Indian actress Kani Kusruti won the IMDb STARmeter Award for “Breakout Star,” besting her critically acclaimed roles in Cannes-winning “All We Imagine as Light” and Sundance-winning “Girls Will Be Girls.” The laurels, determined by IMDb’s monthly traffic of over 250 million visitors worldwide, indicate Kusruti’s meteoric rise on the platform’s popular Indian celebrity chart – … Read more
Zoe Saldana will receive the Derek Malcolm Innovation Award at the 45th London Film Critics Circle Awards. Actress Emilia Perez becomes the second winner of the award, after Colman Domingo won the inaugural award last year. The honor comes as Saldana is also competing in this year’s supporting actress category for Jacques Audiard’s musical drama … Read more
Special report ISLAMABAD: Emphasizing the crucial role of journalists during one of the most turbulent periods in modern history, Mubasher Naqvi, a distinguished writer and researcher, successfully defended his doctoral thesis, titled “Effects of COVID-19 on Journalists’ Performative Capabilities and Their Counter Strategies during the Pandemic in Pakistan.”This groundbreaking study delves into the unique challenges … Read more
Dubai (United Arab Emirates): Justice Dr Syed Muhammad Anwar of the Federal Sharia Court received the 2024 Cambridge Lifetime Achievement Award for authoring the ruling on the prohibition of usury, here at a ceremony held on Tuesday. Previous articleThailand and Malaysia were devastated … Read more
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) on Tuesday signed a $500 million loan agreement for the Climate and Disaster Resilience Enhancement Program (CDREP) to strengthen the country’s resilience in the face of disasters caused by natural hazards and the impacts of environmental crises. The program aims to strengthen Pakistan’s institutional capacity for planning, … Read more
Agritech Limited has received a revised public offer from Fauji Fertilizer Company Limited (FFC) to acquire up to 151,052,013 ordinary shares, with the offer price increasing from Rs 38.84 to Rs 39.05 per share, the company announced in a share filing on Tuesday. The revised offer, which aims to secure approximately 35.57% of AGL’s total … Read more
Pakistan’s IT industry receives huge turnout at GITEX Global 2024, Dubai Farzana Mansour Dubai (United Arab Emirates): Ambassador Faisal Niaz Tarmizi, Pakistan’s envoy to the UAE, chaired a meeting on Thursday at the Dubai World Trade Center to review the performance of Pakistani exhibitors participating in GITEX Global 2024. The IT sector has received significant … Read more
KARACHI: The Russian Center for Science and Culture recognized the life-changing achievements of teachers on International Teachers’ Day on October 5, 2024 and presented an award of appreciation to Prof. Dr. Samina Riaz (right), a senior professor at Bahria University Karachi. The award was presented by Ruslan Prokhorov (left), Director of the Russian Center for … Read more