Famed Pakistani actor Ahmed Ali Akbar has bagged an international award for ‘Best Actor’ at Washington DC South Asian Film Festival for his stellar performance in the acclaimed movie ‘Laal Kabootar’. Sharing the ecstatic news, actor Ahmed Ali Akbar turned to Instagram and posted: “Truly honoured to have won Best Actor at Washington DC South Asian Film Festival for Laal …

Pakistani filmmakers have been making waves on prestigious global platforms and the latest to make the country proud is director Asad Faruqi of the documentary ‘Armed with Faith’ who bagged an Emmy. The team behind the documentary that narrates the tale of Pakistan’s brave and vigorous Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Bomb Defusal Squad, won an Emmy for Outstanding Politics and Government Documentary. …

US comedian  Hasan Minhaj was denied entry to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s rally held  in Houston, Texas on Sunday. The Indian actor   was seen posing for camera outside the NRG  Football stadium  where US President Donald Trump also delivered a speech. “Here to celebrate two great nations coming together. India first. But America first too. #HowdyModi ,” he had …

LOS ANGELES: Families involved in a 2012 movie theater mass shooting in Colorado have asked the studio behind “Joker” to help lobby for gun reform, expressing concern about the film’s portrait of a mental breakdown that leads to violence. In a letter to Warner Bros, the families of some of the victims also urged the company to end any political …

LOS ANGELES: Tom Hanks, one of Hollywood’s most beloved actors, is to add another honour to his name with a lifetime achievement award from the organizers of the Golden Globe awards. The Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) said on Tuesday it would present the prolific actor and producer with its Cecil B DeMille award at the Golden Globes ceremony in …

NEW YORK: Placido Domingo, the legendary opera singer facing myriad sexual harassment accusations, is withdrawing from all future performances at New York´s Metropolitan Opera, both he and the institution announced Tuesday. The 11th-hour decision comes just one night before the 78-year-old Spaniard, dubbed the “king of opera,” was scheduled to perform in the Met´s sold-out first production of “Macbeth.” “Placido …

LOS ANGELES: Warner Bros. on Tuesday denied its controversial film “Joker” portrays its murderous outcast villain as a hero, after families hit by the Aurora theater mass shooting penned an open letter expressing concern. The much-hyped new Joaquin Phoenix film, billed as a “character study” of Batman´s nemesis, has been hailed as an Oscar contender, but has raised concerns that …

PARIS: Dior went back to nature in its Paris fashion week show Tuesday with Greta Thunberg plaits and a garden-inspired collection that seemed to spring straight from the earth. With climate change biting at the heels of the fashion industry, and the London shows hit by environmental protests, designer Maria Grazia Chiuri said she wanted to create clothes that “were …

Prince Harry and his wife Meghan on Tuesday gave a royal boost to South African surfers harnessing the power of the waves to promote mental health in poor communities. Help through sport — an issue famously close to the prince’s heart — marked the second day of their tour of southern Africa, the first official trip by the Duke and …

Senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad Tuesday said “There is no sign of freedom of speech in Jammu and Kashmir”. He said this after visiting the Indian occupied Kashmir, where he was on his maiden six-day tour after the revocation of the valley’s special status on August 5. His three earlier bids to visit occupied Jammu and Kashmir, his home …