Animated "Arjun" is not a children’s film
May 24th
MUMBAI: Director Arnab Chaudhuri is quick to point out that his new animation project on a Mahabharat hero is not a children’s film. “Arjun – The Warrior Prince” puts the spotlight on the third of the Pandava brothers in Indian mythology and is the coming-of-age story of the legendary archer. “It’s a hero’s journey
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Loading ...Iran talks with world powers hit snag over sanctions
May 24th
BAGHDAD: Iran accused world powers on Wednesday of creating “a difficult atmosphere” that hindered talks on its atomic energy programme, signalling a snag in diplomacy to defuse fears of a covert Iranian bid to develop nuclear bombs. The nub of the dispute was not immediately clear as the Baghdad talks entered a second day
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...U.S. should respect decision to imprison doctor who helped CIA find bin Laden – పాకిస్తాన్
May 24th
ISLAMABAD: The United States should respect a Pakistan court’s decision to imprison a doctor accused of helping the CIA find Osama bin Laden, the Pakistan foreign ministry spokesman said on Thursday. “I think as far as the case of Mr. Afridi is concerned, it was in accordance with Pakistani laws and by the Pakistani courts, and we need to respect each other’s legal processes,” Moazzam Ali Khan told reporters.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...U.S. missile strike kills 10 in northwest Pakistan – officials
May 24th
MIRANSHAH: A U.S. drone strike on suspected Islamist militants in northwest Pakistan killed 10 people on Thursday, Pakistani intelligence officials said, an attack likely to raise tensions in a standoff with Washington over NATO supply routes to Afghanistan. The pilotless drone aircraft attacked a compound in a village in North Waziristan, a day after a similar attack killed four suspected militants in the same region
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Pakistan seeks face-saving formula in NATO talks
May 24th
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan is unlikely to re-open supply routes to NATO troops in Afghanistan unless the United States offers a politically acceptable formula in talks on ending a six-month standoff on the issue, a Pakistani official said on Thursday. The official said the ruling Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) had to be politically savvy, taking into account widespread anti-American sentiment in the country ahead of general elections due by early next year. “It is not fair for any country to expect any decisions that could be politically harmful ahead of elections,” the official, who is familiar with the negotiations, told Reuters on condition of anonymity.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Cannes style flourishes despite soggy red carpet
May 24th
PARIS: With respected French designer Jean Paul Gaultier a member of the Cannes jury this year, celebrities at the swanky film festival on the French Riviera knew they had to step up their fashion game. They did not disappoint
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...England’s Pietersen fined for Twitter comments
May 24th
LONDON: England batsman Kevin Pietersen was fined an undisclosed amount by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) on Wednesday for disparaging comments he made on Twitter about a television pundit.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Mountain lion wanders into California city center, is killed
May 24th
LOS ANGELES: A mountain lion ventured into the center of a crowded Southern California city on Tuesday, and was shot and killed when authorities had trouble corralling the animal in the courtyard of a building, police said.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Indian govt’s Friday meet on diesel prices in doubt: official
May 24th
NEW DEHLI: A planned meeting by a committee of ministers to discuss raising diesel and other fuel prices may not happen following widespread protests and political backlash to a petrol price rise, a finance ministry official said on Thursday. “It is doubtful whether there will be meeting because there is so much political reaction to the hike in petrol prices,” the official, who declined to be identified, told Reuters.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...UN panel blames Syria army for most abuses
May 24th
DAMASCUS: A UN panel said Thursday the army was to blame for most rights abuses in the latest violence that has swept Syria, as a watchdog reported renewed military shelling of a rebel bastion. Syria’s main opposition bloc began searching for a new leader after Paris-based academic Burhan Ghalioun formally resigned, meanwhile, as the regime said parliament convened for the first time since elections. In Geneva, the UN-apppointed Commission of Inquiry on Syria said the army and security forces were responsible for the majority of the serious abuses committed since March this year as they hunt down defectors and opponents
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Report from defense ministry summoned in Musharraf Attack Case
May 24th
Staff Report ISLAMABAD – The Supreme Court (SC) has summoned a report from the defense ministry after two accused involved in the Musharraf Attack Case appealed here on Thursday. A three member bench, chaired by Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry heard the case hearing. During the hearing, the court directed to present the record of military courts’ decisions.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Beirut shootout leaves two dead, six injured
May 24th
BEIRUT: Lebanese security forces stormed a building in the capital Beirut early Thursday following a shootout during the night with a man holed up inside a flat, an AFP correspondent at the site said. The gunman was killed and the body of another man was found inside the flat located on the sixth floor of a building in west Beirut’s Karakass district, a security official told AFP on condition of anonymity. The spark for the shootout appears to have been a personal dispute between at least one of the men and a woman in her early 20s.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Liaqat Baloch supports Ch. Nisar’s suggested names for CEC
May 24th
Staff Report ISLAMABAD: Secretary General Jamaat-e-Islami, Liaqat Baloch has supported three names for the chief election commissioner suggested by Chaudhry Nisar, SAMAA reported Thursday. While talking with media here Baloch said that Nisar telephoned him and suggested three names, i.e Fakhruddin J. Ibrahim, Nasir Aslam Zahid and Shakirullah Jan.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Actress Nicole Kidman makes it up in steamy Cannes contender
May 24th
CANNES: Nicole Kidman sizzles as a small-town vamp drawn to a convicted murderer in Lee Daniels’ “The Paperboy”, marking the US director’s return to Cannes Thursday after his harrowing hit “Precious”. The steamy new picture, set partly in Florida’s humid swamps, features a bleached-blonde Kidman as Charlotte, an “oversexed Barbie doll” who carries on correspondence with dozens of prison inmates in the late 1960s.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Govt cannot hire incompetent person as institutions head: SC
May 24th
Staff Report ISLAMABAD: Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Iftikhar Muhammed Chaudhry, while expressing indignation over Secretary Commerce, saying attempts are made here to attach a price tag on everyone; but, it should be borne in mind that every person is not a commodity on sale.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Azlan Shah hockey cup: Pakistan beat Argentina 4-2
May 24th
Staff Report IPOH, Malaysia: In their opening match, Pakistan beat Argentina 2-4 in hockey’s seven-nation Sultan Azlan Shah Cup in Malaysia. Sohail Abbas is leading Pakistan’s 18-man squad as a captain and Waqas Sharif as vice captain in the tournament.
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