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  • Wedding hall admin ‘disallows suspicious Nikah’

    KASUR: A would-be groom, along with around hundred guests, had to leave a wedding hall without the Nikah ceremony on Sunday after they failed to establish before its administration that the girl to become bride was not a minor...

    City police got a tip-off that a minor girl was going to be married to a man thrice her age to settle a loan at a wedding hall on Khara Road, sources said...

  • 14 killed in suicide attack outside Kabul wedding hall: officials

    A suicide attacker blew himself up outside a wedding hall in Kabul killing at least 14 people, officials said on Thursday, in an apparent attempt to strike a political gathering under way inside...

    Supporters of Atta Mohammad Noor, the powerful governor of the northern province of Balkh and a vocal critic of Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, had been holding an event inside the hall at the time of the blast...

  • Wedding hall nuisance

    WILL the government or the Rangers take notice of the Lawyer’s Club wedding hall situated at Clifton Block 2? It has made residents’ lives miserable...

    Daily at night time music is blasting out at full volume, sometimes till 4...

  • Air raid at wedding hall kills 40 in Yemen

    SANAA: At least 40 people were killed when a wedding hall in southwest Yemen was bombarded on Monday in a suspected Saudi-led coalition air strike, medics and witnesses said...

    “The bodies of 31 people, including children, have been taken to a hospital in Mokha,” said a medical source, who later raised to 40 the death toll at the hall in the Red Sea city...

  • Weather vane 'stolen' from Karachi's Frere Hall, Chief Secretary takes notice

    KARACHI: Chief Secretary Sindh Siddique Memon on Wednesday took notice of 'theft' of a rooster-shaped weather vane which used to sit atop Karachi landmark Frere Hall...

    Chief Secretary spokesman Naukhaiz Anwar Siddiqi said Memon has also ordered Karachi Commissioner and Karachi Municipal Corporation Administrator Shoaib Siddiqui to submit a report on the incident within two days...

  • 60 Hindu couples tie the knot at Karachi mass wedding

    KARACHI: Drumbeats greeted a throng of relatives as around 60 Hindu couples tied the knot at a mass wedding at the YMCA Lawns on Sunday...

    A similar story could be heard by most of the families standing beside their daughters or sons, a story of being unable to afford the wedding...

  • CAA barred from running wedding halls on Karachi airport premises

    KARACHI: The Supreme Court on Tuesday directed the director general of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) to appear before it along with details of alleged allotment of a piece of land near Karachi airport to private persons by the Sindh Board of Revenue (BoR) despite the fact that it was earlier allotted to the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) for building a new terminal...

    While expressing resentment over the CAA for running...

  • 72 Hindu couples tie the knot at mass wedding in Karachi

    KARACHI: As many as 72 Hindu couples joined in matrimony during a mass wedding ceremony organised by the Pakistan Hindu Council (PHC) at the Railway Ground here on Sunday evening...

    Every year, for the last 14 years, MNA Dr Ramesh Kumar Vankvani, who is also the PHC patron-in-chief, has been organising mass weddings for poor Hindu couples who cannot afford a big wedding for themselves on the their own...

  • SC orders demolition of over 35 wedding halls built on residential land in Karachi

    KARACHI: The Supreme Court has ordered the demolition of over 35 wedding halls on Korangi Road as it held that these structures were built on the land meant for residential purposes...

    The apex court dismissed two applications moved by the owners of the wedding halls, situated near Korangi Crossing, against its earlier orders and ruled that the land was liable to be reverted back to its original residential use...

  • Royal Shakespeare Company founder Peter Hall dies

    LONDON: British director Peter Hall, who founded the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1960 and is credited with the boom of post-war British theatre, has died at the age of 86, the National Theatre said on Tuesday...

    Actors Vanessa Redgrave and Patrick Stewart led the tributes to Hall, the son of a railway stationmaster who also worked with Judi Dench and Anthony Hopkins in a career spanning more than five decades...

  • Marriage hall owner held for ignoring dengue measures

    LAHORE: A team of the City District Government of Lahore’s (CDGL) health wing on Monday raided a marriage hall in Samanabad and got its owner arrested for not following anti-dengue regulations...

    Action, according to a spokesman, was taken against Dreamland Marriage Hall after the team found dengue larvae there...

  • Man goes to jail for entering Senate Hall

    ISLAMABAD: A man arrested two days ago for trespassing on the Senate Hall, at the National Assembly, was sent to jail on a 14-day judicial remand on Wednesday...

    He spent some time asking around for Senator Shah but was caught trying to enter the Senate Hall...

  • Rupert Murdoch to marry Jerry Hall

    LONDON: Media mogul Rupert Murdoch will marry actress and former supermodel Jerry Hall, the couple announced in British newspaper The Times on Tuesday, after a four-month romance...

    The couple got engaged over the weekend in Los Angeles, where they attended the 73rd Golden Globes awards gala — although Hall was not pictured sporting a ring on the red carpet...

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