No key, no access: Parker’s
Author: Shaistha KhanFri, 2017-03-24ID: 1490298885733945200Beg, borrow, or steal. Either way, you need a key to access Parker’s cool club. The recently opened Parker’s restaurant — with the first branch in Dubai, and the second one in Dhahran — is creating quite a buzz. The brand employs an excellent marketing strategy, which it uses to create a hype […]
Jane Austen: Events to remember on the bicentennial of her death will bring you closer to Mr. Darcy
Author: DENISE MARRAYFri, 2017-03-24ID: 1490297725713788800Have you ever been to Hampshire in England? If not there is an excellent reason to put it on your travel itinerary this year. For Hampshire is the home county of the renowned novelist Jane Austen, whose life and work is being celebrated this year on the bicentenary of her death, at just […]
Catherine expecting royal baby No. 3?
Author: ARAB NEWSFri, 2017-03-24ID: 1490297115993695000LONDON: There were no confirmations from the palace about an alleged pregnancy of Catherine, the Duchess of Cambridge, despite a new tabloid cover story claiming she is expecting her third baby. The new cover of Star announced, “Princess Kate Pregnant! Baby No. 3 Due In September!” The front of the edition even touts, […]
Brie Larson is running for president … in a movie
Author: ARAB NEWSFri, 2017-03-24ID: 1490297115953694700LOS ANGELES: Brie Larson is set to play the first woman to run to be President of the United States.The “Kong: Skull Island” star will take on the role of feminist icon Victoria Woodhull, who was the first female to run for office in American in 1872, in the forthcoming Amazon movie, according […]
‘Power Rangers’ creator hits out at Trump’s Muslim ban
Author: AFPFri, 2017-03-24ID: 1490297115903694400LOS ANGELES: Entertainment mogul Haim Saban, creator of the “Power Rangers” empire, was honored Wednesday for services to television — and used the occasion to berate President Donald Trump for his immigration policies.The 62-year-old Israeli-American billionaire, who turned the teen superhero franchise into one of the longest-running children’s shows of all time, was receiving […]
Mosul comes alive with the sound of music
Author: AFPFri, 2017-03-24ID: 1490297115853694100MOSUL, Iraq: When Daesh controlled eastern Mosul, playing music was a crime punishable by lashes. Today, music stall owner Mohammed Mohsin is making up for lost time.The Daesh’s religious police confiscated and burned his CDs after taking over the city in a lightning 2014 offensive.But Iraqi forces regained control of eastern Mosul in January […]
Photographer who captured woman in hijab ‘walking past’ at the London attack site defends her
The photograph of a hijab clad woman walking past an injured person in the recent terror attack outside the UK Parliament in London has started an intense debate on social media. Taken by Jamie Lorriman, the photograph shows the woman holding a phone as she walks on the Westminster Bridge. In the background, an injured […]
SC seeks govt response to lifetime poll ban on convicts
The Supreme Court on Friday gave the Central government a week to file their response to a plea seeking life-time ban on contesting election for those convicted of serious offences as it was told that the matter has already been referred to the constitution bench. The bench of Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justice Navin Sinha […]
Angered after he assaulted staffer with his slipper, airlines ban MP Ravindra Gaikwad
The visuals were straight from hell: An elected representative of the people pushed and shoved an airline staffer, abusing him throughout, assaulting him repeatedly with a slipper. At least three other Air India staff had to pry him away from the man he was assaulting, and convince him to come back inside the plane and […]
The quota debate: Can Telangana manage to bring in 12% reservation for Muslims and STs?
Reservation The CM has promised to move heaven and earth in order to make it happen – and he might just have to do all that. Ragamalika Karthikeyan KCR mike_0.jpg It was one of the poll promises of Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao. And while KCR has been talking about bringing in a 12% […]
