LAHORE: The country’s cotton production stood at 6.85 million bales as of Nov 15, a year-on-year growth of 70 per cent, according to the latest data issued by Pakistan Cotton Ginners Association (PCGA) on Thursday. During the same period a year ago, cotton ginning factories across the country received four million bales. PCGA stats show Punjab has so far produced …

ISLAMABAD: The Elec­tion Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Thursday appe­ared to be unsure about using electronic voting machines (EVMs) in next general elections. The issue came under discussion at a meeting of the National Assembly’s Stan­ding Committee on Law and Justice and the ECP secretary briefed the panel on the machine. Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz MNA Mohsin Shahnawaz Ranjha pointed out …

ISLAMABAD: The Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) on Thursday gathered various Islamic scholars who gave a ruling (fatwa) that smoking is impermissible, undesirable and unlawful, due to its negative impact on the human health. They were gathered at a conference organised by the Society for the Protection of the Rights of the Child (Sparc) along with CII. Participants of the …

ISLAMABAD: As the arrival of winter has increased the rate of Covid-19 infections in several countries, Pakistan’s positivity rate, which remained less than one per cent for the past six days, went up to 1pc on Thursday. According to data of the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC), 460 people were infected with Covid-19 and 10 died over the past …

Meghan Markle recently left fans in laughter over her prank segment alongside Ellen DeGeneres. The entire prank was part of an IFB segment where the royal did everything dictated by Ellen via a hidden earpiece. In the video, she met with a few vendors that set up stalls on Ellen’s lot and walked up to one selling crystals making humming …

London: Members of the Afghanistan women´s youth development football team have been airlifted to the UK in an evacuation flight funded by US celebrity Kim Kardashian. The 35 female footballers and their families, a total of 130 people, arrived at Stansted Airport, east of London, in the early hours of Thursday morning, according to the ROKiT Foundation. The squad had …

Bollywood actress and dance sensation Nora Fatehi delighted her millions of fans with behind-the-scenes of her freshly-released item song Kusu Kusu. The Dilbar girl turned to Instagram and shared the BTS of Kusu Kusu. She posted the video with caption “I just dropped the full Kusu kusu song vlog and bts on my Youtube channel! Go watch it. Check out how we prepared and …

American actor Jennifer Lawrence is detailing her feelings ahead of meeting singer Ariana Grande on the sets of Don’t Look Up. Speaking to Variety in a recent interview,   the  Oscar winner star shared that he was ‘nervous’ before  meeting the Thank U, Next singer. “She can’t make bad music. I’ve since reflected on my behavior with Ariana Grande. I went full radio contest …

American TV personality Khloé  Kardashian says sister Kim Kardashian is her saviour in times of need. Speaking to Cosmopolitan for their December issue, the 37-year-old  relaity TV star said that she always turns to Kim to tackle private and professional drama. “She’s the PR crisis helper,” said Khloé.”Poor girl. She’s really calm and now that she knows all this legal jargon [Kim …

Billie Eilish, after bagging huge honours as a singer, is now gearing up to make headlines as a host. Taking to Instagram, the Bad Guy hit-maker announced that she has been roped in to front an episode of Saturday Night Live. The 19-year-old singer seemed thrilled for a new experience as she captioned the post, “AHHHHHH!!! I’M HOSTING AND PERFORMING ON SNL!!! CRAAAAZY …