Author Archives: Dunya

Paris Fashion Week

Lebanese actress Razane Jammal poses during a photocall before the Spring/Summer 2017 women’s ready-to-wear collection for fashion house.  French music producer and former model Caroline de Maigret poses during a photocall. A model presents a creation by German designer Karl Lagerfeld as part of his Spring/Summer 2017 Socialites Haya and Sama Abu Khadra pose during Paris fashion week Model and ...

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Shutdown keeps normal life paralyzed in J&K

Normal life remained paralysed in India’s northern Jammu and Kashmir Kashmir is in the middle of one of its worst unrest since July 08, following killing of Burhan Wani by security forces. Though curfew was lifted over a week ago, restrictions on assembly of people under Section-144 of the Criminal Procedure Code continue across the Valley. The separatists, who accuse ...

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British PM May says Brexit timetable important for businesses

BIRMINGHAM  – Prime Minister Theresa May said it was important to set out the timing of Britain’s exit from the European Union to reassure businesses after sterling plunged in the wake of her announcement of the deadline. “Businesses and people here in the UK want some degree of clarity as to when that timing is going to be,” she told ...

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Premiere of “The Late Bloomer” in Los Angeles

The Late Bloomer is an American comedy-drama film directed by Kevin Pollak and written by Gary Rosen, Joe Nussbaum, Paul A. Kaplan & Mark Torgove, and Kyle Cooper & Austyn Jeffs. It is based on journalist Ken Baker’s autobiographical Man Made: A Memoir of My Body. It stars Johnny Simmons, Maria Bello, Brittany Snow, Jane Lynch, J. K. Simmons, Kumail ...

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NSC of Mush era restored

Government restores National Security Council of Musharraf’s era, with slight change of name as National Security Committee, private television JAAG TV reported. Prime Minister of Pakistan will head the committee while Chairman Joint chiefs of staff committee and three services chiefs are member of it. Federal Ministers of Finance, Foreign affairs and information will be members of this National Security ...

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Apple launches Apple Pay payment service in Russia

Apple Inc launched its Apple Pay software in Russia as the U.S. technology firm extends the global reach of its payment service. Russia is the 10th country where Apple Pay has been made available, following the United States, Britain, Canada and others.   The service was first launched in 2014 and will initially operate in Russia with partners Sberbank and ...

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Dengue vaccine, 11 countries approved

Sanofi Pasteur, Sanofi’s vaccines unit, said on Tuesday that its dengue vaccine, Dengvaxia, had received market approval in eleven countries. To date the vaccine has been approved in Mexico, the Philippines, Brazil, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Paraguay, Guatemala, Peru, Indonesia, Thailand and Singapore, the statement said. Dengue fever is a mosquito-borne disease caused by four virus serotypes as categorized by ...

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Once-a-day tablet for Lung cancer

A simple once-a-day tablet that can zap killer lung cancer tumours will today be rolled out on the NHS. Tagrisso (osimertinib) was only granted a licence in February and has been hailed as a “breakthrough” drug. The once-a-day tablet is suitable for patients with non-small-cell lung cancer who have a specific mutation that means they have stopped responding to earlier ...

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Series not in danger, BCCI to NZ

New Zealand cricket has said that the BCCI has told them the series has not been cancelled yet and the visitors will go ahead with preparations for the third Test. India are leading the three-match series 2-0 with the third and final Test scheduled to start on Saturday in Indore. Fuming at what it calls the board’s defiance of its ...

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BCCI misinterpreting our email, Justice Lodha

Chief of Lodha Panel Justice RM Lodha said that panel not asked BCCI to stop funds for routine matters, only sked BCCI to stop giving large funds to State Associations. “It is clearly stated in the mail that we have told them to stop disbursing large funds to state associations. We have not told them to stop payments on routine ...

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