Trisha Malik, Zayn Malik’s mother, marked her 51st birthday celebrations the former One Direction singer and his supermodel girlfriend Gigi Hadid. In a post on Instagram stories, Gigi shared a slice of the celebrations as she revealed a photo of Trisha’s scrumptious birthday cake. The diamond-shaped cake can be seen surrounded by strawberries, decorative candles and a cake topper saying …

Indian tennis star Sania Mirza will be debuting in a digital web series MTV Nishedh Alone Together  which is set to release in the last week of November, reported NDTV. The fiction series, in which Sania will be playing herself, is a spin-off of TV show MTV Nishedh, which released in January this year. The show’s central theme is to raise knowledge about tuberculosis  …

Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) Prime Minister Raja Farooq Haider on Wednesday announced the launching of a campaign to “Save Kashmir” amidst what he termed “attempts to divide the state of Jammu and Kashmir”. “This the most difficult time for the state of Jammu and Kashmir because it is being [permanently] divided. But as long as Azad Jammu and Kashmir …

Several people were wounded on Wednesday in a bomb attack at a World War I commemoration ceremony attended by European diplomats at a non-Muslim cemetery in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, France’s foreign ministry said. “The annual ceremony commemorating the end of World War I at the non-Muslim cemetery in Jeddah, attended by several consulates, including that of France, was the target …

ADDIS ABABA: Ethiopia’s air force said on Wednesday it had bombed arms and fuel depots in the northern region of Tigray, as an escalation in fighting prompted thousands more people to seek refuge in neighbouring Sudan. Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed sent troops and warplanes into the federal state of Tigray last week after a months-long feud with its ruling party, …

YANGON: Myanmar’s military-backed main opposition party said on Wednesday that it is rejecting the results of last weekend’s general election, citing unfairness. Unofficial results showed on Tuesday that the ruling National League for Democracy party of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi won a majority of seats in Parliament, giving it a second five-year term in power. At …

WILMINGTON: Vowing to get right to work, President-elect Joe Biden shrugged off President Donald Trump’s fierce refusal to accept the election outcome as inconsequential, even as Democrats elsewhere warned that the Republican president’s actions were dangerous. Raising unsupported claims of voter fraud, Trump has blocked the incoming president from receiving intelligence briefings and withheld federal funding intended to help facilitate …

HONG KONG: Hong Kong’s pro-democracy lawmakers said on Wednesday they would all quit in protest at the ousting of four of their colleagues by the city’s pro-Beijing authorities. The four were disqualified in line with a resolution adopted earlier in the day by China’s parliament authorising the local government to expel any politician it deemed a threat to national security. …

LONDON: The United Kingdom on Wednesday became the fifth country in the world to record more than 50,000 coronavirus-related deaths. Figures from the British government showed that 595 more people in the country died within 28 days of testing positive for the virus, the highest daily number since May. The figure took the UK’s total death toll in the pandemic …

LAHORE: An accountability court on Wednesday indicted Leader of Opposition in National Assembly Shehbaz Sharif, his son Leader of Opposition in Punjab Assembly Hamza Shehbaz and eight other suspects in a Rs7 billion reference of money laundering and assets beyond means. However, all the suspects pleaded not guilty and decided to contest the trial. Denying the charges as false and …