American actress Emma Stone portrays  Disney’s most iconic villains in her new movie Cruella that is garnering a lot of rave reviews after it was premiered over the past weekend. The 32-year-old actress seems to be over the moon as the movie is at the centre of discussion on social media.  Some of her fans broached the topic of Cruella’s dark storyline …

ISLAMABAD: The government on Monday kept the prices of petroleum products unchanged for next 15 days. “The prime minister has decided to maintain the prices of petroleum products as they were on May 17th, 2021,” the petroleum ministry announced. The government has not increased the prices since April 16, and maintained them by adjusting sales tax and petroleum levy so …

LAHORE: Pakistan’s real effective exchange rate (REER) hit 32-month high at 103.3 in April, posting a change of 2.8 per cent from the previous month’s level of 100.5, the central bank reported on Monday. The REER index has been increasing since January, when it dropped to 95.2 from 96.3 in December 2020, on the back of an appreciation of 3.4pc …

GWADAR: After becoming fully operational, the Gwadar Port and Gwadar Free Zone (GFZ) would generate economic activities of around $10 billion per annum, besides creating thousands of new jobs, China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) Authority Chairman retired Lt Gen Asim Saleem Bajwa said on Monday. “Soon after the completion of GFZ, a lot of manufacturing and trading activities will start, cargoes …

COPENHAGEN: France warned on Monday that alleged US spying on European allies using Danish underwater cables would be “extremely serious” if confirmed, as questions mounted over whether Denmark knew what the US was doing. In an investigative report on Sunday, Danish public broadcaster Danmark’s Radio (DR) and other European media outlets said the US National Security Agency (NSA) had eavesdropped on Danish …

LONDON: Britain on Monday announced plans to accelerate its relocation of Afghan staff who worked with the military and their families ahead of a planned withdrawal of US-led Nato forces. Under Britain’s relocation scheme for former and current Afghan staff, many of whom served as translators, over 1,300 workers and their families have been brought to the UK. More than …

Gunmen kidnapped scores of children from an Islamic seminary in central Nigeria, officials said, the latest mass abduction to hit Africa’s most populous nation. Some 200 children were at the school in Niger state on Sunday during the attack, the local government tweeted, adding “an unconfirmed number” were taken. The abduction came a day after 14 students from a university in northwestern …

Jennifer Aniston, who returned to the Friends set after 17 years, got emotional while sharing her  feelings  about joining the cast of the hit sitcom  that shaped her career. The 52-year-old actres said  it was like ‘time traveling’ to a specific era of her life  as she  appeared at the  reunion special for HBO Max. Aniston, who graced the  show …

LAHORE: Out of a total of 370 visas applied for Abu Dhabi for the HBL Pakistan Super League (PSL 6), seven are yet to come which include three players and four officials. It appears that now the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) will be in a better position to announce the schedule of the remaining T20 matches of the league. Currently …

PARIS: More than a third of summer heat-related fatalities are due to climate change, researchers said on Monday, warning of even higher death tolls as global temperatures climb. Previous research on how climate change affects human health has mostly projected future risks from heatwaves, droughts, wild fires and other extreme events made worse by global warming. How much worse depends …