معروف شاعر، ادیب، ڈرامہ نویس امجد اسلام امجد انتقال فرما گئے

اہلِ خانہ کے مطابق امجد اسلام امجد کا انتقال دل کا دورہ پڑنے سے ہوا ہے۔  انتقال کے وقت ان کی عمر 78 برس تھی۔ اہلِ خانہ نے بتایا کہ امجد اسلام امجد کا انتقال رات سوتے ہوئے ہوا ہے، صبح جب انہیں جگانے کی کوشش کی گئی تو ان کا انتقال ہو چکا تھا۔ امجد اسلام امجد 4 اگست 1944ء کو لاہور میں پیدا ہوئے۔ مرحوم امجد اسلام امجد نے 1967ء میں پنجاب یونیورسٹی سے ایم اے (اردو) کیا، 1968ء تا 1975ء ایم اے او کالج لاہور کے شعبۂ…

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“In the Name of the Mother” comes to Iranian bookstores

Neda Alizadeh Kashani is the translator of the book, which was first published in 2006. “In the name of the father”: marks the beginning of the sign of the cross whereas “In the Name of the Mother” marks the beginning of life: with these words Erri de Luca introduces a text steeped in poetry full of soil and wind, yet never refined high-sounding, but almost smelling of dates and salt. We all know the Blessed Virgin’s story and the Annunciation, the story of Joseph and the Holy Child born in…

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Night of the Universe” named best in Asian Talents of Baku film festival

Directed by Ramin Farzaneh and Parisa Sedaiazar, the film tells the story of a man and a woman, who try to connect the gas to their home in severe winter weather, while their little daughter, Rana, wants her parents to give birth to her. The best director award in this section went to Nazila Azizi from Afghanistan for her film “Noonn”. The Baku International Short Film Festival wrapped up Thursday by announcing winners in different categories in the capital of the Azerbaijan Republic. “Techno, Mama” by Saulius Baradinskas from Lithuania…

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عمران خان کا 26 نومبر کو راولپنڈی پہنچنے کا اعلان

لانگ مارچ کے شرکا سے ویڈیو خطاب کے دوران عمران خان نے ’’حقیقی آزادی‘‘ مارچ کے دوسرے مرحلے کا اعلان کرتے ہوئے کہا کہ ہماری تحریک نہیں رکے گی، 26 نومبر کو شفاف انتخابات کا مطالبہ کریں، ساری قوم مل کر ہمارے ساتھ جدوجہد کرے، سب سے اگلے ہفتے پنڈی میں ملاقات ہوگی۔ علاوہ ازیں انہوں نے کہا کہ ہماری اپنی اسٹیبلشمنٹ نے ان کو کرپٹ کہا ہے، میرا سوال ہے کہ ایک دم یہی لوگ کیسے اسٹیبلشمنٹ کے لیے ٹھیک ہو گئے، مان لیتے ہیں اسٹیبلشمنٹ نے سازش نہیں کی…

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No Terminator: Elon Musk teases ‘useful’ humanoid robot

An Optimus prototype wheeled on stage during an annual Tesla AI Day presentation was mounted to a small platform. The robot, which remains a work-in-progress, waved to the audience and raised its knees. “Our goal is to make a useful humanoid robot as quick as possible,” the billionaire tech pioneer Musk told the audience at the event in Silicon Valley. “There is still a lot of work to be done.” Tesla is adapting its autonomous car technology to give Optimus capabilities such as walking safely or working on a factory…

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6 Pakistan Army officials martyred in Harnai helicopter crash: ISPR

“All six personnel on board, including two pilots, have embraced shahadat,” the military’s media affairs wing said, adding that the incident occurred late last night. The ISPR has yet to release details about the cause of the crash which comes more than a month after a similar incident occurred in Balochistan. On August 1, a Pakistan Army helicopter with six people on board, including Commander 12 Corps Lieutenant General Sarfraz Ali, lost contact with the air traffic control in Balochistan’s Lasbela district. A day later, the wreckage of the helicopter was…

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‘Everybody was running away.’ Ukrainians in Kharkiv villages describe Russia’s retreat

Ukraine had hoped it would mark a turning point. Six months have passed since Russia launched its invasion and Ukraine has since fired back with two counteroffensives — one in the South and the other in the East — carefully planned for months and supported by massive US military aid packages. Not even the messaging was left to chance. Ahead of the first counteroffensive launched in the south on August 29th, public communications were carefully crafted to lay the groundwork for the second Ukrainian military campaign in the east, which…

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Turkish actor Celal Al of Dirilis: Ertugrul is in Karachi to help flood affectees

Taking to his Instagram on Monday, Celal shared a video clip of himself in Karachi, talking to his followers about the floods in Pakistan and how he and the team from Red Crescent are on ground to help people affected by the floods. “Pakistan, Karachi. We are taking your [donations] to the affected people. You can also help by texting Pakistan [to] 2868,” he wrote. If you want to donate, here is an extensive list of organisations accepting donations and working to aid people affected by the floods. As of…

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K-drama Squid Game competes for Emmys history by becoming first foreign-language show to win top honours

The Netflix show — in which misfits and criminals compete for cash in barbaric and deadly versions of schoolyard games — aimed to emulate the success of Oscar-winning South Korean movie parasite with a triumph at TV’s top prize gala. But it faces tough competition from previous winner succession, the tale of a family vying for control of a media empire — rife with Shakespearean backstabbing — that earned the most nominations overall at 25, and won the Best Drama category over Squid Game. “It’s pretty hard to go against that HBO juggernaut,”…

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Beyond the rescue by Arifa Noor

Is it simply because some parts of the country have not been impacted? This could be one reason, for at the beginning of the pandemic the threat had seemed equal for us all, and it was so not just in Pakistan but the world over. Perhaps that is why the danger felt more imminent, and as a result so did the efforts to tackle it. But another reason for this is also that this time around, politics has not come to a standstill. The rallies, the jalsas and the tough…

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