MOSCOW: A new Russian film aimed at a youth audience reinvents classic novelist Nikolai Gogol as a gothic-style detective who battles dark supernatural forces to solve a series of ritual murders...
Critics have queried the lashings of eyeliner, plumped-up lips and lack of historical rigour, while the makers say the film will breathe new life into the 19th-century writer’s works for today’s school pupils
One of India's most senior lawyers has been ordered to study condom and other contraceptive packets to determine if their pictures are too racy and should be banned, according to reports Wednesday...
Additional Solicitor General Maninder Singh must spend six weeks poring over photographs – often of scantily clad women or couples in steamy embraces – promoting the products after the Supreme Court said they may breach India's tough...
LAHORE: A video of a bear shaking his head side-to-side and pacing around inside a cage that surfaced a few days ago on social media, causing concern among animal rights activists, was of the Bahria Orchard, a housing scheme which has its own zoo, it transpired...
Many other animal rights activists had also shared the video clip and expressed their concerns about the well-being of the animal...
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court on Thursday issued a formal notification regarding removal of district and sessions judge Arshad Malik from service...
The ex-judge had convicted former prime minister Nawaz Sharif in a reference of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB), while acquitting him in another and was later found involved in a video tape scandal...
LAHORE: The Punjab Auqaf department on Sunday suspended the manager of historic Masjid Wazir Khan after Chief Minister Usman Buzdar took notice of a music video shot on the mosque premises and sought a report from the minister concerned and the department’s secretary...
Actress Saba Qamar and singer Bilal Saeed are facing a storm of criticism after it emerged that they had shot a video inside the historic mosque...
A district court in Lahore on Friday cancelled arrest warrants for actor Saba Qamar and singer Bilal Saeed in a case pertaining to the alleged desecration of Wazir Khan mosque...
The two became the centre of criticism last year in August after it emerged that they had shot footage inside the historic mosque while working on the video of a song...
LAHORE: An anti-terrorism court on Tuesday marked the attendance of former prime minister Imran Khan through a video link and extended his interim pre-arrest bail in two cases of violence and attacks on police teams outside Zaman Park...
He requested the court to mark the attendance of Khan through video link...
Depicting Lahore in images is an old practice and its early patterns could be found in the miniature paintings of the Mughal era...
Lahore, being the cultural hub, played a vital role in the arts, literature and culture in the mid-20th century; especially, visual art was inspired by the rich panoramic beauty of the walled city and life around its 13 gates, so an exclusive genre of cityscape came into existence, as early as the...
While the lyrics and music are Uzair's, the video, set in the ‘good old times’, is creatively directed by his elder brother Yasir Jaswal whose directorial debut film Jalebi came out a few months ago...
Kicking off with a goofy Uzair delivering pizza to Osman, the video follows the tried-and-tested formula of different amusing scenes on television, which are viewed by a very puzzled Osman...
LAHORE: Singer Saira Arshad, sister of famous singer Humera Arshad, launched a video to pay a tribute to the martyrs of the Army Public School, Peshawar, at the Lahore Press Club on Tuesday...
The video is based on the APS children who were martyred in terror attack...
KARACHI: The Pakistan Rangers, Sindh, on Tuesday asked the home department to take measures for the installation of a biometric verification system and a video surveillance of every polling station in the Azizabad constituency of NA-246 to ensure “free, fair and transparent” election on April 23...
An Indian ruling party politician has been left red-faced after a video of him urinating in public went viral on World Toilet Day, despite government efforts to stop people relieving themselves in the open...
BRUSSELS: Belgian prosecutors on Thursday launched a fresh appeal for help to find the suspected surviving attacker in last month’s Brussels airport bombings, the so-called “man in the hat,” releasing a video of his escape route...
The newly released police video shows the suspect, wearing a hat and a light-coloured jacket, fleeing the airport’s departure hall after the bombs went off at 07:58 am on March 22...
After the two women rubbed Kim’s face with a liquid later identified as VX nerve agent, video footage showed that Chang and Mr Y had changed their shirts and ditched their caps and backpacks...
Aisyah’s lawyer, Gooi Soon Seng, told reporters before the trial that she was recruited in early January by a North Korean man known to her only as James to star in what he said were video prank shows...
BEIJING: Chinese internet users bombarded government social media accounts on Wednesday with thousands of anti-Islamic messages in response to unverified videos showing rioting involving Muslims...
Online attacks on Chinese Muslim minorities have surged in recent years, with commenters directing angry screeds at both the Hui and the Uighur minority groups in the country’s north and far west