Listen to article ISLAMABAD: With a strong emphasis on institutional reform, employee welfare, and service modernisation, the 35th Board of Directors meeting of the Pakistan Standards and Quality Control Authority (PSQCA) convened in Islamabad under the chairmanship of Federal Minister for Science and Technology Khalid Hussain Magsi. The high-level session brought together key stakeholders to chart a…
Listen to article WASHINGTON/OTTAWA: US President Donald Trump ramped up his tariff assault on Canada on Thursday, saying the US would impose a 35% tariff on imports next month and planned to impose blanket tariffs of 15% or 20% on most other trading partners. In a letter released on his social media platform, Trump told Canadian Prime…
KARACHI: Renowned Urdu scholar, author and translator CM Naim died at age 89 on Wednesday in Chicago, his family has told the press. Naim’s love for Urdu literature was evident in the nearly 60 years he dedicated to painstakingly restore the language he feared was falling out of favour for good in the subcontinent. Born…
KARACHI: Actor and television host Ahsan Khan spoke about the importance of raising daughters with strength and independence. In an interview with FUCHSIA Magazine, Khan shared his perspective as a father and reflected on the different challenges that sons and daughters face while growing up, especially in Pakistan’s cultural context. He began by observing that…
KARACHI: Actor Mariyam Nafees recently opened up about her journey through pregnancy and early motherhood on a local channel’s morning show, appearing alongside her husband, filmmaker Amaan Ahmed. “When I told my mother [I was expecting], the first thing she urged me to do was to not treat it like an illness and just carry…
KARACHI: In the highly anticipated new Superman, which stars David Corenswet in the title role, the Man of Steel first appears lying bloodied and bruised in an Arctic wasteland, reports DW. “We do have a battered Superman in the beginning. That is our country,” director James Gunn said at a press event following the release…
Dutch art detective Arthur Brand, known for recovering stolen masterpieces by artists ranging from Picasso to Van Gogh, has recovered documents from the 15th to 19th centuries, including UNESCO-listed documents relating to the early days of the Dutch East India Company, which were stolen from the National Archives in The Hague in 2015, reported AFP….
KARACHI: Six months. That’s how long it took for the death of Pakistani actor Humaira Asghar to make it to the headlines. Not because no one knew but because no one cared. Her quiet departure from this world, unnoticed and unacknowledged, reflects not just individual tragedy but the profound fractures in the structure of Pakistan’s…
LOS ANGELES: A24 and CMC Pictures are teaming up to bring an English-language version of the globally successful Chinese animated film Ne Zha 2 to theatres in the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand on August 22, the companies said on Wednesday. The animated blockbuster Ne Zha 2 overtook Pixar’s Inside Out 2 in February…
WASHINGTON: Mattel has launched its first Barbie doll with type 1 diabetes in a bid to foster a greater sense of inclusion and empathy among children, a company vice-president said Tuesday. The new Barbie has been designed in partnership with the global type 1 diabetes not-for-profit Breakthrough T1D. “Introducing a Barbie doll with type 1…
