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Was the PSL opening ceremony worth the watch?
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Man steals baby camel for girlfriend
According to media reports, a man in Dubai stole a newborn camel, and gave it to his girlfriend as a birthday gift. He was later arrested after making a false story about the robbery.
Earlier this month, the owners of the baby camel reported to the local police that their camel was missing.
Talking about how they found the missing camel, Director of Bur Dubai Police Station, Brig Khadim said, “We searched for the baby camel but it disappeared and we were unable to find any evidence. After a few days, a man called claiming that he found the camel in front of his farm. His story wasn’t logical as the the two farms were three kilometres apart and the newborn camel wouldn’t have been able to walk this distance,”
The director further added, “The thief broke into the farm and found the newborn camel. He carried the camel and escaped. The pair didn’t know how to look after the camel and decided to create a fake story of finding the camel.”
Meanwhile, during the interrogation the thief admitted to stealing the baby camel.
The camel has been given back to the owners and the police have arrested the suspect along with his girlfriend on charges of “theft and making a false statement”.
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PSL 6 kicks off with a star studded opening ceremony
The opening ceremony of PSL season 6 was held in National Stadium Karachi, which was reportedly recorded in Istanbul. The ceremony started with the National Anthem followed by performances from Atif Aslam, rapper Imran Khan and Humaima Malik alongside the PSL 2021 anthem stars — Naseebo Lal, Aima Baig, and Young Stunners.
It was Atif Aslam’s debut performance in an opening ceremony of PSL.
Addressing the opening ceremony PCB’s chairman Ehsan Mani said, “This year’s PSL is being played in only Karachi and Lahore and due to coronavirus 7,500 people will be able to [attend matches in] Karachi and 5,500 in Lahore,” He also thanked the fans for making PSL Pakistan’s “biggest brand”.
Here’s how Pakistani Twitter reacted to the opening ceremony :
After the opening ceremony, the first match of the tournament was played between the defending champions Karachi Kings and Quetta Gladiators, which was won by Karachi Kings by seven wickets.
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‘Actors should get paid for reruns’, says Mikaal Zulfiqar
Mikal Zulfiqar calls for a movement to pay actors for reruns after watching his hit drama serial Diyar-e-Dil being televised again.
“Actors should get paid for reruns. It’s unfair. Start a movement!,” the actor expressed his opinion.
Taking to Instagram stories, Zulfiqar shared a picture from one of the scenes of the drama and wrote: “Hum TV is airing Diyar-e-Dil for the umpteenth time.”
In another story, the actor said: “If only we got paid for reruns. would never have to work another day in life.”
Yasir Hussain also took to Instagram and wrote: “Shukar hai khuda ka kisi senior actor ne ye bat keh hi di. Mikaal Zulfiqar aap chah gaye hain.”
Meanwhile, the famous drama is a Hum TV production that portrays Pakistan from a realistic point of view. The story highlights the honour and obedience one practises towards their parents as well as the importance of family and the age-old eastern culture of close-knit families. The drama is set in Khaplu Palace, Gilgit.
Farhat Ishtiaq’s powerful story shows us the real jageedar (landlord) of Pakistan. One of the main characters in the show, Agha Jaan, his role is played wonderfully by Abid Ali. He played a hard-working landlord, who has worked his way up the ladder of success.
The cast of the drama is strong and the acting definitely makes the serial worth a watch. With names such as Maya Ali (Faarah Wali Khan), Osman Khalid Butt (Wali Suhaib Khan), Hareem Farooq (Arjumand), Sanam Saeed (Ruhina), Mikaal Zulfiqar (Behroze Bakhtiyar Khan), Ali Rehman Khan (Suhaib Bakthiyar Khan) and Ahmad Zeb (Moeez Tajamul), one can expect nothing less than brilliant acting. Farhat Ishtiaq has managed to give each of her characters the luxury of telling their own story in their own way.
Diyar-e-Dil was developed by Hum TV’s senior producer Momina Duraid of MD Productions, the channel hired the award-winning director Haseeb Hassan to direct the series.
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Virat Kohli opens up about his battle with depression
In a recent podcast with Mark Nicholas, Indian captain Virat Kohli opened up about his battle with depression. Virat’s performance was disastrous during India’s 2014 tour of England. He only scored 134 runs in five Tests, which made him feel like the “loneliest guy in the world”.
Talking about suffering from depression, Kohli said, “I did. It’s not a great feeling when you wake up knowing that you won’t be able to score any runs, and I think all batsmen have felt that at some stage or the other, where you’re not in control of anything at all. And I just couldn’t understand at all how to get over it.”
Looking back at his difficult phase, the Indian captain said, “I think that when you look back at a very difficult phase, you realise that you had to go through that phase fully to be able to understand what’s wrong and rectify it and move forward, and just open yourself up for change, accept that there are things that are going wrong. But that was a phase where I literally couldn’t do anything to overturn what I was going through and it was tough.”
He continued, “I felt like I was the loneliest guy in the world. And that’s what happens, you can really push yourself into a downward spiral, where you feel like you’re going further down with each day that passes. But when things turn around, you feel that maybe I was being too harsh on myself, I was putting myself down way more than what was required for me to change. So now I understand with years passing by, that there’s a line that needs to be drawn and beyond that line, if you’re going downwards, it’s absolutely not required.”
Kohli also revealed how Sachin Tendulkar’s advice helped him. “I did have a chat with him about the mental side of things as well and the thing that he told me was, in cricket what he experienced was if you are going through a strong negative feeling and if that is coming into your system regularly, it is best to let it pass. If you start fighting that feeling, it grows stronger. So, that is the advice I took on board and my mindset really opened up from then on.”
During the podcast, Virat also praised his wife Anushka Sharma by calling her his, “Pillar of Strength” and added that no one understands him better than her.
Last month, Anushka Sharma and Virat Kohli welcomed their baby girl, Vamika.
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Harry and Meghan make final split with British royal family
Prince Harry and his wife Meghan have made a final split with the British royal family, telling Queen Elizabeth that they will not be returning as working members of monarchy, Buckingham Palace said on Friday.
According to Reuters, Harry and Meghan sent shockwaves through the monarchy in January 2020 by suddenly announcing they were splitting from the family and embarking on a new future across the Atlantic – one of the most extraordinary royal exits in decades.
That split has now been formalised after discussions with the 94-year-old Queen Elizabeth: Harry and Meghan will lose their treasured royal patronages which revert to the queen and will be distributed among other family members.
“The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have confirmed to Her Majesty The Queen that they will not be returning as working members of The Royal Family,” the Palace said.
“While all are saddened by their decision, the Duke and Duchess remain much loved members of the family.”
The split amounts to an abdication from the royal family whose senior members such as the queen have long prioritised duty and service above personal wishes.
The pair, who said they would remained committed to their service to Britain, will break their silence on the royal split — cast by British newspapers as “Megxit” — in an interview with Oprah Winfrey next month.
When they announced their intention to carve out a “progressive new role” away from stifling media intrusion in 2020, they said they wanted to become financially independent but also honour their duties to the queen and their official patronages of charities and organisations close to their hearts.
Those patronages have now gone. Queen Elizabeth, whose 99-year-old husband, Prince Philip, is currently in hospital in London, took a firm line.
“The Queen has written confirming that in stepping away from the work of the royal family it is not possible to continue with the responsibilities and duties that come with a life of public service,” the Palace said.
The pair will lose their associations with The Royal Marines, RAF Honington, Royal Navy Small Ships and Diving as well as with The Queen’s Commonwealth Trust, The Rugby Football Union, The Rugby Football League, and The Royal National Theatre.
Through a spokesman, Harry and Meghan said that they remained committed to service.
“We can all live a life of service. Service is universal, the spokesman said.
“The Duke and Duchess of Sussex remain committed to their duty and service to the UK and around the world, and have offered their continued support to the organisations they have represented regardless of official role.”
Meanwhile, their decision may have left many displeased but the one person in the family who understood their need to step back was Princess Anne.
Harry, 36, and Meghan, 39, moved with their son Archie to Southern California to live a more independent life and escape the British media. They announced on Sunday that they were expecting their second child.
Harry is the second son of Prince Charles, heir to the throne, and his first wife Diana, who died in a Paris car crash in 1997 while being chased by paparazzi.
It is pertinent to mention here that Harry and Meghan are expecting their first child. The couple shared this news on Valentine’s Day.
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Iqrar ul Hassan defends Maulana Tariq Jamil’s upcoming fashion brand
According to reports, religious scholar Maulana Tariq Jamil is launching his own clothing brand. The news of the launch of his clothing brand received mixed reactions from the masses with some people criticising Maulana Tariq Jamil for launching his own brand being a religious cleric.
TV anchor, Iqrar ul Hassan, has defended Maulana Tariq Jamil’s decision of launching a clothing brand by saying, “It is learned that Maulana Tariq Jamil or his son has started a clothing brand. Trade is also Sunnah and there is no problem in it according to Shariah.”
He concluded by saying: “I offer my heartfelt congratulations and best wishes to them and ask the critics to come up with a logical or shar’i argument or remain silent.”
According to some reports, a LinkedIn page with the name of “MTJ – Tariq Jamil” has been created for the soon-to-be-launched brand.
According to the brand’s LinkedIn page, “MTJ being supervised directly by Maulana, is dedicated to weave people’s beliefs and convictions into reality. Provides a garment shopping platform to discover and re-associate with that lost identity that is ingrained in all of us.”
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Scientists achieve real-time communication with people during lucid dreams
Scientists have made a new breakthrough on a different front called the hallucinatory world inside dreams.
A team of researchers have achieved to do real-time dialogue with people while they were lucid dreaming. Lucid dreaming is also known as ‘interactive dreaming’.
The participants in the study were able to correctly respond to questions, like basic arithmetics. It is noteworthy that the participants were in deep sleep while they answered these questions.
It is “a relatively unexplored communication channel that could enable a new strategy for the empirical exploration of dreams”, said the researchers’ team.
“There are studies of lucid dreamers communicating out of dreams, and also remembering to do tasks. There’s a fairly limited amount of research on the stimuli going into lucid dreams,” said Karen Konkoly, a PhD student at Northwestern University.
“One thing that surprised us is that you could just say a sentence to somebody, and they could understand it just as it actually is,” she added.
The researchers experimented on 36 volunteers in laboratories located in the United States, France, Germany, and the Netherlands to enter the lucid state in which the person was aware that they are in a dream.
The participants had entered rapid-eye-movement (REM) when electrodes were placed next to their eyes, on the scalps, and their chins. From brainwaves activity and eyeball movement, sleep experts can determine if a person is sleeping.
These eye signals along with facial contortion were used as a means of communication during sleep sessions.
During sleep, the researchers asked 19-years-old American participants to subtract six out of eight while he was sleeping, and he correctly answered: “two” with two eye movements from left to right.
“It’s amazing to sit in the lab and ask a bunch of questions, and then somebody might actually answer one. It’s such an immediately rewarding type of experiment to do. You don’t have to wait to analyze your data or anything like that. You can see it right there while they’re still sleeping,” said a researcher, namely, KonKoly.
Moreover, many participants were able to recall the interactions with the researchers after they woke up, with individuals reporting that the prompts sounded like a voiceover narrator or a radio speaker that was clearly coming from outside of their dream.
The team plans to take this study further with more experiments that will analyse the possibilities of two-way communication with lucid dreamers.
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Man pushes pregnant wife off cliff for insurance money
Turkish police have arrested a man who pushed his pregnant wife off a cliff for insurance money two years ago.
As per reports, Hakan Aysal tried to claim his wife’s life insurance money. He took out loans in her name. The couple was on a holiday in Butterfly Valley in Mugla, Turkey when Aysal pushed his wife off a 1,000-foot cliff. The 40-year-old was subsequently arrested for the murder of his wife Semra Aysal and their unborn child.
According to prosecutors, Semra, 32, was seven months pregnant at the time of the incident, in 2018. Semra, along with the unborn child, died at the moment after the fall.
In the indictment prepared for the crime of “deliberate murder” against the husband, it stated he planned the ordeal in order to get the guarantee of £40,865 from insurance. The couple reportedly stayed on top of the cliff for three hours so that the husband could make sure no one was around.
Aysal reportedly made the insurance claim shortly after his wife’s death, “but it was declined when news of the investigation was unveiled.”
In a video interview, the court heard from the victim’s brother, Naim Yolcu, who said: “When we went to the Forensic Medicine Institute to get the body, Hakan was sitting in the car.
“My family and I were destroyed, but Hakan did not even appear sad.”
In a statement carried by The Sun, Aysal denied killing his wife, saying: “After taking a photo, my wife put the phone in her bag. Later she asked me to give her the phone. I got up and then heard my wife scream behind me when I walked a few steps away to get the phone from her bag. When I turned back, she was not there. I did not push my wife.”