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Zaka Ashraf hopes for better ties with India post BCCI meet
Zaka Ashraf, chairman of the Management Committee Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) on Monday, welcomed the four-member delegation of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) including its President Roger Binny and Vice-President Rajeev Shukla. The PCB official is hopeful that the visit will improve relations between the PCB and the BCCI. The four-member Indian delegation is visiting Pakistan after the PCB invited its officials to visit and watch Asia Cup 2023 matches as the event is being hosted by Pakistan. The BCCI delegation is expected to spectate Asia…
Islamabad IG issued show-cause notice over Parvez Elahi’s arrest
Islamabad Inspector General (IG) Dr Akbar Nasir Khan has been issued a show-cause notice for contempt of court relating to Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) President Parvez Elahi’s rearrest under 3-MPO (Maintenance of Public Order) last week. The LHC ordered the Islamabad police chief to appear before the court on September 8. The PTI president was rearrested under 3-MPO by the Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) police shortly after being released by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) and subsequently, the seasoned politician was put under house arrest in Adiala jail for the next…
Inform court before arresting Imaan Mazari, IHC tells authorities
The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Monday directed the authorities concerned to inform the court before arresting human rights lawyer Imaan Mazari in any case. IHC Justice Miangul Hassan Aurangzeb took up Mazari’s petition seeking protective bail and details of the first information reports (FIRs) registered against her. He announced the order in the hearing today. On August 20, Mazari and Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM) leader Ali Wazir were taken into custody after they delivered a controversial speech at a political rally in Islamabad. Both were booked on the charges of…
Lea Michele takes ‘final bow’ at ‘Funny Girl’ Broadway gig
Lea Michele has been considering what the experience has meant to her as she prepares to perform Fanny Brice in the Broadway musical version of Funny Girl for the final time on Sunday night. In a statement published on her verified Instagram profile on Sunday, Michele referred to her time as Brice as “the role of a lifetime,” noting that it was “an opportunity my younger self could have only dreamed of.” “From watching ‘Funny Girl’ for the first time while I was in ‘Spring Awakening,’ to singing the songs on ‘Glee’…
SpaceX launches record-breaking 62nd mission with Starlink satellites
Elon Musk’s SpaceX launched 21 more of its Starlink internet satellites into orbit tonight from its base in Florida in what will be the space agency’s record-breaking 62nd mission. According to Space.com, a Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Starlink spacecraft lifted off from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center tonight at 10:47pm EDT (0247 GMT). Additionally, fans were able to join in on the thrill as a webcast began 5 minutes before launch time exclusively on the social media site X (formerly known as Twitter) on the SpaceX feed. The Falcon 9’s first stage…
One dead, thousands stranded as fun turns disaster at Burning Man festival
At least one person died and tens of thousands of people were left stranded in a quagmire after torrential downpours in the Nevada desert turned the annual Burning Man festival into a disaster, with officials conducting an investigation into a casualty. Several videos surfaced on social media from the scenes showing “burners” struggling across the wet grey-brown site, with some using trash bags as makeshift boots. Several others were also shown stuck in the dense mud. The events at the Burning Man festival were called off — that drew some 70,000…
Russia downs two other Ukrainian drones over Black sea
The Russian defence ministry said early Monday that it thwarted two Ukrainian drones off Crimea over the Kursk Region, as Kiyv ramped up its attack on Moscow’s facilities amid its slow-paced counteroffensive on multiple fronts. The ministry wrote on its Telegram Monday: “At about 1:00am today, an attempt by the [Kyiv] regime to carry out a terror attack on facilities on Russian soil with the use of two unmanned aerial vehicles was foiled.” “[Russian] air defence forces on duty destroyed the Ukrainian UAVs over the Black Sea off the Crimean…
PSG pushes Lyon to bottom of Ligue 1 as Kylian Mbappe scores twice
Lyon was pressed at the bottom of the French professional football league Ligue 1 by Paris Saint-Germain after striker Kylian Mbappe scored two times, making cumulative goals to 4 Sunday. Kylian Mbappe scored two in the first half after struggling with the crisis-hit team’s Achraf Hakimi and Marco Asensio. The recent gameplay by PSG was ruthless auguring well for the rest of the season.
Malala praises 16-year-old Mahnoor Cheema for scoring 34 GCSEs
LONDON: Nobel Peace Prize winner and education activist Malala Yousafzai has praised the remarkable achievement of fellow Pakistani Mahnoor Cheema, who scored 34 GCSEs with A-stars, making a new UK and world record. Malala hosted a dinner for Cheema and her family to praise her several accomplishments at merely 16 years of age describing her as an inspiration to children in Pakistan and around the world. The two met after Cheema revealed that Malala had been an inspiration to her since she was seven years of age and that she…