ekta Kapoor COVID

Bollywood film and television producer Ekta Kapoor has on Monday announced her COVID-19 diagnosis. Taking to Instagram, she shared a post about testing positive for COVID-19 and wrote, “Despite taking all precautions I have tested positive covid positive. I am fine and I request everyone who has come in contact with me to please test … Read more

Ukraine’s cultural minister enraged by the offensive caricature in Emily in Paris

After France, Ukraine too expressed their anger at the light-hearted show, ‘Emily in Paris.’ Oleksandr Tkachenko, Ukraine’s cultural minister, has spoken out about the “offensive caricature” shown in the series about his fellow people. This remark was made by Tkachenko during an interview. He said, “Ukrainian men were mostly represented as gangsters in the 1990s … Read more

Boycotts, Covid and controversy as Beijing Olympics count down

Beijing

BEIJING: The Beijing Winter Olympics begin one month on Tuesday with diplomatic boycotts, the coronavirus and the fate of Peng Shuai all hanging heavy over the Games. The Chinese capital on February 4-20 will become the first host of a Winter and Summer Olympics, having staged the Games in 2008, seen then as a coming-out party for … Read more

Industries facing huge losses due to gas supply shortage

SME

KARACHI: The Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) industries are in turmoil as the gas supply situation is worsening, resulting in production loss, an official said on Monday. The Union of Small and Medium Enterprises (Unisame) president Zulfikar Thaver invited the attention of the government to the worsening of the gas supply situation to the industries, … Read more

Pervez Khattak claims PTI still the most popular party in K-P

Despite the defeat in the first phase of local government (LG) elections in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), Defence Minister Pervez Khattak claims Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) is still the most popular party in the province and largest in the country. Addressing the tehsil convention of PTI in Nowshera on Monday, the minister said KP is still a … Read more

Man City’s ‘title to lose’ after Chelsea, Liverpool fall on their swords

manchester

MANCHESTER: Even after a weekend in which Manchester City produced the worst performance of the Premier League’s top four, the champions streaked further clear towards a fourth title in five years. City manager Pep Guardiola admitted his side were second best despite coming from behind to beat 10-man Arsenal 2-1 with a 93rd minute winner … Read more

VIRAL: Disha Patani’s sea nymph look turns up the heat

Disha Patani

Actress Disha Patani, who was reportedly on vacation to the Maldives with rumoured beau Tiger Shroff, has turned up the heat many times with her stunning beachside clicks. This time, she slipped into a pink bikini and enjoyed a relaxing sunny day, submerging in the sparkling blue water. Within an hour, Disha Patani’s photos went … Read more

First week of 2022 becomes of high importance for Prince Andrew

This week seems to be of high importance for the British Prince and the second born of Queen Elizabeth II. Prince Andrew is going through a sexual assault case filed by the long-time accuser and ex-financier Jeffrey Epstein. Followed by Prince Andrew’s onetime partner Ghislaine Maxwell. Read more: The Royal staff is not ready to … Read more

Third Hong Kong news company shutters as media fears grow

Hong Kong

HONG KONG: Journalists from Hong Kong’s CitizenNews decried plummeting press freedoms as they shut down Monday, saying they no longer felt safe to publish after a rival outlet’s staff were arrested for ‘sedition’. One of the most popular online news outlets in Hong Kong with more than 800,000 social media followers, CitizenNews is the third media outlet to shutter as … Read more