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A packed musical night and ‘Kamli’ discussion mark the festival’s final stretch KARACHI: The 30th day of the 39-day World Culture Festival at the Arts Council of Pakistan, Karachi, concluded with Mega Musical Concert 3.0 and a session with creators of film Kamli. The concert marked Meesha Shafi’s return to Karachi’s stage after a long […]
Hawaldar Maqbool Ahmed and Inamullah also took bronze medals in masters and seniors event, respectively Pakistani athletes with their bronze medals at World Fitness Challenge and Bodybuilding Championship. PHOTO COURTESY: YOUSAF ANJUM LAHORE: Pakistan won three bronze medals in the World Fitness Challenge and Bodybuilding Championship held in the city of Khobar, Saudi Arabia. Pakistan […]
Muhammad Waseem with his World Boxing Association World Gold title belt. PHOTO COURTESY: MUHAMMAD WASEEM KARACHI: Pakistan’s Muhammad Waseem won his World Boxing Association Gold World Bantamweight title against Thai boxer Jakrawut Majungoen in 12-round bout at Garrison Sports Complex Lahore on Saturday night. Waseem brought the IBC Fight for Glory event to Lahore, and […]
The 1988 Olympic gold medallist also won silver medals for England at the 1986 World Cup Imran Sherwani. PHOTO: Britain Hockey BENGALURU: Imran Sherwani, who sparkled with two goals in Britain’s 3-1 field hockey final against West Germany at the 1988 Olympics in Seoul, has died aged 63, his family announced on Thursday. Sherwani’s second […]
It was at a culinary competition in Karachi in June this year that I first stumbled across purdah biryani. Biryani hidden behind a veil of baked dough. “It’s called purdah moti biryani! Don’t forget the moti [pearls] in my biryani,” the woman at the stall, Chef Tabinda Qayyum, quickly corrected me when I inquired about […]
Opus 4.5 delivers state-of-the-art results in coding tasks, tool-use evaluations, general reasoning tests Anthropic has introduced Opus 4.5, the latest and final release in its 4.5 series of AI models. The rollout follows earlier launches of Sonnet 4.5 in September and Haiku 4.5 in October. The company says Opus 4.5 delivers state-of-the-art results across several […]
Ingredients -K&N’s Fiery Fingers (20-25 pieces) -Tortilla sheets (6-7) -Salsa sauce (1 cup) -Salsa (1½ cup) -Sweet corn (1 cup) -Sour cream (1 cup) -Jalapeños (as required; chopped) -Coriander (as required; chopped) Method 1. Toast tortilla sheets from each side for a minute. 2. Fry K&N’s Fiery Fingers as per instructions on pack. 3. On […]
LONDON: A new episode of the Beatles Anthology, 30 years after the original landmark series, shows the impact on Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr of being in the biggest rock band in history, its writer and director said. The original eight-part documentary, broadcast in 1995, spanned the band’s gritty early days in Liverpool […]
LOS ANGELES: For Oscar-winning actor Ke Huy Quan, Disney’s animated buddy cop comedy, Zootopia 2, has a healthy message about the importance of confiding in others for emotional support. Quan, who voices Gary De’Snake — a pit viper determined to help his family — told Reuters, “I grew up in a very traditional Chinese family and […]
Almaty museum keeps alive the story of how banned Western music travelled through Soviet homes ALMATY: For two decades, Andrei Klimenko has been amassing a collection of Soviet-era reel-to-reel tape recorders for a small museum he runs in Almaty, Kazakhstan’s largest city. Western music was officially banned in the Soviet Union but enjoyed widespread popularity, […]
