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12:36Amrit Kaur lands her first leading film role in the queer, Bollywood-inspired The Queen of My DreamsFor Fawzia Mirza, making The Queen of My Dreams her feature film debut was cathartic."It saved my life," said the writer-director.The film, which began its life as an art installation and then a ...

After senior journalist Nikhil Wagle was attacked by BJP workers as he headed to the ‘Nirbhay Bano’ meet at Nilu Phule auditorium in the city on Friday evening, several of his lady colleagues especially from MVA, also suffered injuries in a similar attack on them. NCP's Supriya Sule has ...

Warning: This story contains distressing details:Relatives of the London, Ont., Muslim family struck down by a white nationalist on June 6, 2021, are describing their deep pain and loss at his sentencing hearing that began Thursday, with the 23-year-old among those in court listening to victim impact statements."The offender didn't just take lives. He took ...

China has a gender crisis. The country has a huge surplus of men – around 722 million compared to 690 million women in 2022. This is largely because of sex-selective abortions linked to China’s one-child policy, which ended in 2015.Though popular belief is that the policy was strictly enforced, ...

Islamabad-based NGO records 2,227 cases of child sexual abuse in the country between January and June.Islamabad, Pakistan – An average of 12 children per day – or one every two hours – were subjected to sexual abuse in Pakistan in 2023, a report by a nongovernmental organisation says. In ...

Suniel Shetty didn’t want to star in the 1997 war drama Border, helmed by JP Dutta. The reason for his apprehension about doing the film was not its story or his role in it, but he simply didn’t want to work with Dutta. Recently, Shetty recalled his experience of ...

ISLAMABAD: Former Pakistan PM Imran Khan accused authorities on Friday of mentally, physically and sexually torturing his chief of staff and top former aide Dr Shahbaz Gill in custody following his arrest last week on sedition charges. He also announced a rally in Islamabad on Saturday in support of ...

The regulating of social media after the future Chief Justice of India Surya Kant was criticised for indicting former BJP spokesperson Nupur Sharma for her blasphemous statements of the holy Prophet of Islam is a direct outcome of vituperative speech. The apex court bench comprising Justices Surya Kant and ...

Earlier this month, on March 5, Fahad Shah, the editor-in-chief of news website The Kashmir Walla, was arrested for a third time in just over a month, hours after getting bail in another case. Over the course of six weeks, Shah has been given bail twice. Each time, however, ...

New Delhi, India – Just before the start of the India-Pakistan T20 World Cup cricket match in Dubai on Sunday, the Indian team took a knee in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement. India lost the match, handing Pakistan its first win against the arch rival at ...