Jameela Jamil is known for not mincing any words when it comes to speaking her mind. The actress recently decided to respond to all the media reports circulating widely pertaining to her friendship with Meghan Markle. The Sun earlier reported that Jamil has grown a deeper bond with the Duchess of Sussex ever since the latter moved to California. “Jameela and …

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan reported 513 new cases of the novel coronavirus during last 24 hours, taking the national tally of infections to 298,025. According to the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC), five more people succumbed to the deadly virus during this period, lifting the death toll from the disease to 6,340. As many as 282,553 patients have recovered from the …

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Friday that “vaccine nationalism” would only slow the effort to quash the pandemic and called for vaccines to be used fairly and effectively. Tedros said 78 high-income countries had now joined the “COVAX” global vaccine allocation plan, bringing the total to 170 countries, and the “number is growing”. He urged others to join …

NEW YORK: The Chinese government is complicating the US-government-ordered sale of US TikTok assets. China on Friday introduced export restrictions on artificial intelligence technology, seemingly including the type that TikTok uses to choose which videos to spool up to its users. That means TikTok’s Chinese owner, ByteDance, would have to obtain a license to export any restricted technologies to a …

KARACHI: Total cement despatches (local sales and export) plunged 27 per cent to 3.520 million tonnes in August from 4.838m tonnes in July due to slowdown in construction activities amid countrywide rains, Eid ul Azha and Ashura holidays. However, overall despatches posted a 5pc increase over 3.35m tonnes reported in August 2019. The local uptake in August increased by 4.84pc …

ISLAMABAD: A parliamentary panel on Friday constituted a special committee comprising bankers, parliamentarians, leading religious scholars and representatives from relevant ministries and the central bank to move quickly towards a complete Islamic financial system in the country. The National Assembly’s standing committee on Finance & Revenue presided over by PTI’s Faiz Ullah also expressed dissatisfaction over the slow progress on …

KARACHI: Pakistan’s ability, capacity and success in business innovation declined in 2020 as the country’s ranking on the Global Innovation Index (GII) fell to 107 during the year from 104 in 2019. The GII is compiled by the World Intellectual Property Organisation, INSEAD business school and Cornell University which publishes its annual rankings after evaluating innovations in the country’s institutions, human capital …

ISLAMABAD: Prompted by the Supreme Court’s directives, the power division and power regulator on Friday appeared to be setting in motion actions against K-Electric for its inability to restore power supply to its consumers following recent torrential rains. Official sources told Dawn that top officials of the power division and the National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (Nepra) had held a series of meetings, …

Turkish actress Esra Bilgiç on Friday treated her fans with a stunning selfie. The picture, which the “Dirilis: Ertugrul” actress shared on Instagram, earned over 300,000 likes on the photo and video sharing app within an hour. Esra rose to international fame with her stellar performance in the popular historical TV series.

Khloé Kardashian is not backing down after receiving backlash from fans on reconciliation with ex-boyfriend Tristan Thompson. An insider revealed to Us Weekly, “At this point, Khloé doesn’t really care about any backlash from fans about her being back together with Tristan. “She has already been through that ringer and accepts that some fans are always going to have their own, often …