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  • Video: Chinese company hands over $9 million bonus to employees from mountain of cash

    A video of a Chinese company handing over bonuses to employees from a huge pile of cash has gone viral. The owner of the crane-manufacturing company has distributed $9 million in bonuses from a mountain of money.

    Cui Peijun, the founder and owner of Henan Mine, celebrated bumper sales in 2022 by distributing $740,000 per person to the company’s top five sales managers.

    The company also organised a cash counting competition in which participants took as many 100-yuan notes as they could count in a given period of time.
    Videos show employees wearing red scarves leaving the stage while carrying bundles of cash.

  • Mobile phones, junk food and energy drinks banned in Punjab schools

    Mobile phones, junk food and energy drinks banned in Punjab schools

    The Punjab School Education Department has banned mobile phones, junk food and energy drinks in all private schools across the province, ARY has reported.
    The notification issued by the education Department instructed administrators of all private schools to strictly enforce adherence to the new guidelines.

    Monitoring teams will frequently visit private schools to check on the application of new policies.

    Junk food and sodas are banned in schools in many countries, including some states in India.

  • Commissioner in the day, rock star at night: here are some fun facts about North Nazimabad’s new Assistant Commissioner

    North Nazimabad’s new Assistant Commissioner Hazim Bangwar is creating a storm on social media which has yet to see a government officer who is also a model, singer and a philanthropist. Take a deep dive along with us all about this trendy dude’s background.

    1. Bangwar’s mother is from Iraqi descent and is an architect, while his father, Ali Akbar Bangwar, has served as the Police General D.I.G of Pakistan.

    2. Bangwar moved to New York at the age of six where he finished high school from Midwood High School. He later got his Bachelors in Fashion Design and Marketing from AIU London, and then his LLB from University of London.

    3. He spent his academic years producing music, and signed a two year deal with Interscope Records. Bangwar’s first mix tape ‘One Man Army’ was promoted in both US and UK. He was later offered a deal by Dwayne Michael Carter Jr. under Young Money Entertainment as a singer/songwriter. He released many tracks like ‘Hell Ya’ and the Urdu track ‘Tujko Bhulaya’.

    4. Aside from his singing career, Bangwar is a philanthropist and has founded the Hamza Bangwar Foundation, and doesn’t shy away from having the best lewks as we can see from his insta page!

  • Man sues woman for friend-zoning him, demands $3 million for ’emotional trauma’

    A man has sued a woman in Singapore for being friend-zoned to the tune of $ 3 million. The man, identified as Kawshigan, is seeking three million dollars, for “emotional trauma.”


    Kawshigan is taking Nora Tan to court for not reciprocating his feelings and for the “trauma” he felt when he found out she considered him just a friend.

    The two first met in 2016.


    Kawshigan started to develop romantic feelings for Nora Tan who had always thought of them as friends.

    After Nora consented to go to counseling with him, he decided to postpone filing a lawsuit against her. After receiving counseling for one and a half years, he was still unable to understand that she was not interested in dating him.
    He then filed the law-suit against him.

  • Ahmadi Ibadatgah vandalised in Karachi

    Ahmadi Ibadatgah vandalised in Karachi

    An Ahmadiyya Ibadatgah in Karachi was vandalised by a mob on Thursday, Dawn has reported. The news was confirmed by police and the spokesperson of the community.


    A police officer who requested anonymity reported that the spokesman, Mr. Mehmood, said that 10 to 12 masked men attacked and damaged the minaret of the place of worship in Saddar in an attack similar to the one that occurred in the Martin Quarters neighbourhood on January 18.


    The incident happened around 03:30 pm, the spokesman told local police. Although there were several officers there, he said that they were helpless to stop the assailants.
    The Supreme Court of Pakistan in a landmark judgment on minorities’ rights issued in 2014, had asked the government to form a special task force for the protection of minorities’ places of worship.

  • US restricts visa for Taliban for anti-women policies

    US restricts visa for Taliban for anti-women policies

    United States (US) Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced new visa restrictions against the Taliban on Wednesday in response to the Afghan administration’s prohibitions on women’s employment and education.


    “I am taking action today to impose additional visa restrictions on certain current or former Taliban members, members of non-state security groups, and other individuals believed to be responsible for, or complicit in, repressing women and girls in Afghanistan,” Blinken said in a statement.


    The Taliban have put several limitations on Afghan women since regaining power in August 2021, including prohibiting them from holding public office, going to secondary and higher education institutions, or visiting parks.


    They forbade NGOs from working with Afghan women towards the end of December, causing a number of organisations to halt their operations.

  • Male student faints seeing an examination hall full of girls

    Male student faints seeing an examination hall full of girls

    A 17-year-old male student studying in Grade 12 in Bihar, India, fainted after seeing an examination hall full of 500 girls.

    According to Indian news outlets, the student, Shankar, entered the exam center and started writing. However, Shankar got nervous and fainted. He also suffered a fracture in his arm after falling from his chair.

    Shankar has said that he was nervous because he was the only boy in the examination room while the remaining 500 were female students.

    He said that he felt nervous and fainted at the thought of finishing the exam as the lone male among hundreds of female students.

  • Govt to launch ‘groundbreaking’ mental health app in March

    Govt to launch ‘groundbreaking’ mental health app in March

    The Government of Pakistan is planning to launch a mental health app named ‘Humraaz’, Head of Prime Minister’s Strategic Reforms Unit, Salman Sufi has said in a tweet on Wednesday.

    Sufi called upon Psychologists/Psychiatrists to be a part of the initiative, which he termed “groundbreaking”.

    Sufi, while talking exclusively to The Current, said that the app will be launched in March.

    He added that Humraaz will give access to help in case a citizen has suicidal thoughts or a mental health emergency. Humraaz can also be used to make appointments with psychiatrists and psychologists.


    “Also they will be able to share issues they face in confidentiality,” he added.

    Sufi further said that the application is being launched on the directives of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif.

  • Man fakes own death to see how many people will attend his funeral

    Baltazar Lemos, 60, faked his death, complete with an announcement on social media and then organised a fake funeral for his family and friends to see who would show up.


    Lemos, who regularly officiates funerals, recalled being saddened after presiding over a service for someone with just two people there as opposed to those where hundreds were present.


    After Lemos’s post, his nephews rushed to the hospital only to find out that he hadn’t been admitted to the hospital.


    His friends also heard the news and inquired about the cause of death, but they received no response. Instead, people were advised to attend the event by sharing the funeral’s location and time.


    The man’s friends and family attended the parade that was planned in his hometown to express their sorrow. However, when Lemos’ voice was heard, everyone was surprised, and several people started crying.

    Lemos’ surprised people who were grieving for him by opening the coffin lid and emerging from it. However, the mourners became upset and accused him of hurting their feelings.

  • PTA limits access to Wikipedia for 48 hours

    The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has said that it has restricted access to Wikipedia for Pakistanis for 48 hours.

    In a series of tweets from its official Twitter account, PTA said that the free online encyclopedia had “sacrilegious” content, despite being asked by PTA to remove it.

    The restoration of its services will only be considered if they block or remove unlawful content. However, PTA did not specify which contents it deemed unlawful.

    The authority also hinted that Wikipedia may face a permanent block in Pakistan if the platform does not remove or block the content as directed by PTA.