Turkish star Celal AL, who essays the role of Abdul Rehman in historical drama series Dirilis: Ertugrul, has reached 800,000 followers on Instagram and has expressed hope to hit one million soon with the support of the fans. Celal took to photo-video sharing platform and thanked his fans in Turkish, English, Arabic and Urdu languages. He wrote, “I am really thankful …

The nominees of the 27th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards rolled out on Thursday. The star-studded awards ceremony will be simulcast on TNT and TBS on Sunday, April 4, 2021 at 9 PM ET. Cast in a Motion Picture “Da 5 Bloods” “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” “Minari” “One Night In Miami” “Trial of the Chicago 7” Male Actor in a …

India’s agriculture minister defended new agriculture reform laws in parliament on Friday, dampening hopes of a quick settlement with tens of thousands of farmers who have been demanding their repeal by blocking three highways connecting the capital to northern India for over two months. Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar made no new offer to resume stalled talks with the farmers, …

Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) spokesperson Anurag Srivastava on Thursday compared the ongoing farmers’ protests in India over new agricultural laws to the January 6 storming of the US Capitol by supporters of former US president Donald Trump, while hailing the two countries as “vibrant democracies”. The MEA spokesperson was responding to an earlier statement from the US State Department calling for …

It looks like the aftermath of a tornado. There are dirt plots where there used to be makeshift homes; tent poles stacked like firewood; fencing and scrap metal scattered across a desert valley greened by winter rain; a cold fire pit and a pile of kitchen essentials where a cooking tent once stood. This is what remains of the herding …

YANGON: Denied their chance to take their parliament seats after a coup in Myanmar this week, a group of lawmakers held their own house session on Thursday in a show of defiance towards the return of military rule. About a dozen elected legislators from deposed Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD) party held the session …

WASHINGTON: Asserting a broad reset of American foreign policy, US President Joe Biden said on Thursday that he would halt the withdrawal of troops stationed in Ger­many, end support for Saudi Arabia’s military offensive in Yemen and make support for LGBTQ rights a cornerstone of diplomacy. About relations with Moscow, President Biden said he had warned President Vladimir Putin that …

BEIRUT: A prominent Lebanese publisher and vocal critic of Hezbollah was found shot dead in his car on Thursday morning, a brazen killing that sparked fears of a return to political violence in this country gripped by social and economic upheaval. The body of 58-year-old Lokman Slim, a long-time Shia political activist and researcher, was slumped over on the passenger …

NEW DELHI: The US embassy in New Delhi urged India’s government on Thursday to resume talks with farmers whose months-long protests over agricultural reforms erupted into violence last week. India’s Foreign Ministry said it had “taken note” of the comments and underlined ongoing efforts between Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government and farmers’ groups to resolve the situation. “We encourage that …

WASHINGTON: A bipartisan report to the US Congress claims that there’s an understanding between China and Pakistan on how to protect their interests in Afghanistan and Islamabad enjoys a leading role in this strategy. “The increasing closeness of the China-Pakistan relationship means that, for the most part, Beijing’s Afghanistan policy has hewed closely to that of Islamabad, with Islamabad taking …