Budding young actors Rabya Kulsoom and Zain Afzal have been paired for Lemon Max’s new web series ‘Lockdown Ke Side Effects’ – a strikingly relatable and light-hearted take on the current lockdown and social distancing situation. ‘Lockdown ke Side Effects’ follows the story of the modern-day household bounded by the current situation, with Rabya Kulsoom […]
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Dystopian narratives
Humans are fascinated to read about literature that pertains to the past, future, or is about a strange alternate reality. While such realities have various names and fall under several genres, dystopian literate is one of them. Dystopia, in the simplest of definitions, is a future that one does not want to live in. It […]
Faizan Sheikh brings a fun-filled new show ‘The Mazedaar Show’
The accomplished actor and host, Faizan Sheikh is bringing a fun-filled new show ‘The Mazedar Show’, premiered this Eid on TV one. The show went on-air the first and second day of Eid at 9 PM.Bringing Aadi Adeal Amjad as the co-host, ‘The Mazedaar Show’, had an exciting celebrity line-up for its first set of […]
Sleepy lions, empty bars, lost jobs: A world without tourism
With no American visitors to show around the D-Day beaches or the Loire Valley´s chateaux, and no work on the immediate horizon, Paris tour guide Linda Zenou frets about how she´ll pay off a loan and continue to care for her ailing mother in the achingly lean months ahead. “My situation is going to become […]
Highways raise alarm in Cairo’s historic City of the Dead
For centuries, sultans and princes, saints and scholars, elites and commoners have been buried in two sprawling cemeteries in Egypt´s capital, creating a unique historic city of the dead. Now in its campaign to reshape Cairo, the government is driving highways through the cemeteries, raising alarm from preservationists. In the Northern Cemetery last week, bulldozers […]
Law to ban ‘inappropriate’ dress in Cambodia seen threatening women’s freedoms
A proposed law that would let Cambodian police fine people deemed to be dressed inappropriately could be used to curtail women’s freedoms and reinforce a culture of impunity around sexual violence, rights campaigners say. The draft legislation, which will take effect next year if approved by several government ministries and the national assembly, would ban […]
‘Rebuilding Paradise’ looks at emotional toll of deadly fire
Almost two years since a wildfire swept through his mountain town and virtually wiped it out, Steve “Woody” Culleton got to put the final touches on his new home. Two redwood trees were planted in the ground, a new lawn and stone patio transformed the once barren yard into a green refuge. “We’re happy,” he […]
Statue of Crimean War heroine Mary Seacole fetches £101k at auction
A bust of a heroine of the Crimean War who was voted the Greatest Black Briton has sold at auction for £101,000. Mary Seacole, who rivalled Florence Nightingale for her feats in the war, was the daughter of a Scottish soldier and Jamaican mother and born in 1805. She later went to England and when […]
Students, alumni clamor to take care of university’s cows
When the coronavirus pandemic forced the University of Vermont to close and send its students home, the alarm spread: What would happen to the cows? The university´s beloved herd of about 100 dairy cows is normally tended by students taking part in the Cooperative for Real Education in Agricultural Management program, or CREAM. And without […]
After three decades, most polluted US neighborhoods haven’t changed
If your neighborhood was among the most polluted in 1981, it probably still is. Likewise, the least polluted areas are still faring the best, according to a study published on Thursday in the journal Science that analyzed concentrations of fine particulate matter over more than three decades in the United States. Overall, pollution from fine […]