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  • Tickled pink by Jaipur

    En route to our accommodation, while looking around Jaipur city, I felt a serious dissonance between the imagined and actual reality of the place...

    Closing the eyes took me back to the glory days of Jaipur; it was as if I was witnessing a documentary on Rajasthan...

  • Jaipur royal family celebrates birth of heir

    UMERKOT: The royal family of Jaipur celebrated the birth of the heir to the 26th Rana of Dhatt Hamir Singh, at a feast known as Rehan held at Rana Jagir here on Monday...

    Head of the royal family, Thakur Man Singh — the chief Thakur of Kanota of Jaipur — attended the Rehan along with some family members and relatives...

  • Indian police arrest six after teen alleges gang-rape in Jaipur

    The 17-year-old girl told police she had travelled from her home in New Delhi to the western city of Jaipur with neighbours who had promised her work there...

    Last week three men were convicted for the gang-rape of a young Japanese woman in Jaipur, a popular tourist destination, and sentenced to 20 years in jail...

  • Weeklong cultural festival underway in Nagar

    GILGIT: The weeklong Nagar cultural festival is underway at the famous tourist point of Hoper valley with a view to revive cultural heritage of the district and boost tourism...

    “The area is one of the few places in the world, which is above glaciers...

  • Preet Nagar

    However, not many people know about the existence of Preet Nagar (now in India), a community that was set up midway between Lahore and Amritsar in 1938 by Gurbakhsh Singh, a resident of Model Town, Lahore...

    Thus in 1938, Preet Nagar — Village of Love — came into being...

  • Hunza Nagar to export 28 tons of dried apricot to Japan

    ISLAMABAD: By the end of the year Hunza Nagar, also known as “Pakistan’s organic village”, plans to export around 28 tons of dried apricot to Japan...

    The four-year project largely focuses on the apple- and apricot-producing districts of Hunza Nagar and Baltistan where farmers have been facing difficulties in collecting, processing, grading and marketing agricultural produce...

  • 20 years after Shanti Nagar

    KHANEWAL: It's a day of thanksgiving in Shanti Nagar, a village 10km southeast of Khanewal city...

    ”The total number of churches burned in Shanti Nagar alone — 13; number of schools and colleges burned — 3; the number of houses burned — 775; and shops burned down in Civil Lines, Khanewal — 10...

  • New infection cases declining in Nagar

    GILGIT: Commander FCNA Maj-Gen Ehsan Mehmood Khan along with Gilgit-Baltistan chief secretary, top civil and military officials visited the Nagar district to review Covid-19 situation...

    Nagar deputy commissioner Mohammad Shahrukh Cheema briefed the delegation about the ongoing efforts to contain Covid-19 in the district...

  • PTI admits defeat in Nagar by-poll

    GILGIT: The ruling Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf on Monday admitted its candidate’s defeat in the Nagar by-election on Sunday, and said the polling was held in a transparent, free, fair and peaceful manner...

    Finance minister Javed Ali Manwa said GB government fulfilled its promise to conduct the by-election in Nagar in a transparent way...

  • Calls to protect sex workers as Mumbai’s red-light industry goes underground

    MUMBAI: Police crackdowns and higher rents are driving Mumbai’s commercial sex industry out of traditional red-light areas and underground, with calls on Friday from social workers to boost efforts to ensure sex workers’ lives are not put at risk...

    The move from the traditional red-light district has come as industries including financial services moved north due to soaring real-estate prices but raised fears about protecting sex...

  • How technology killed historic red-light district

    LAHORE: Pakistan’s oldest red light district was for centuries a hub of traditional erotic dancers, musicians and prostitutes — Pigalle with a Mughal twist, deep in the heart of vibrant Lahore...

    Dozens of escort services with online bookings claim to serve thousands of clients in Karachi, Lahore and Islamabad — some even in Dubai and Singapore...

  • Police make formal request for extension in Red Zone area in capital

    ISLAMABAD: The capital police on Monday formally made a request to the local administration to extend the Red Zone from Ataturk Avenue to Faisal Avenue upto Zero Point in a move to formalise a decision which the Ministry of Interior had already taken a couple of days back in the wake of the PTI’s long march...

    The letter states that the senior superintendent of police (operations) in a recent meeting had recommended extension in the...

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