I.A. Rehman/Dawn, Pakistan IN addition to the domestic pressures for expeditious completion of its national human rights agenda, the state of Pakistan has to ensure that it keeps fulfilling on time the pledges it made to the international community during the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) a year ago. The UPR provides an opportunity for a…
City Times From veteran actor Amitabh Bachchan to younger talent like Shraddha Kapoor and Abhishek Bachchan – celebrities from the film world on Tuesday wished the legendary Dilip Kumar good health and a long life on his 96th birthday. Dilip Kumar, who is confined to his house due to his frail health, has amassed a…
AFP Morocco will not be a candidate to host the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations after Cameroon was stripped of the tournament, the country’s sports minister Rachid Talbi Alami said on Wednesday, while Egypt expressed an interest in hosting the finals. “Morocco does not intend to run for the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations and…
At least two Israelis have been killed and two injured in a shooting in the occupied West Bank, after Israeli forces killed three Palestinians in separate operations overnight on Wednesday. Eli Bin, the head of Israel’s Magen David Adom emergency services, confirmed to Israeli Army Radio that two people were killed in the shooting. Their…
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Hossen Sohel of DOT Chief Election Commissioner KM Nurul Huda has instructed lawmen to curb violence arising in the country ahead of the upcoming general elections, reports The Daily Star. Referring the recent spate of incidents and fatalities taking place, the CEC instructed lawmen to avert similar incidents from taking place in the future. …
NDTV In a strange incident, a mountain lion got itself trapped inside a chicken coop in Yucca County, California. The San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Office said deputies from the Morongo Basin Sheriff’s Station responded Monday night to report of a mountain lion trapped inside a homeowner’s chicken coop. “Monday 10th, 2018, at 10:16 p.m., deputies…
A 49-year-old man died after setting himself on fire near the venue of BJP leader CK Padmanabhan’s sit-down protest, against what he described as the Kerala government’s anti-Sabarimala stand, in Thiruvananthapuram early on Thursday. The man, who was later identified as Venugopalan Nair, suffered 60% burns and was rushed to the Government Medical College hospital,…
Science Alert NASA’s InSight lander has taken its first selfie on Mars. The selfie, released on Tuesday and shown above, is made up of 11 images that were stitched together. The resulting photo shows InSight’s solar panels and deck, along with the scientific instruments on top of the deck and the lander’s weather sensor. InSight…
NDTV A man in Abu Dhabi has been fined 20,000 dirhams and sentenced to 60 days in jail for calling his fiancee ‘idiot’ over a WhatsApp message. According to Khaleej Times, the unnamed man sent his fiancee a message and referred to her as an idiot (habla in Arabic). Though he claims he used the…