Pakistan : Grenlit Studios has acquired the rights to Shark Tank, a well-known reality television series, in this context. The launch of Shark Tank in Pakistan, according to the show’s creators Usman Malik, Rizwan Siddiqui, and Tariq Qazi, may aid in the search for a solution. Based on the Japanese show Dragon’s Den, Shark Tank premiered in the United States in 2009. The format of Shark Tank, one of the most (if not the most) internationally acclaimed business-themed series, allows aspiring and established entrepreneurs to pitch innovative business ideas to a panel of six established investors (sharks). If they decide…
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US Election 2024 In a frantic last push less than 48 hours before Election Day in the historically close campaign, Kamala Harris targets the Rust Belt, while Donald Trump heads to the biggest swing states in the United States on Sunday. More states are functionally tied in polls at this point than in any election comparable, with 75 million people having cast early ballots prior to Tuesday’s climax. According to RealClearPolitics’ polling averages, neither candidate led by more than three points in any of the seven battleground states that will determine the next president as of Saturday evening. Harris was…
Pakistan: Lahore government announced that primary schools in Lahore would be closed for a week due to record levels of pollution. This was done to avoid exposing millions of children to smog that was several times higher than what is considered to be dangerous levels. Smog, a mixture of fog and pollutants brought on by low-grade diesel fumes, smoke from seasonal agricultural burning, and winter cooling, has enveloped Lahore’s 14 million residents for days. According to data from IQAir, the air quality index, which measures a variety of pollutants, exceeded 1,000 on Saturday, well above the 300 level that is…
Intezar Hussain Panjutha, the lawyer for PTI founder Imran Khan, was reported missing on October 8 but was found last night by Punjab police, according to reports in the early hours of Sunday. The party called the development staged and demanded that a first information report (FIR) be filed against Pakistan’s Attorney General, Mansoor Usman Awan. Awan told the high court that Panjutha would be brought to court within 24 hours, implying that he knew where he was. The PTI leader was allegedly being transported when he was found by police in Attock. He was later moved to the hospital…
Iranians gathered outside the former US embassy in Tehran to commemorate the hostage crisis in 1979, which shaped relations between Washington and Tehran for decades. The Islamic revolution that toppled the Western-backed Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, led by Iran’s late supreme leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, in November 1979 sparked the hostage crisis. Khomeini-supporting students stormed the embassy and held 52 employees hostage for 444 days, demanding that Washington hand over Iran’s recently overthrown shah, who was receiving cancer treatment in the United States. Midway through the crisis in 1980, Washington officially severed ties with Tehran, and those ties have remained…
Pakistan: According to a spokesperson for the Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD), an operation in the Musakhel district of Balochistan was carried out in the early hours of Sunday. As a result, two terrorists were taken into custody and three terrorists were killed. The spokesperson claims that the CTD and law enforcement agencies received “credible information” about Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) terrorists operating in the Musakhel neighborhood of Rarhasham. In a statement, the spokesperson stated, “Forces [including] CTD, FC, and police were deployed in general area and late at night one of the deployed force contingent came across a group of 10-12…
UGANDA: Local officials said on Sunday that lightning struck a makeshift church where the Ugandan refugees were sheltering, killing at least 14 people, including several children. When a severe storm struck the area on Saturday evening, approximately fifty people sought refuge in the church of the Palabek refugee camp in northern Uganda. William Komech, the resident district commissioner for Lamwo region, told AFP that lightning struck its metal roof and killed 14 people, including five girls and nine boys between the ages of 14 and 18. He added, “Several injured people are being admitted to health facilities.” The majority of…
ISLAMABAD: In October, food prices pushed Pakistan’s annual inflation rate up to 7.2%. However, underlying inflationary pressures have continued to ease, opening the door for a significant interest rate cut at the policy meeting on Monday. The annual and monthly inflation readings have both increased, with the exception of the core inflation rate, which has decreased as a sign of easing underlying pressures. The Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) reported on Friday that inflation increased slightly in October, reaching 7.2% compared to the previous year. Both market expectations and the Ministry of Finance’s anticipated range of 6% to 7% for…
Federal Board of Revenue’s (FBR) revenue shortfall during the first four months of the fiscal year, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has asked Pakistan to implement additional revenue-generating measures. Pakistan’s request to lower the FBR’s tax collection targets was also rejected by the IMF. Express News cites FBR sources as saying that the IMF urged Pakistan to raise additional revenue in order to make up for the tax shortfall. According to sources, the FBR requested a downward revision of its tax targets during virtual discussions with the IMF, but the request was turned down. The disbursement of the second loan…
Cardi B, a Grammy-winning rapper, recently stated that prior to Vice President Kamala Harris’s entry into the race, she had not planned to vote in the upcoming presidential election. Cardi B spoke on Friday at the rally in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, titled “When We Vote, We Win” about how Harris’s candidacy inspired her to participate in the election process. She shared with attendees, “I didn’t plan on voting in the presidential election until Kamala Harris joined the race,” describing how the vice president’s policies and platform resonated with her. In recent years, Cardi B has been vocal about social and political…
