Archives for June 7, 2016
Clinton has delegates to clinch White House nomination: US media
LOS ANGELES: Hillary Clinton has received commitments from enough delegates to clinch the Democratic presidential nomination, according to the Associated Press and US networks, ensuring she will be the first…
Saudi still reviewing hajj stampede: minister
JEDDAH, SAUDI ARABIA: Saudi authorities are still reviewing a deadly stampede which struck last year’s hajj pilgrimage, the minister of hajj and umra said on Tuesday. It was a rare…
Five dead, two injured in Paris suburb fire
SAINT-DENIS, FRANCE: At least five people were killed and two others seriously injured in a building fire in a suburb of Paris on Monday evening, the fire service said. A…
Get rid of corruption, vote for change: Imran urges Kashmiris
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan has asked the people of Azad Kashmir to rid the valley and the country of corrupt elements by voting to his party for a…
Mother, child healthcare: Rawalpindi gets filter clinic
RAWALPINDI: A maternity and paediatric filter clinic was inaugurated at the busiest Committee Chowk on Monday. The hospital, built at a cost of Rs100 million would provide primary health care…
Safe City Project gets operational: Islooites promised safety
ISLAMABAD: The much-delayed Islamabad Safe City Project costing the national exchequer $125 million or over Rs13 billion, was inaugurated on Monday. The project aims at making the capital “free of…
Saas ba[who]: ‘Women’s role is changing’
NEW DELHI: Actor-host Mona Singh feels things are no more the same for Indian television as they once were. Insisting that television is a very women-centric medium, she said, “I…
Opening weekend: ‘Housefull 3’ makes over Rs50m in Pakistan
KARACHI: The final box office weekend before Ramazan had something very different in store for the sequels of two famous Bollywood and Hollywood movies that made their way to the…
Rumi so white: Hollywood filmmaker wants to cast Leo as Sufi mystic
Oscar-winning screenwriter David Franzoni is making a biopic on Sufi poet Jalaluddin Rumi, and has generated heaps of criticism on social media for wanting to cast Leonardo DiCaprio as Rumi.…
Feet of clay: Djokovic clay-rly the best
KARACHI: The last time Andy Murray and Novak Djokovic played against each other, it was on the clay courts of the eternal city at the Rome Masters. Djokovic, two-time defending…