MUMBAI (Web Desk / AFP) – Indian censor board on Sunday cleared ‘Udta Punjab’, a Bollywood movie depicting drug addiction in Punjab state, with 13 cuts under the ‘A’ category, reported The Indian Express. The announcement was made by the board’s chairman Pahlaj Nihalani. “We have today cleared Udta Punjab ...

LONDON: Sri Lanka coach Graham Ford called for all no-ball decisions to be taken by the third umpire as his side reacted to an incorrect call in the third Test against England with an extraordinary flag protest at Lord’s on Sunday. At stumps, Sri Lanka were 32 without loss in ...

ISLAMABAD: The suspension of Comsats Institute of Information Technology (CIIT) Pro-Rector Haroon Rashid – whose doctoral thesis was found to be up to 72pc plagiarised – has stirred debate over the future of the National Testing Service (NTS), of which Mr Rashid was CEO. Mr Haroon was suspended by the ...

LAHORE (Reuters) – A group of Pakistani clerics has issued a fatwa, or religious ruling, declaring “honour killing” over perceived damage to a family’s reputation against the teaching of Islam, and anyone who carries out such an attack a heretic. Hundreds of Pakistanis, the vast majority women and girls, are murdered ...

QUETTA: A police officer serving with Balochistan’s counter-terrorism department (CTD) was gunned down on Sariab Road here on Monday, officials said. Official sources said gunmen riding motorcycles opened fire at Station House Officer (SHO) Shabir Ahmed in Shafi Colony area of Sariab Road. The victim was shot in the head ...

A US drone has struck a vehicle in southern Yemen, leaving two people dead and another injured, security sources say. The drone targeted the car in Yemen’s southeastern province of Shabwa on Sunday night. According to residents, the car was totally destroyed and no one escaped from the attack. A military ...

PESHAWAR: The Fata Reforms Committee has proposed a set of “parallel and concurrent” political, administrative, judicial and security reforms, as well as a massive reconstruction and rehabilitation programme, to prepare the Federally Administered Tribal Areas for a ‘five-year transition period’ for merger into Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, it has been revealed. “People ...

A number of US lawmakers have suggested a move towards tougher gun control laws in America in the wake of Sunday’s mass shooting in Orlando, Florida. Democratic Senator Robert Casey says he will announce a bill on Monday that would ban anyone convicted of a misdemeanor hate crime from owning ...

Three people, including a man on his wheelchair, have been killed as a result of gun violence in New York City. Eric Oliver, a 31-year-old man, who became paralyzed in another shooting 10 years ago, was fatally shot in the Bronx late Saturday during a night of mayhem across the ...

The US Navy’s USS Mississippi nuclear-powered submarine has arrived in South Korea as part of its maiden voyage to the Indo-Asia-Pacific region, the US military says. The US Navy’s 7th fleet announced the vessel’s arrival in the Busan port in a statement on Monday, adding that the Virginia-class attack submarine ...