US President Joe Biden on Tuesday installed an energetic critic of Big Tech as a top federal regulator at a time when the industry is under intense pressure from Congress, regulators and state attorneys general. The selection of Pakistan-origin legal scholar Lina Khan to head the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is seen as signaling a tough stance towards tech giants …

PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa cabinet on Tuesday approved the regularisation of 2,500 former servicemen working in the police department. Chief Minister Mahmood Khan chaired the cabinet’s meeting, which lasted around seven hours and discussed 40 agenda items. Spokesman for the government Kamran Khan Bangash later told a news conference that former servicemen were hired by the police department on contractual …

ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly on Tuesday literally turned into a battleground as the opposition and treasury members scuffled with each other and used budget documents and books as rockets when the latter continued their noisy protest to disrupt the budget speech of Leader of the Opposition Shehbaz Sharif for the second consecutive day. Speaker Asad Qaiser suspended the proceedings of …

MUZAFFARABAD: The Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) Legislative Assembly on Tuesday approved some additional privileges for the former prime ministers of the state, without any symbolic objection from a single member from the combined opposition. According to the AJK Ministers (Salaries, Allowances and Privileges) (Amendment) Ordinance, 2021, the former premiers who could avail themselves of the services of a driver …

The health of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has long been a source of morbid fascination in rival South Korea, which sits in the shadow of Kim’s 1.2 million-strong army and his growing arsenal of nuclear-armed missiles. Has he gained even more weight? Is he struggling for breath after relatively short walks? What about that cane? Why did he …

UNITED NATIONS: Pak­is­tan is among 15 countries where electronic (e) waste dismantling and recycling is considered a major health hazard, says a UN report released on Tuesday. India, however, is among the three countries where the e-waste recycling is most prominent. Brazil and China are the other two. All three major South Asian nations — India, Pakistan and Bangladesh — …

Leading lady of Tinseltown, Anne Hathaway’s portrayal in Devil Wears Prada made the  film a huge hit. That being said, many of her fans might be unaware of how the Princess Diaries actor was not the first choice for the role of the overworked assistant Andy Sachs. Director of the film, David Frankel made this revelation and said that before Hathaway was …

LONDON: London’s Metropolitan Police engaged in “a form of institutional corruption” by denying and even concealing failings in its handling of the unsolved murder of a private investigator, an independent panel said on Tuesday. The first objective of Britain’s biggest police force was to “protect itself” in its refusal to acknowledge the many failures in the probe into Daniel Morgan’s …

LONDON: At London’s Dominion theatre, The Prince of Egypt cast rehearse a dance weeks ahead of the show’s re-opening. The musical welcomes back audiences on July 1 with social distancing – measures big West End productions had hoped would end next week so that they could re-open fully but have now been postponed by a month. “We are very fortunate that we …

NAYPYIDAW: Deposed Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi went on trial for sedition in a junta court on Tuesday, more than four months after her government was ousted in a coup that has thrown her country into turmoil. Huge pro-democracy protests against the generals’ February putsch have been met with a brutal crackdown that a monitoring group says has killed …