Don’t dance, don’t smoke, don’t drink: Not fiesta time in Spain’s COVID-19 fight By: Agencies on August 15, 2020Spanish authorities ordered the closure of nightclubs, banned drinking in outdoor public areas and smoking when keeping a safe distance from people is impossible, among other measures imposed on Friday to try to stem a coronavirus resurgence. Infections have spiked in recent days following the end of Spain’s tough lockdown seven weeks ago. Thursday’s almost […]
Karamat Mughal — the Punjabi writer who compiled and edited syllabus of Punjabi language By: By Dr Amjad Parvez on August 14, 2020Karamat Mughal is in different fields such as fiction, criticism and teaching. He is also an editor, translator, transcribe, column writer, feature writer etc. It is because in Punjabi there is need of writing in every field. He is an activist struggling for introducing Punjabi at primary education level. In FC College, Lahore Karamat Mughal […]
The after theory of Terry Eagleton By: Dr. Zia Ahmed on August 14, 2020In a recently published article titled Death of Postmodernism, Alison Gibbons claimed that the life of postmodernism is over. Similar opinion is voiced about critical theory by Terry Eagleton who believes that age of theory is over. But the fact is that Postmodernism or any other theory does not die or get wiped out, in […]
Remove masks, celebrate freedom: fashion grannies return to Beijing street ‘catwalk’ By: Agencies on August 14, 2020Four famous amateur model grandmothers took off their masks during a saunter down the streets of Beijing on Thursday to demonstrate life returning to normal as the COVID-19 pandemic eases. Glamma Beijing, a group of four women who met during a modelling training course after retiring 20 years ago, became an internet sensation in China […]
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan’s prediction comes true By: Staff Report on August 13, 2020With his album sitting on top of the Billboard charts and on Itunes Australia, UK, France, Turkey. Mexico and Switzerland Mahmood Khan’s work has taken the music scene into a whole new dimension. Creating a mainstream global music brand with solid songwriting as its foundation coupled with top of the line craftsmanship, production and feel, […]
Stories of survival, spirituality and oneness through song By: Staff Report on August 13, 2020This far-away distant southern land seems to be making giant leaps and becoming the most extraordinary example by embracing innovation and spirituality. At the forefront of this genre is Mahmood Khan who writes about stories of survival and spirituality and oneness. Mahmood’s future releases include Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan – the lost tapes project. Fans […]
For the art collector with everything, the $1.5 million COVID mask By: Agencies on August 13, 2020Art rather than ostentation is the rationale behind the world’s most expensive coronavirus mask, say the Israeli jewellers who are crafting the $1.5 million object for an unnamed U.S.-based client. Made out of 18 carat gold and studded with 3,600 black and white diamonds, the mask will be fitted with an N99 filter to offer […]
Telemedicine shines during pandemic but will glow fade? By: Agencies on August 12, 2020Racked with anxiety, Lauren Shell needed to talk to her cancer doctor. But she lives at least an hour away and it was the middle of her workday. It was also the middle of a pandemic. Enter telemedicine. The 34-year-old Leominster, Massachusetts, resident arranged a quick video visit through the app Zoom in May with […]
What do the kids say? K-12 students sound off on school By: Agencies on August 12, 2020Parents have weighed in on reopening schools. Teachers have weighed in. Public health experts, too, along with cities, states and President Donald Trump. But what about the kids themselves? As the grown-ups fret, kindergartners to high schoolers faced with a range of scenarios for virtual and in-person classes are expressing both fear and glee over […]
Priced out of services, Venezuelans turn creative for water and gas By: Agencies on August 12, 2020Venezuelans are steadily losing access to cheap basic services from water to cooking gas that have helped them survive economic crisis, forcing many to find creative solutions and adding pressure during the coronavirus quarantine. Services have long been near-free due to heavy subsidies by the ruling Socialist Party, which has overseen a six-year economic collapse […]