Indian police have filed a defamation case against a group of comedians accused of insulting Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the latest incident to raise fears over creative freedoms in the country...
A spokeswoman for the Mumbai police said on Friday that the force had registered a first information report against AIB over a tweet poking fun at India's leader
”Lakers great and NBA Hall of Famer Abdul-Jabbar criticised the meme in a letter on self-publishing platform Substack addressed to James, saying it implied the 36-year-old did not understand the difference between the ailments...
WASHINGTON: A lawsuit over who owns the copyright to “Happy Birthday to You” has been settled, bringing to an end a two-year legal battle over what is said to be the most widely sung tune in the English language...
The “Happy Birthday” lyrics were added later, and since then the song’s road to copyright has been windy...
Daughter of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, Maryam Nawaz, tweeted on Thursday that Sajjan Jindal is an old friend of the prime minister and there was "nothing secret about the meeting" between the two...
BEIJING: China’s President Xi Jinping on Tuesday welcomed Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir — who has been indicted for war crimes by the International Criminal Court — as an “old friend of the Chinese people”...
“You are an old friend of the Chinese people,” Xi said after shaking hands with Bashir and a procession of Sudanese government officials accompanying him...
TEL AVIV: US President Joe Biden arrived on Wednesday in Israel, which embraced him as an old friend on the first leg of a high-stakes trip dominated by efforts to bring it closer to Saudi Arabia and to persuade Washington’s Gulf allies to pump more oil...
“She’s a distiller,” said her longtime friend and neighbour, painter Tony Bachera, in describing her radiant compositions...
SEPANG (Malaysia): Red Bull’s Max Verstappen gave himself a perfect 20th birthday present by winning the last Malaysian Grand Prix on Sunday, while Lewis Hamilton stretched his Formula One world championship lead to 34 points...
Welcome to being a 20-year-old...
MOSCOW: Supporters of opposition leader Alexei Navalny rallied across Russia on Saturday, heeding his call to pressure authorities into letting him enter the presidential race with a wave of demonstrations on President Vladimir Putin’s 65th birthday...
The unusual police restraint probably reflected a desire to avoid a crackdown on Putin’s birthday...
On Shams-ur-Rahman Faruqi’s 82nd birthday, Anjuman Taraqqi-i-Urdu Hind’s research journal Urdu adab — published from Delhi under the editorship of Ather Farouqui — has published a special section on him...
Though some sources, especially online writings that are usually full of all kinds of misinformation and inaccuracies, have mentioned January 15, 1935, as his birthday, Faruqi himself in one of his writings has expressly written...
Happy Birthday to our very own Meera! We are wishing her because last week she celebrated her birthday with a fair degree of fanfare, as was shown by the media...
RAWALPINDI: Dissident PPP workers on Saturday celebrated the birthday of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto at Liaquat Bagh...
The slain PPP leader’s close aide Naheed Khan and her husband Dr Safdar Abbasi led the PPP workers in arranging the birthday function which included a musical programme...
KARACHI: Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah will perform groundbreaking of the Karachi Circular Railway (KCR) on the birthday of Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah (Dec 25) at a ceremony to be held at Wazir Mansion — the residence of the founder of the nation...
I want to perform groundbreaking of the project on the birthday of the Quaid-i-Azam and, therefore, plan should be made accordingly,” he said...
KARACHI: The singing of the national anthems of Japan and Pakistan and the Consul General of Japan in Karachi Mr Toshikazu Isomura’s speech in fluent Urdu, along with the cutting of the cake, were some of the highlights of Japanese Emperor Akihito’s 84th birthday celebrations at a local hotel here on Monday...
ON our 70th anniversary a few plain words are the best gift I can offer...
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