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  • VIDEO: Climate change protester disrupts Louis Vuitton show in Paris

    VIDEO: Climate change protester disrupts Louis Vuitton show in Paris

    A protester interrupted a Louis Vuitton fashion show in Paris on Tuesday by walking down the ramp with a banner protesting the impact of excessive consumption on the environment, Reuters reported.

    The woman with the banner, which read “Overconsumption = Extinction”, was representing Amis de la Terre France, Youth for Climate and Extinction Rebellion. She walked down the same path as the models, causing a stir in the audience, a Reuters witness said.

    The protester was wrestled to the ground by security officials before being led away.

    The disruption did not interrupt the show as models marched down the runway.

    The show itself had a punk flavour, with sleeves ripped off suit jackets, leaving arms bare, and accessories including studded boots and chainmail headpieces.

    Amis de la Terre France said it targeted the LVMH-owned (LVMH.PA) label to throw a spotlight on the issue of overconsumption.

    “LVMH is the world leader of luxury and has a responsibility when it comes to trends that push the textile industry to constantly renew collection faster and produce more,” Alma Dufour, a group spokesperson, told Reuters.

  • Woman arrested for throwing acid on ex-husband

    A woman was detained for throwing acid on her ex-husband in Lahore, Samaa News reported.

    According to the victim, Sajid Khan, his ex-wife attacked him outside his house near Band Road. The couple separated three years back. A week ago, Khan got married for the second time.

    “On September 30, I remarried. While I was on my way back home, she [the suspect] threw acid on me. There were two people with me who witnessed the attack,” he told the police.

    The investigation officer told Samaa that the woman disguised herself as a beggar to track Khan. “He has sustained third-degree burns on his back, neck and hands,” he added.

    Police have arrested the woman while an investigation is underway.

  • Video: Airplane gets stuck under bridge in India

    Video: Airplane gets stuck under bridge in India

    An Air India plane got stuck underneath a foot overbridge on the Delhi-Gurugram highway outside the Delhi Airport, leaving people shocked.

    The viral video showed that the nose of the aircraft and half of its body had made it through, however, the plane got stuck near the wings area under the bridge, The Indian Express reported.

    Vehicles can be seen passing through one side of the highway while the other side appears to be largely blocked due to the aircraft.

    Later, the airline confirmed there was no mishap involved. The airplane has been sold by Air India and was being transported when it got stuck.

    “This is an old, scrapped aircraft which has already been sold off by us,” said an Air India spokesperson.

    According to the Times of India, a Delhi airport official, when contacted, said no flight or active aircraft had been involved in an incident.

  • Scholarships for Pakistanis at Oxford University

    The British High Commission of Pakistan in London launched the Oxford Pakistan Programme (OPP), which includes graduate scholarships, visiting fellowships, and special lectures.

    Founded by two Oxford alumni, Haroon Zaman and Talha Pirzada, this initiative aims to provide opportunities for bright students, academic and research scholarships for Pakistanis, reports Saama.

    The head of the programme and Associate Professor at the University of Oxford Adeel Malik said in a tweet, “Oxford Pakistan Programme will generate scholarship opportunities for Pakistani students & consolidate Pakistan-related academic activities.”

    An annual Sir Allama Muhammad Iqbal lecture on Eastern Philosophy has been announced under the OPP. The lecture will be delivered by a leading global intellectual every year.

    Pakistanis in the United Kingdom (UK) have pledged over £500,000 for this programme.

    The event launch of OPP was attended by a large number of Oxonians, senior Oxford academicians, scholars, and writers, including Malala Yousafzai.

    Malala has also announced an additional scholarship under the OPP, which will allow one Pakistani girl from an underdeveloped background to study at Oxford every year.

  • Monkey steals money from man travelling in rickshaw

    A man in India was deprived of INR 100,000 (Rs229844.73) after a monkey went off with his money and threw it in the street.

    As per reports, a wild monkey snatched a wrapped towel with more than one lac [Indian] rupees from a traveler in an autorickshaw that was stuck in a traffic jam on a narrow road in Madhya Pradesh and scattered the money all over a busy street. People rushed to grab what they could.

    The monkey came inside the rickshaw and snatched the towel from the hands of the passenger before climbing a tree. The animal began to shake the towel, after which the banknotes began to rain down the street.

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    The money’s owner managed to get his hands on INR56,000 (Rs128,666), as the remaining amount could not be recovered after many people went off with the money.

    The police are now facing problems in tracing one of the suspects as there was no CCTV cameras in the area.

    The police said that the monkey often invades vehicles as many people provide food to them.

    Police have not registered a robbery case due to lack of evidence against anyone.

  • Social media flooded with memes after WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram outage

    WhatsApp, Instagram, and Facebook were not working all around the world on Monday night. A lot of users were unable to send or receive messages.

    WhatsApp outage was reported around 8:39pm (Pakistan Standard Time).

    People across the globe took to Twitter to not only share the problems they were facing but also made memes about the situation.

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  • Mufti Aziz-ur-Rehman indicted in the madrassa sexual abuse case

    Mufti Aziz-ur-Rehman indicted in the madrassa sexual abuse case

    Mufti Aziz-ur-Rehman, his sons, and accomplices have been indicted in the madrassa sexual abuse case by a Lahore court, Samaa has reported.

    The court had adjourned the hearing till October 5. The court ordered the prosecution department to produce its witnesses at the next hearing to record their testimonies.

    As per the challan, the cleric sexually abused his student by promising him help in passing his exam.

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    Previously, Mufti Aziz confessed that the video was not fake and confirmed that he was secretly filmed by his student.

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    The victim in his statement said that Mufti Aziz accused him of cheating in his exams after which he was banned from taking the exams for three years. Mufti Aziz then asked the student to “make him happy” in order to get the ban lifted.

  • Seven booked for gang-raping minor girl for five months

    Seven booked for gang-raping minor girl for five months

    Police on Saturday booked seven people for gang-raping a minor orphan girl for five months. She was repeatedly assaulted by the suspects who blackmailed her and threatened to kill her younger brother, Dawn reported.

    According to the FIR, an orphan girl of Basti Odki Abdullah Shah was allegedly gang-raped by two locals at gunpoint about four to five months ago after the suspects found her alone at her house when her mother was away working as a housemaid.

    The FIR stated the two suspects threatened to murder the victim’s only younger brother Ahmed if she told anyone about the rape.

    Police sources said the girl, however, had informed her mother about the incident who kept visiting the local police station to register the complaint but because of some locally influential people, she was turned away by police officials of the area.

    Meanwhile, another local joined the two suspects in the heinous crime and they would gang-rape the girl whenever they found her alone.

    Some three months ago, four other men of the same area caught the suspects red-handed while they were assaulting the girl in the fields and they too blackmailed and raped her. The FIR said that as a result of repeatedly being rape, the girl got pregnant.

    The sources said some of the police officials forced the victim’s mother into taking the matter to the panchayat (village jury).

    The panchayat decided that the suspects would pay a certain amount to the girl’s mother as compensation and she, along with her two children, leave the village. The girl’s family came to Lahore following the decision.

    However, the family returned to the village and again contacted the police for registration of a case against the suspects.

    Finally, the district police officer took notice of the incident and on his orders, the local police station in Bahawalnagar registered an FIR against all the seven suspects under Section 376 of the Pakistan Penal Code.

    District police spokesperson Saleem Ayaz admitted that the girl’s family had approached the police for help but meanwhile, a local panchayat interfered and settled the issue on its own.

    He said a case against the seven suspects was registered on the order of DPO Zafar Buzdar and three of them had been detained, while raids were being conducted to arrest the others.

  • #PetrolPrice: Memes break the internet

    The government on Thursday, increased the price of petrol by Rs 4 per litre and that of high-speed diesel (HSD) by Rs 2 per litre.

    The prices of kerosene oil and light diesel oil (LDO) were increased by Rs 7.05 and Rs 8.82 per litre, respectively.

    From Oct 1, the price of petrol will be Rs 127.30 per litre, high-speed diesel will be Rs 122.04 per litre, kerosene oil will be Rs 99.31 and light diesel oil will be Rs 99.51 per litre.

    Social media users did not lose the opportunity to start a meme fest following the news.

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  • Japanese princess to marry commoner boyfriend despite dispute

    Japanese princess to marry commoner boyfriend despite dispute

     Japan’s Princess Mako will marry a commoner, her former classmate, this month after years of controversy as she will give up her royal status, BBC News reported.

    The couple is all set to tie the know on October 26.

    The couple initially planned their wedding in 2018, but this was put off, reportedly after Mako’s boyfriend, Mr Komuro’s family had run into financial difficulties.

    They are expected to move to the US after marriage where Mr Komuro works as a lawyer.

    This excessive media coverage around the princess — whose father is Crown Prince Fumihito — and Mr Komuro’s family over the years has caused the princess to suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder, the Imperial Household Agency said, according to news outlet Kyodo.

    Her aunt, Empress Masako, also suffered from a stress-related illness, due to intense pressure to produce a male heir. There is often a stigma around mental illnesses in Japan. The couple first met in 2012 when they were students at the International Christian University in Tokyo.

    They were engaged in 2017 and were set to marry the following year. But news of Mr Komuro’s mother’s financial problems started doing the rounds; she had reportedly taken a loan from her ex-fiancé and not paid him back.

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    The palace denied the delay was linked to this, though Crown Prince Fumihito said it was important for the money issues to be dealt with before they got together.

    Princess Mako will reportedly forego a traditional lump-sum payment of up to 150 million yen ($1.3m), which is normally gifted to a member of the royal family upon their departure from the household.

    She is also expected to skip the usual rites associated with a royal family wedding. If she skips both the payment and the rites, it will make her the first female member of the Japanese royal family to do so.

    Under Japanese law, female imperial family members forfeit their status upon marriage to a “commoner” although male members do not.