By Rajesh Heard of those ‘rare masterpieces’ that God decides to endow us with only once in many many years? Yes, that’s what we call Alka Yagnik—A true blue melody queen who rocked the 80s, 90s and 2000s in Bollywood with her immaculate voice. The singer, who came at a time when Bollywood was saturated with songs by the Mangeshkar sisters, soon became the voice of the new breed of actresses and shot to ...

By Rosey After giving up L.A. and acting for New York and, well, we're not sure what yet, Amanda Bynes still managed to get the world watching, just by behaving a little...strangely, Not to mention by tweeting up a torrid storm. But the Internet isn't the only entity paying close attention to Bynes. Her West Coast-based family is watching, too. 5 reasons why Drake should totally date Amanda Bynes. A source ...

By  Bassam Javed It all started in 1939 when Lord Linlithgow, the British Viceroy, declared that India had officially entered into World War II. This war proclamation was done without taking Congress or the Muslim League into confidence. Later, when he talked to political parties on the issue, he failed to garner Congress and Muslim League’s support for the war effort. Britain, to win support of these two m ...

By Mariya Karimjee For laborers who tear the world's ships apart, death comes in many forms Gaddani is a three-dimensional maze of hazards, as chaotic as a major industrial site can get. Steel, in all its forms, assaults the senses. The shrieking of metal saws is punctuated by the ferocious, unnerving thump of massive slabs falling to the sand. And the whole place smells of a four-car pileup. Which is essen ...

By Shabbir H. Kazmi One completely fails to understand why installing a “caretaker” is taking such an extraordinarily long time to be installed to oversee fair, free and transparent general elections in Pakistan? There is a growing perception that ‘Too many hands are spoiling the curry’. One also wonders why no consensus can be developed on a person in a country that has a population of nearly 200 million p ...

By Zaheerul Hassan Cold war era though ended after disintegration of Soviet Union, but pilling up of weapons has multiplied the arms race generally all over the globe. The reasons of multiplication of arm race are; capturing markets, power game and desire of getting strong hold over naturally enriched regions with a view to boost the economy. Religious and social discrimination further widens the gap betwee ...

By:M Khan Chishti The recent incident of vandalism at a predominantly Christian colony over an alleged blasphemy in Badami Bagh Lahore, startled all concerned quarters regarding possibility of reactive inter-faith clashes across the country. But fortunately, a truly prudent reaction was shown by the hapless Christian victims and their supporters, who restrained their anger simply to protest demonstrations. ...

By Max Fisher Buried several hundred pages into a new World Economic Forum report on global tourism, past the sections on air travel infrastructure and physician density (by which they mean the number of physicians per capita, not the mass-per-cubic-meter of individual doctors), are some very interesting numbers. The WEF has compiled survey data from 140 countries estimating the attitude of each countries’ ...