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  • Muslim students protest over hijab ban in Indian college continues

    Muslim students protest over hijab ban in Indian college continues

    Muslim students are continuing to protest outside their college gate on Friday after they were barred from entering the premises for wearing a hijab. The college is located in Karnataka state, India.

    Police arrived at the protest after hundreds of students joined the sit-in protest and demanded that the girls be allowed to enter the college.

    They were chanting, “We want Education”.

    https://twitter.com/safaperaje/status/1489520351105241089

    Parents of the students also joined and questioned college authorities on sending their children out of school and making them stand on the road for wearing a hijab. However, college authorities claim that they have to follow the orders from the government.

    The management claims that if they allow hijab on their campus then other Hindu students would take saffron shawls and religious symbolism is not permitted in the educational institute.

    Karnataka Home Minister Araga Jnanendra said that religion should be kept away from education and students should neither come wearing hijab or saffron shawls to schools.

    On Thursday, the principal of the college closed the gate for students wearing hijab. This incident happened after some Hindu students in saffron shawls were stopped at the gate as well.


    They were raising slogans of ‘Jai Shri Ram’.

    Another government college in Karnataka has banned the hijab and saffron scarves over rising tension fears.

  • 46 per cent of Pakistanis think Imran Khan is corrupt: survey

    46 per cent of Pakistanis think Imran Khan is corrupt: survey

    The Quarterly Performance Evaluation Survey (QPES), a Pulse Consultant’s indigenous tracking tool of public perceptions about the government’s performance has released its report.

    According to a question in the report, when responders were asked: “Do you agree with [PM] Imran Khan’s statement of him being a brand and not being corrupt?” a total of 46 per cent didn’t agree with him and only 19 per cent believe the premier.

    65 per cent of responders from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa think that corruption and poor performance in the province led to Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s (PTI) defeat in the local election.

    It is revealed that 77 per cent think that the Murree tragedy was a sudden disaster.

    Further, the survey says that 18 per cent of the country is satisfied with PM Khan and 56 per cent believe PM Khan’s claim that Pakistan is out of the economic crisis. 15 per cent think that inflation will be reduced in the next three months.

    84 per cent of Pakistanis consider inflation as the biggest problem of the country and 99 per cent of Pakistanis say ‘Inflation has increased in past three months.’

  • Amna Ilyas jokingly clarifies about sexual orientation on Wajahat Rauf’s show

    Amna Ilyas jokingly clarifies about sexual orientation on Wajahat Rauf’s show

    Actor and model Amna Ilyas appeared on Wajahat Rauf’s digital chat show, on which she spilled the beans about her colleagues and personal life.

    On being asked about being confused about her sexual orientation, Amna stated that she has now understood that she is not a lesbian and is very much interested in men. She joked about the same on Wajahat’s previous show.

    Last year the Baaji diva appeared on Faizan Sheikh and Aadi Adeal Amjad’s chat show, The Mazedaar Show. During the ‘This or That’ segment of the show the Zinda Bhaag star was asked that what does she do when she see a girl who is short.

    The host asked if she laughs at them or tells them that they can get taller.

    Amna said that “I laugh at them, I am not a racist but I laugh.”

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  • VIDEO: What was PM Khan looking at when he said ‘level hee aur hai’ at the Olympics?

    VIDEO: What was PM Khan looking at when he said ‘level hee aur hai’ at the Olympics?

    The Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Khan is attending the opening ceremony of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics at Bird’s Nest, Beijing along with federal ministers, Minister of Information and Broadcasting Fawad Chaudhry, Federal Minister for Planning, Development and Special Initiatives Asad Umar, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Pakistan Shah Mahmood Qureshi and other diplomats on Friday.

    While talking to Fawad and watching the opening ceremony, Pm Khan commented on the stadium and said “is sab ka level hee or hai.” Check out the video:

    https://youtu.be/IjYz0hcbfn4

    We have collected the pictures of the PM Khan enjoying the ceremony. Have a look:

    Along with PM Khan, Chinese President Xi Jinping was due to meet more than 20 leaders as Beijing officially kicks off the event. Countries whose leaders are attending include Russia, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Argentina and Ecuador. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus are also attending the opening ceremony.

  • ‘There will be war’: Sheikh Rasheed says no other way with the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan

    ‘There will be war’: Sheikh Rasheed says no other way with the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan

    Interior Minister Sheikh Rasheed has said that talks with the banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) cannot move forward, reports Geo Urdu.

    Sheikh Rasheed told the Senate cabinet committee that talks with the banned TTP could not proceed, adding that the conditions imposed by the banned organisation were not acceptable and the ceasefire was broken by the banned organisation itself.

    Rasheed further said that a delegation has gone for talks but there are reports that the talks will not be successful. He also said that there will be a war with the banned TTP and that there is no other way to deal with the banned outfit.

    The interior minister further said that the TTP are present in the border area of ​​Afghanistan, some new groups have also joined them and are also in touch with India and Afghanistan.

    Rasheed said that security forces foiled a major catastrophe that could have occurred in Noshki and Panjgur while terrorists killed in Islamabad belonged to the same banned organisation.

    Rasheed on Thursday, while speaking on Geo News programme ‘Aaj Shahzeb Khanzada Kay Sath’, said that there was a link between Baloch militant groups and the banned TTP, as well as other militant groups, to carry out terror attacks in Pakistan.

    Rasheed further revealed, “the banned TTP has started extortion in Peshawar.”

  • Leading lady Kiran Tabeir hits out at trolls for trolling over controversial Fiza and Shiza scene

    Leading lady Kiran Tabeir hits out at trolls for trolling over controversial Fiza and Shiza scene

    A clip of a Pakistani drama Judwa-Haqeeqat is doing the rounds on social media in which a bride has been swapped on her wedding night by her twin sister and netizens are confused about what is happening.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjMm5tvt9Lg

    Memes of that viral clip are circulating on social media.

    Actor Kiran Tabeir, who essayed the dual roles of Fiza and Shiza in the play, has now responded to the backlash on social media with a lengthy post.

    The Parizaad star has asked netizens to focus on more important issues and put their energies towards more positive things or else they can join the crowd and enjoy the controversy.

  • VIDEO: Reporter asks Biden’s spokesperson to show ‘evidence’ that Russia is starting a war in Ukraine

    VIDEO: Reporter asks Biden’s spokesperson to show ‘evidence’ that Russia is starting a war in Ukraine

    United States (US) State Department Spokesperson Ned Price was questioned by Associated Press (AP) reporter Matt Lee about the evidence behind US officials’ belief that Russia intended to release an elaborate propaganda video on Ukraine in order to justify beginning a war.

    A heated argument between the two [Price and Lee] can be heard in a video. Lee demanded Price to show the evidence to which he responded by saying that the information came from US intelligence, thus is classified.

    “Okay, well, where is it? Where is this information?” Lee asked. Price responded by asking Lee if he would want a printed-out transcript of the briefing.

    “That’s not evidence, that’s you saying it. I would like to see some proof that shows that the Russians are doing that,” Lee continued the argument.

    Following the press briefing, Price said that he and Lee have had their fair share of sparring sessions. “Nothing but respect for him, which I underscored in a call to him after the briefing,” he added.

    Russia has long resisted Ukraine’s move towards European institutions, and the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) as it shares a border with Ukraine.

    Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky have denied the news of an invasion. However, the US argued that Russia has no explanation for the troops posted close to Ukraine.

  • ‘Pakistan is our strategic partner’: US responds to Rahul Gandhi’s remarks

    ‘Pakistan is our strategic partner’: US responds to Rahul Gandhi’s remarks

    The United States (US) has responded to Indian National Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s remarks in the Indian parliament, Lok Sabha, that the policies adopted by Prime Minister Narendra Modi have brought Pakistan and China closer.

    The US State Department spokesperson Ned Price refused to “endorse” such a statement on Washington’s behalf and said, “Pakistan is our strategic partner.”

    “I’ll let Pakistanis and the PRC (People’s Republic of China) speak for themselves about their relationship. These remarks will certainly not be endorsed by me,” Price said during a regular press briefing.

    The US said it values its relationship with Pakistan while emphasising that there was no requirement, as far as Washington was concerned, for other countries to choose between the US and China.

    “We’ve made the point all along that it is not a requirement for any country around the world to choose between the United States and China,” Ned Price told reporters when asked if Pakistan and China have become closer because “they feel abandoned” by the US.

    Rahul, while speaking in Lok Sabha on the Motion of Thanks on President’s address during the ongoing Budget Session of Parliament on Wednesday, said, “India’s single most important strategic goal has been to keep China and Pakistan apart but what you have done has only brought them together.”

  • Teen monitoring Elon Musk’s jet, demands Tesla car in negotiation with Musk, tracks others too

    Teen monitoring Elon Musk’s jet, demands Tesla car in negotiation with Musk, tracks others too

    A Florida teenager is demanding that billionaire Elon Musk hand over $50,000 to stop him tweeting the location of the billionaire’s private jet. He also said he is creating dozens more accounts tracking the movements of other rich and famous people.

    Jack Sweeney, a 19-year-old college student and aviation enthusiast, said he had created 16 automated Twitter accounts, or bots, similar to @ElonJet to follow jets owned by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates (@GatesJet), Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, the billionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban and the rapper Drake.

    https://twitter.com/ElonJet/status/1488578153094303758?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1488578153094303758%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Ftechnology%2F2022%2Ffeb%2F02%2Fteen-tracking-elon-musk-jet-bill-gates-jeff-bezos-drake-jack-sweeney-tesla-flight-tracker-bot

    In an interview with the Guardian, Sweeney said he had also created a website, Ground Control, to “monetise” the service by offering bespoke tracking services to celebrities’ superfans and to host web versions of the Twitter bots if the microblogging site closes his accounts because of privacy concerns raised by the subjects.

    “They’re either really prominent people or just like really interesting,” Sweeney said of the people he tracks. “Lately I have been adding people that [his followers] have requested.”

    Recent accounts he has set up after requests include Cuban and Drake, who he said was the most interesting.

    “He has the biggest plane out of all of them, it is a giant Boeing.”

    The rapper’s plane, Air Drake, is a $185m 59ft-long Boeing 767-200ER that can carry 216 passengers.

    Sweeney, who created @ElonJet in June 2020, said he hoped Musk would reopen negotiations to buy and close down the account. The co-founder and chief executive of Tesla has refused the teenager’s demand for $50,000.

    Musk, the world’s richest person with an estimated $220bn fortune, has urged Sweeney to delete the account.

    “Can you take this down? It is a security risk,” Musk, wrote in a direct message to the teenager. “I don’t love the idea of being shot by a nutcase.”

    https://twitter.com/GatesJets/status/1488334361502044162?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1488334361502044162%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Ftechnology%2F2022%2Ffeb%2F02%2Fteen-tracking-elon-musk-jet-bill-gates-jeff-bezos-drake-jack-sweeney-tesla-flight-tracker-bot

    Sweeney said receiving the direct message from Musk, whom he described as his idol, was a surreal experience. “I was just about to go to sleep actually, and I’m like, ‘Oh my gosh Elon just messaged me to take down my account’,” he said. “It was insane.”

    “And then he offers me $5,000 to make it harder for people to track him and to take down the account, and I make my counter-offer.”

    Sweeney attempted to negotiate with Musk, replying: “Any chance to up that to $50K? It would be great support in college and would possibly allow me to get a car, maybe even a [Tesla] Model 3.”

    Musk later said he did not feel comfortable paying anything. Sweeney replied that if Musk did not want to pay, he would delete the account in return for an internship at Tesla.

    “That was the last thing I said [to Musk],” Sweeney said. “And then he blocked me.”

  • ‘Firecracker, Insane’: Alia Bhatt impresses Anushka, Janhvi and others in Gangubai Kahthiawadi’s trailer

    ‘Firecracker, Insane’: Alia Bhatt impresses Anushka, Janhvi and others in Gangubai Kahthiawadi’s trailer

    The trailer of Alia Bhatt starrer Gangubai Kathiawadi has been released The much-anticipated trailer depicts the real-life story of a sex worker in Mumbai’s Kamathipura who was forced into prostitution at a young age.

    Directed and produced by Sanjay Leela Bhansali, the movie will release in cinemas on 25th Feb 2022.

    Gangubai Kathiawadi also features Ajay Devgn, Jim Sarbh, Seema Pahwa and Vijay Raazi.

    Have a look at the trailer:

    Many celebrities have praised Alia and the trailer: