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Kavitha leads hunger strike over Women's Reservation Bill

A day before her scheduled appearance before the Enforcement Directorate in the Delhi excise policy case, Bharat Rashtra Samiti leader K Kavitha led a hunger strike here on Friday seeking the......

JK top cop admits to arrested Lashkar terrorist's links to BJP

Lashkar-e-Tayiba (LeT) terrorist Talib Hussain Shah was briefly associated with a political party and also posed himself as a media-person, Jammu and Kashmir Director General of Police (DGP) Dilbag......

Pak PM tests negative for COVID-19; cases cross 10,000 mark

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan was tested negative for the novel coronavirus on Wednesday, his aide said, as the number of the COVID-29 cases crossed 10,000 in the country. Khan, 67, agreed......

Coronavirus cases rise to 212 in Pakistan

The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Pakistan sharply rose to 212 on Tuesday, amidst conflicting statements by authorities on the nation's first casualty due to the viral infection. IMAGE:......

Pervez Musharraf sentenced to death in high treason case

Pakistan's former dictator General Pervez Musharraf was on Tuesday sentenced to death in absentia in the high treason case for subverting the Constitution in 2007, drawing a sharp reaction from the......

MFN status for India by Oct: Pakistan

Pakistan could grant the Most Favoured Nation status to India by October next year, a senior official of the Foreign Ministry said.Foreign Office spokesman Abdul Basit said "October next year is......

Pak's U-turn on MFN: Status NOT granted to India, says Gilani

Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has made it clear that Pakistan has not granted the Most Favoured Nation status to India, saying the commerce ministry has only been tasked to move forward on the......

MFN status to India: Pak govt issues confusing statements

Hours after announcing that it would grant the much-delayed MFN status to India, Pakistan government issued several confusing statements which made no direct mention of the significant step aimed......

Pakistan grants MFN status to India

After dilly-dallying for several years, Pakistan on Tuesday granted the Most Favoured Nation status to India in a significant step in improving bilateral ties and boosting two-way trade currently......

Zoya Afroz Wants To Tell You A Kashmir Story

The cool temperatures of Kashmir got hotter as the gorgeous Zoya Afroz came down to the Valley to shoot a film. The Miss India International 2021 is known for Web series like Matsya Kaand and......

What is Kajol's niece doing in the movies?

'I am not someone special.''I don't want to be shortlisted for a role just because I belong to the family I do.' Photograph: Kind courtesy Pranutan Bahl/Instagram An apple does not fall far from......

What goes on in a terrorist's mind

Armed with mostly positive reviews, the disturbing, thought-provoking film The War Within, about a Pakistani suicide bomber who sets out to blow up Grand Central station in New York, is expanding......

Sympathy for the terrorist

Like most New Yorkers, the events of September 11, 2001, left Ayad Akhtar shocked. For a Pakistani American born and raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, his immediate reaction was of horror and terror.......

Amu rocks Toronto, Ash doesn't

When Shonali Bose set out to make a film with the backdrop of the massacreof Sikhs following then prime minister Indira Gandhi's assassination in 1984, there was no shortage of peopleasking her to......

Fixing charges levelled against Pak cricket team

A petition has been filed in the Lahore High Court (LHC) against the Pakistan cricket team on charges of match-fixing in the ICC World Cup 2011 semi-final match against India. The petitioner, Azhar......

Pak delegates to attend Shoaib-Sania wedding

Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has decided to send a parliamentary delegation to attend the much-hyped cross-border wedding of tennis star Sania Mirza and cricketer Shoaib Malik. The......

Waqar sad over Shoaib's marriage controversy

Pakistan coach Waqar Younis described the whole drama surrounding Shoaib Malik's alleged marriage to Ayesha Siddiqui as "sad" and "depressing" amid an outpouring of support for the former captain.......

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