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Graduating students of color at Harvard University and other colleges across the country would end their semester by attending affinity graduation ceremonies — but this year, they had to organize these celebrations without the school’s financial backing. Harvard, currently battling the Trump administration over a range of issues, halted all of its affinity ceremonies for…
Kajol turned heads at the trailer launch of her horror film Maa in a stunning black saree. [title_words_as_hashtags
The expectant second-time parents revealed their first child was named ‘Carter’ Beyoncé just made a major moment even more unforgettable for one lucky couple. During the fourth night of her Cowboy Carter Tour stop at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey on May 28, the 43-year-old superstar paused the show to help a fan reveal the…
A trader drinks tea along an alley in a market in Rawalpindi. — AFP/File Inflation in Pakistan is projected to drop sharply in May, hovering between 1.5% and 2% on an annual basis before rebounding to 3%–4% in June, the Ministry of Finance said in its monthly economic outlook on Thursday. Pakistan’s average inflation in…
Rest assured, anxious fans, Mawra Hocane has no plans of getting rid of her long hair. She confirmed the news, which might come as a relief to some, in a recent Instagram Story: “Clearly never getting a bob cut.” It seems it was a lighthearted prank on the Jafaa actor’s part when she teased fans…
NAIROBI: During his imprisonment, Kenyan author Ngugi wa Thiong’o decided he would never write in English again, a defiant move that helped put literature in African languages firmly on the map. Ngugi died at the age of 87 on Wednesday, his daughter announced on Facebook. “It is with a heavy heart that we announce the…
“When someone comes out of an attack like this, in a war like this, what do you expect a kid to feel?” Eyad al-Sheikh Khalil said to Al Jazeera, after his six-year-old niece emerged from the flames of a school fire, seemingly unscathed yet mentally charred, knowing that the rest of her family wasn’t so…
Jenna Ortega might have conquered Netflix, but she didn’t come out of Wednesday unscathed. In a refreshingly candid interview with Harper’s Bazaar, Ortega revealed that the massive success of her gothic teen character left her more disoriented than delighted. “To be quite frank, after the show and trying to figure everything out, I was an…
Veteran actor Hina Bayat weighed in on the controversy surrounding Indian poet and lyricist Javed Akhtar, whose recent remarks against Pakistan have sparked outrage across the border. Speaking on a local television show on Wednesday, Bayat criticised Akhtar’s “hateful” comments, suggesting that his words were less about conviction and more about performance. “I think he…
NEW YORK: Internet giants are diving deeper into e-commerce with digital aides that know shoppers’ likes, let them virtually try clothes on, hunt for deals and even place orders. The rise of virtual personal shoppers springs from generative artificial intelligence (AI) being put to work in “agents” specialising in specific tasks and given autonomy to…
