American singer Halsey dropped some bombshell news on Wednesday, announcing her pregnancy in a surprise post. The singer released some photos from her maternity shoot and left fans taken aback by her surprise pregnancy announcement. Along with the photos where she flaunted her burgeoning baby bump, the musician wrote: “Surprise!” alongside a baby bottle, rainbow and angel emoji. She also …

Bollywood star Rajkummar Rao was full of gratitude after Pakistani diva Zara Noor Abbas lauded his latest film, The White Tiger. The Khamoshi star, 30,Z had turned to her Instagram to sing praises of the latest Netflix release, starring Priyanka Chopra alongside Rao. Terming the film a “masterpiece,” Abbas had urged her fans and followers to watch it on an immediate basis. …

KARACHI: The Pakistan International Airlines has confirmed that the captain of a Lahore-bound commercial flight, PK-304, had spotted “an extraordinary object” hovering in the sky in the airspace between Multan and Sahiwal on January 23. A PIA spokesman said that the captain saw something over 1,000 feet above his aircraft, which was at an altitude of 35,000 feet, and he …

CHAGAI: Prince Fahd Bin Sultan Bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud, governor of Saudi Arabia’s Tabuk region, along with his 13 companions arrived in Dalbandin aboard a special aircraft on Wednesday for hunting houbara bustard. He was received by Balochistan Governor Amanullah Khan Yasinzai, Saudi Ambassador in Pakistan Nawaf Bin Saeed Al-Maliki, Rakhshan Division Commissioner Saeed Ahmed Umrani, DIG Javed Jiskani, …

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and Kuwait on Wednesday said they were keen to expand their bilateral relations. The resolve was expressed during a meeting between Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi and Kuwait’s Assistant Foreign Minister on Asian Affairs Ambassador Ali Suleman Al-Saeed. The senior Kuwaiti diplomat is visiting Pakistan for the third round of Bilateral Political Consultations (BPC), which are taking place …

YOGYAKARTA: Indonesia’s most active volcano erupted on Wednesday with a river of lava and searing gas clouds flowing 3,000 metres (nearly 10,000 feet) down its slopes. No casualties were reported. The sounds of the eruption could be heard 30 kilometres away, officials said. It was Mount Merapi’s biggest lava flow since authorities raised its danger level in November, said Hanik …

WASHINGTON: President Joe Biden will announce new bans on drilling on federal lands, as well as a US-hosted climate summit in April, as part of a raft of actions that take aim at rising global temperatures. The federal government will pause new oil and natural gas leases on public lands or offshore waters “to the extent possible,” and review existing …

Popular short-video Chinese app TikTok is cutting its workforce in India after hundreds of millions of its users dropped it to comply with a government ban on dozens of Chinese apps amid a military standoff between the two countries. “Given the lack of feedback from the government about how to resolve this issue in the subsequent seven months, it is …

BRUSSELS: EU demands that AstraZeneca make up for delays of its Covid-19 vaccine by supplying doses from its UK factories on Wednesday risked setting the bloc and Britain on a post-Brexit collision course. Both the European Union and former member Britain insisted the Anglo-Swedish pharmaceutical company uphold contractual delivery promises to each of them — even as the company said …

The makers and actors of Amazon Prime web series Tandav failed to get relief from India’s Supreme Court after it refused to grant them protection from arrest. Multiple first information reports have been filed against them for allegedly hurting religious sentiments and the team is also facing violent threats. According to NDTV, actor Zeeshan Ayyub, Amazon Creative Head Aparna Purohit and the maker of the …