ISLAMABAD: Bhel puri is one of the most popular street foods in Pakistan and India...
Whether you’re having it at a stall in F-7 Markaz, at Pizza Kone in Centaurus or having it delivered from Lahore Chatkhaara in E-11, bhel puri comes in hearty portions; enough to fill you up, but light enough not to slow down your day...
Kanhaiya idolises Rohith Vemula, the Dalit student from Hyderabad who committed suicide after being hounded by a Hindutva establishment...
Vemula’s last words in his suicide note were ‘Jai Bhim’, a reference to his Dalit hero Bhim Rao Ambedkar...
When Bhimrao Ambedkar became a Buddhist, mainly to underscore the fact that he was walking away from the hierarchical Hindu fold enforced on him, he still remained a Dalit...
There are thus Sikh Dalits, Muslim Dalits, Christian Dalits and, of course, Buddhist Dalits who converted en masse under Ambedkar...
BHIM Rao Ambedkar had the antidote to quell with reason and firm argument the Sabarimala flare-up, which neither the left government in Kerala nor the centrist opposition Congress has the imagination to accept...
Ambedkar would probably counsel Hindu and Muslim women, clamouring to enter the shrine in Kerala’s thickly forested tiger sanctuary, to find something more worthwhile to do...
HYDERABAD: As the glitz and glamour of the HBL Pakistan Super League returns for an eighth edition from next week with hi-octane action across four venues, Niaz Stadium’s agonising wait for revival of national and international cricket continues...
Once an important centre for hosting international and domestic cricket as the only stadium in Sindh after Karachi’s National Stadium, Niaz Stadium now lies in ruins...
NEW DELHI: Former BCCI president Anurag Thakur on Thursday tendered a fresh “unconditional” and “unequivocal” apology in the Supreme Court, saying it was never his intention to undermine the majesty of the apex court...
Thakur, a senior BJP leader and a Member of Parliament from Hamirpur in Himachal Pradesh, was asked by the apex court on July 7 to tender an apology in explicit terms to get relief from the contempt proceedings initiated...
COLOMBO: An entertainment company owned by two Sri Lankan cricket legends apologised on Monday for an Enrique Iglesias concert where local women shed their underwear, sparking outrage from the country’s president...
Live Events, owned by Mahela Jayawardene and Kumar Sangakkara, admitted that security “failed alarmingly” and apologised for the “negative experience” during the one-hour concert in Colombo on Dec 20
ISLAMABAD: Dr Arif Alvi, convener of a parliamentary sub-committee on electoral reforms, has said that the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has been asked to release advertisements inviting tenders for purchase of electronic voting machines (EVMs)...
Talking to Dawn here on Tuesday, Dr Alvi said the ECP had been asked to release advertisements inviting two tenders for purchase of 400 and 300,000 EVMs...
ISLAMABAD: The special assistant to prime minister on aviation, Shujaat Azeem, tendered his resignation on Monday from his post, after the Supreme Court had restrained him from taking part in the sale process of Pakistan Airlines International (PIA), reported Radio Pakistan...
According to a spokesperson for the aviation division, the adviser had accepted his responsibilities in an honorary position, while not drawing salary as special...
ISLAMABAD: The counsel for Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan on Monday tendered an unconditional apology to the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) for making contentious remarks in a review application filed before the ECP but refused to submit financial accounts of the party...
PTI spokesperson Fawad Chaudhry claimed that the written apology had nothing to do with the party chief as he was not aware when the review...
Their teams spent weeks meeting local officials ahead of investment tenders due to start next month...
If this lack of clarity leads to companies withholding investment in the tenders or investing elsewhere, it could undermine the plans of Iran’s reformist President Hassan Rouhani to attract up to $185 billion from oil majors into 50 projects and increase Iranian output to 5-6 million barrels per day (bpd) from less than 4 million...
LAHORE: A Lahore High Court judge facing a reference of professional ‘misconduct’ before the Supreme Judicial Council (SJC) tendered his resignation on Tuesday citing ‘personal reasons’...
Justice Mazhar Iqbal Sidhu sent his resignation to the president, sources at the LHC confirmed to Dawn
LAHORE: Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman Shaharyar M Khan on Thursday tendered his resignation to the Patron-in-Chief of the PCB Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif during a news conference here that followed the Board of Governors (BoGs) meeting...
“I told the BoG members that I was elected as PCB chairman by them three years back, but now I have decided to abstain from candidature of PCB chairman or any other post,” maintained the...
PML-N's Javed Latif tendered an unconditional apology to Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf's Murad Saeed on Thursday for his lewd remarks regarding the latter's family...
The apology came during a session of the National Assembly
A tearful Darren Lehmann said on Thursday he would quit as coach of the scandal-tainted Australia cricket team after the fourth and final Test of the ongoing series in South Africa...
“This will be my last Test as head coach of the Australian cricket team,” Lehmann told a press conference on the eve of the match