American actor Angelina Jolie is dismayed after her ex-husband Brad Pitt was given joint custody of their children recently. While chatting with Page Six , sources spoke about how the Salt actor thinks the California court system has failed her by not permitting her and Pitt’s children to testify against their father in court. According to the report, Jolie is not too upset about …

COLOMBO: Tonnes of plastic pellets from a burning container ship swamped Sri Lanka’s west coast on Friday, sparking a ban on fishing as international efforts to salvage the vessel dragged into a ninth day. The government declared an 80-kilometre coastal area off limits for fishermen fearing contamination with pollutants and plastic waste from the stricken ship. The ban included Colombo’s …

Lyricist and singer Ed Sheeran recently shed light on how often his infant daughter ‘cries’ each time he opens his mouth to sing to her. The singer recently appeared on Radio 1’s Big Weekend this Saturday on BBC Radio 1 and answered the “difficult questions.” While talking about his 9-month-ol daughter Lyra Antarctica, Sheeran was quoted saying, “I definitely spent hours and …

Kourtney Kardsahian recently dished out all of the paparazzi management advice she gave Addison Rae over the years. The conversation occurred this Thursday on Rae’s podcast That Was Fun? with Addison and Sheri and Kourtney was quoted saying, The duo got together this Thursday for an episode of Rae’s podcast That Was Fun? with Addison and Sheri and Kourtney was the first …

BAGHDAD: Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi on Friday arrived in Iraq’s capital where he will hold detailed discussions with the leadership of this country on bilateral cooperation and on the unity of Ummah. The foreign minister was received at the Baghdad International Airport by Iraq’s Deputy Foreign Minister Dr Saleh Al-Tamimi, Iraqi ambassador in Pakistan Hamid Lafta, Pakistan’s ambassador-designate to …

ISLAMABAD: Amid strong protest from the opposition over an incomplete quorum, the National Assembly on Friday extended the newly amended National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Ordinance-1999 for another 120 days. The opposition claimed that NA Speaker Asad Qaiser had allowed the passage of a resolution for a second extension of the NAB Ordinance despite the absence of quorum due to which …

LAHORE: The government has decided to prepare master plans of 154 urban local governments/cities of Punjab in a bid, as per its claims, to control increasing migration of the people from small towns to big cities. The five major cities — Lahore, Gujranwala, Faisalabad, Rawalpindi and Multan—have not been included in the list as they already have master plans for …

LAHORE: Punjab has demanded deployment of neutral monitors at all barrages in the country to do away with no-confidence among the federating units on water sharing. “We want neutral umpires on water sharing among provinces. This step is necessary in the wake of Sindh’s reports of 39 per cent water transmission losses (evaporation into air and seepage into soil) which …

Pakistan has received 100,000 doses of Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine through Covax — the World Health Organisation’s global shared vaccine programme — while shipments of diluents and syringes will be arriving today (Saturday) and tomorrow. The announcement of the vaccine’s arrival was shared by Unicef Pakistan on Twitter which also commended Pakistan for the “successful rollout of the countrywide Covid-19 vaccination …

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Friday issued a notice to the advocate general for Punjab on a contempt petition for not implementing its March 25 order for the restoration of local government institutions in the province, after their dissolution had been declared unconstitutional. A three-judge SC bench, headed by the chief justice of Pakistan, took up the contempt petition moved …