Category: Lifestyle

The lifestyle of millennials is underreported in our mainstream media. The Current’s lifestyle news covers social events and issues that are unique.

  • Twitter in fits with reporting over jobless people’s attack on Indian parliament

    Twitter in fits with reporting over jobless people’s attack on Indian parliament

    Two unidentified persons were detained after they jumped into the lower house of Indian Parliament chamber, while the winter session of the Parliament was underway.

    The Delhi Police also arrested two other persons – a man and a woman from outside the Parliament, for protesting with coloured smoke.
    The incident took place as the country was commemorating the attack on Indian Parliament in 2001.

    As per Indian media reports, the culprits were seated in the visitors’ gallery and hiding the canisters in their shoes. Parliamentary members told journalists that the protestors raised slogans “Dictatorship will not be accepted”.

    Parliament security staff took the duo — identified as Sagar Sharma, 25, from Lucknow, and Manoranjan D, 35, from Mysore — into custody after they were beaten by MPs, reporters said.

    Two others — Neelam Singh, 42, from Hisar in Haryana and Amol Shinde, 25, from Latur in Maharashtra — were arrested from a spot near Parliament House where they too opened smoke canisters soon after the incident in Lok Sabha.

    The breach has shocked the lawmakers and nation alike.

    But the internet’s meme brigade made the most of it. One user posted the video of parliamentarians beating up the protestor and captioned it with a laughing emoji, “Who says India doesn’t have unity”.

    A user said, “Even my mobile pattern is more secure than the Indian Parliament.”

    Several others used clips from Bollywood and other movies to mock the security of the parliament.

    While Prime Minister Narendra Modi was not in the parliament, critics lambasted his government for the lapse in security of a high-profile place like Lok Sabha.

    Another trolled the BJP parliamentarians shouting space out amid the attack of the intruders saying were they waiting for a “chota bheem” to save their day.

    However, reporting by different media outlets outside the parliament has Twitter in fits.

    Two reporters were seen fighting over the smoke canister while the third one took the benefit and ran away from the spot.

    A user mockingly suggested that these courageous reporters should be deployed on borders and the army should be given the task of reporting.

    Journalist Anil Tiwari commented that “Media students should learn from this video that besides reporting skills, surviving in the media industry may require abilities like snatching, punching, running, etc”.

    Using a Bollywood movie reference a netizen trolled the journalists fighting for a smoke canister.

    Amidst this laughing riot over the reporting, the lady reporter Pallavi Ghosh famous for her swift and aggressive reporting defended herself on Twitter by posting, “End of the day – yes the video looks funny but as a reporter on the ground my Instinct not to let go”

  • Chief Traffic Officer Amara Athar has good news for women

    Chief Traffic Officer Amara Athar has good news for women

    Amara Athar, the first woman chief traffic officer of Lahore, has announced good news for women.

    After taking over the post, she has asserted that the department’s priority will be to get more girls to ride motorcycles and increase the capacity of women drivers.

    Pointing out that traffic jams are a major problem in the city, Athar said that her aim is to improve traffic flow within limited resources.

    Who is Amara Athar?

    Amara Athar was appointed as the Chief Traffic Officer (CTO) of Lahore by Punjab government on December 12.

    The BS-19 police officer is the first woman police officer on central traffic control assignment in the provincial capital and the fourth woman police officer posted in Lahore.

    Dawn reports that according to an official, under Punjab Inspector General of Police (IGP) Dr Usman Anwar’s policy, female officers have been prioritised for field assignments to counter the “decades-old tradition of ‘male dominant’ policing in the province”.

    An official claims that while there were a number of male contenders for the top position of the Lahore traffic police, the IGP preferred a woman officer, especially after the outstanding performance of another female officer, Aysha Butt, who was posted as Gujranwala CTO who has reportedly bring about significant reforms in a short period since her appointment.

    Butt has built Pakistan’s first traffic theme park at Gujranwala with a long walking track that has traffic signs on both sides to create public awareness about traffic rules.

  • Shahnawaz given death penalty for murdering Sarah Inam

    Shahnawaz given death penalty for murdering Sarah Inam

    Sarah Inam’s husband Shahnawaz Amir, son of renowned journalist Ayyaz Amir has been sentenced to death for murdering his wife.

    Session Judge Nasir Javed announced the verdict, fining the convict Rs10 lac as well. Shahnawaz’s mother Samina Shah has been acquitted for lack of proof as compliant to the murder, reports Geo.

    Sarah’s lawyer demanded the death penalty during the November 16 hearing.

    Sarah Inam’s father talked to the media after the verdict was announced and expressed his satisfaction with the death penalty but showed his concern over his mother getting off Scott-free.

    The father was accompanied by Shaukat Mukadam, Noor Mukadam’s father and the two appealed to the Supreme Court for a logical conclusion of Noor’s case.

    Shahnawaz was arrested in September last year from his farmhouse in Islamabad. Sarah was reportedly murdered just a day after she arrived in the country from Dubai where she had been working. Her husband was initially remanded to police custody a day after his arrest and the period of his physical remand was extended several times.

    Shahnawaz’s father, Ayyaz Amir was discharged from the case and his mother Samina Shah, nominated as co-accused in the case, was granted post-arrest bail in November last year.

    The postmortem revealed that Sarah had suffered multiple head fractures leading to her death, after having been hit on the head with a dumbbell.

  • Pakistani Ambassador at UN lauded for Palestine resolution speech

    Pakistani Ambassador at UN lauded for Palestine resolution speech

    Pakistani Ambassador to the United Nations, Munir Akram, delivered a strong statement on the war that is taking place in Gaza during the 10th Emergency Special Session on December 12.

    He expressed Pakistan’s allegiance to the resolution submitted by the Arab and Islamic countries proposing an immediate humanitarian ceasefire and release of all hostages. Ambassador Munir also criticised America, one of the permanent members, for vetoing that resolution. Calling out the friend of Israel, for proposing an amendment that “condemns one side while exonerating the other”. He called it “unfair and inequitable”.

    The Pakistani ambassador reminded the world that Israel has dropped 25,000 tons of explosives on Gaza which is nearly equivalent to the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. He stressed that “Israel’s goal is not to erase Hamas, this is a war against the Palestinian people, not just to erase people but to erase the entire idea of Palestine. It is the same as racial slaughter conducted by settler colonial power in the past.”

    Munir Akram ended the speech by calling out the UN that its duty should not be “to justify the genocide that is taking place.”

    Riyad Mansour, Palestinian Ambassador to the UN, especially thanked the Pakistani Ambassador for his stance and the effective speech by calling him a lawyer of the Palestinian cause in the tenth emergency session. He said that Ambassador Munir Akram shredded to pieces the amendments proposed in favour of perpetrators. He praised the Pakistani Ambassador stating that due to his efforts “even one of the opposing countries voted in favour of the resolution today”.

    Member states then adopted a resolution demanding an “immediate humanitarian ceasefire”, the immediate and unconditional release of all hostages and well as “ensuring humanitarian access”.

    It passed with a large majority of 153 in favour and 10 against, with 23 abstentions.

  • Woman finds ring worth more than 22 crore in an unusual place

    Woman finds ring worth more than 22 crore in an unusual place

    A woman lost a diamond ring worth more than $800,000 or Rs 22 crore, 45 lac, 34 thousand and 480 rupees at the Ritz Hotel in Paris, kicking off a large search campaign by hotel and security staff.

    The ring was eventually found in a vacuum cleaner bag.

    The woman was staying at the famed Ritz Hotel when she left her ring on the nightstand in her room.
    When she returned from a morning outing, the ring was gone. Authorities were alerted, but after a search by hotel and security staff, the ring was found in a vacuum cleaner bag.

    The woman is originally from Malaysia and is currently in London where she will receive her ring soon.

  • The Current ko kis tarhan ka hona chahiye?

    The Current ko kis tarhan ka hona chahiye?

    Please fill out this survey and let us know what you want from out website.

  • Lahore High Court sets free convicts of life imprisonment in Kasur child abuse scandal

    Lahore High Court sets free convicts of life imprisonment in Kasur child abuse scandal

    Lahore High Court (LHC) on Wednesday acquitted three convicts serving life imprisonment in the Kasur child abuse scandal of 2015.

    The scandal came to light eight years ago when a gang was arrested for involvement in making videos of the sexual abuse of at least 280 children. The criminals were accused of blackmailing the families of the kids, threatening them to leak the videos unless they paid ransom.

    The acquittal of the convicts was announced by a bench of two judges, led by Justice Shehram Sarwar Chaudhry.

    One of the counsels, Abid Hussain Khichi while speaking to Dawn, said that the court had released his clients after accepting their pleas.

    According to the council, a total of six primary suspects had been implicated in the case, with three having been released earlier, while the remaining three were acquitted today.

    Khichi further explained that his clients (convicts) serving in jail have not been identified in the video examination conducted by the authorities. He also contended that certain sections of the Anti-Terrorism Act applied to the accused were not truly applicable, and the medical reports did not substantiate the presented evidence.

    The present order by the court substantiates the narrative of the lawyer.

    The three men — Haseem Amir, Wasim Sindhi, and Aleem Asif — were handed punishments in one of the nine cases police had registered against them. ATC judge Chaudhry Muhammad Ilyas had also imposed a fine of Rs300,000 on each of the three convicts.

    Ganda Singhwala police had registered a first information report against the three convicts on charges of abducting and sexually assaulting children in Kasur.

    It was reported that the men had also been blackmailing the families of the boys since 2009 and even sold video clips of the assault. In 2018, an anti-terrorism court (ATC) in Lahore sentenced the three men to life in prison after finding them guilty.

    Kasur is a district plagued by such incidents. According to a report by Pakistan Observer Kasur stood first in child sexual abuse and pornography with 298 cases out of 2275 across the country during the year 2021.

  • When will merit list of aspiring MBBS and BDS students be released?

    When will merit list of aspiring MBBS and BDS students be released?

    The final list for admission to MBBS and BDS in Punjab has been released by the University of Health Sciences on its website.

    A spokesperson for the UHS has stated that a merit list has been put up on the website, comprising 4485 candidates, reports Geo.

    UHS released a provisional merit list on December 8, after which two days were given to candidates to register any complaint via the online portal. 1159 complaints were received in 48 hours and after reviewing all of them, a final list has been released.

    A total of 3389 students will be given admission to seats available all over the province. The first merit list will be released on December 15.

  • Can still go for Hajj 2024: deadline extended, restriction on performing Hajj for someone else removed

    Can still go for Hajj 2024: deadline extended, restriction on performing Hajj for someone else removed

    Ministry of Religious Affairs and Interfaith Harmony has announced that the application submission deadline for Hajj 2024 has been extended by 10 days as the previously announced December 12 deadline expired on Tuesday (today). Now the last day is December 22, reports Geo.

    A five-year restriction on Hajj-e-Badal, the Hajj performed by a person on account of another, has been removed.

    Pilgrims who have performed Hajj in the last five years are also eligible to apply for Hajj 2024.

    The statement said that Hajj applications in the sponsorship scheme are being received on a “first come first served” basis.

    In the wake of lessening foreign exchange reserves, the government has announced that those paying their dues in dollars from abroad will be declared as “winners” without the need for balloting.

    Pakistan has secured 179,000 Hajj seats, with half reserved for private Hajj operators.

    The announcement comes after the government decided to reduce Hajj expenses by Rs100,000 with the next year’s pilgrimage set to cost Rs1,075,000 to around 89,605 Pakistanis expected to perform Hajj under the government scheme.

    Pilgrims can choose between both long and short-term packages spanning over 38 to 42 and 20 to 25 days, respectively.

    It is important to note that the extension is made as the number of applicants for government hajj scheme 2024 has been unusually low which the ministry pronounced to be “disappointing”.

  • Water theft of billions of rupees detected in Karachi

    Water theft of billions of rupees detected in Karachi

    Water theft worth billions of rupees has been detected under the Teen Hatti Bridge in Karachi. The theft was revealed in a raid conducted by Karachi Water Corporation, which found a 22-foot-deep tunnel under the bridge where water was being stolen.

    Chief Operating Officer (COO) Asadullah Khan told Geo that the tunnel is stealing water from the Rexar Line that provides water to Lyari, adding that the 33-inch line was built to provide fifty lac gallon water daily to the area. Through this line, four connections of eight inches each were taken out to steal water.