Author: Hasnain Abid Khanzada

Britney Spears took to Instagram on Wednesday, September 4, to offer some advice to her followers, urging them to “stay nice” to one another. In a video where she danced around her apartment, the 42-year-old pop icon asked if her fans were “beginning to communicate.” She captioned the post, “Sorry had to!!! It just feels more human that’s why it gets to people!!! Are we beginning to communicate??? Stay nice now folks!!! And it’s a school night so go to bed early and get those lunches ready because your children need to eat!!! Word of the week – adjacent!!! (sic).”…

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Jennifer Lopez is addressing rumors about her relationship with Ben Affleck following their recent split. A resurfaced interview clip from 2014 has put “The Boy Next Door” star in a tough spot. During an exclusive interview with radio host Big Boy, Lopez shared her true feelings about her exes, Ben Affleck and Sean ‘P. Diddy’ Combs. The host presented a hypothetical scenario: “You’re on a raft in the middle of the ocean and you see two people floating. You can only save one, and you see Ben Affleck and Diddy.” Lopez, who was not involved with either at the time,…

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NEW DELHI: Insurgents in India’s Manipur state have carried out a deadly attack on security forces, using drones to drop explosives in what police called a “significant escalation” of violence in the restive northeastern region. A 31-year-old women was killed and six people were wounded on Sunday in what police said was an “unprecedented attack” by rebels who used drones to drop the heads of rocket-propelled grenades. Fighting broke out in Manipur in May 2023 between the predominantly Hindu Meitei majority and mainly Christian Kuki community, an ethnic conflict that has since killed at least 200 people. Rival militias have set up…

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GREEN BANK: Nestled between mountains in a secluded corner of West Virginia, a giant awakens: the Green Bank Telescope begins its nightly vigil, scanning the cosmos for secrets. If intelligent life exists beyond Earth, there’s a good chance the teams analysing the data from the world’s largest, fully steerable radio astronomy facility will be the first to know. “People have been asking themselves the question, ‘Are we alone in the universe?’ ever since they first gazed up at the night sky and wondered if there were other worlds out there,” says Steve Croft, project scientist for the Breakthrough Listen initiative.…

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WASHINGTON: Former US president Donald Tru­mp on Thursday pleaded not guilty in federal court to four criminal counts charging him with plotting to overturn his 2020 presidential election loss. Trump appeared in a Washington courtroom to face charges that he led a conspiracy built on lies to overturn the 2020 presidential election, culminating in an attack on the seat of American democracy. Trump, the front-runner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, walked into the court of Moxila Upadhyaya just before 2000GMT for his arraignment. Wearing a blue suit and a red tie, Trump briefly picked up the papers in front…

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WASHINGTON: Four people were shot dead on a train in the US city of Chicago on Monday, with a suspect apprehended soon after the mass shooting occurred. Police said they responded to an emergency hotline call early on Monday morning, arriving at the Forest Park train station where they found the four victims. “Three were pronounced dead on scene, the fourth was transported to Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood, where they were later pronounced,” a police statement said. Gun violence is common in the United States, a country where there are more firearms than people. Attempts to clamp down on…

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STOCKHOLM: Toddlers should not be allowed to watch screens at all, Sweden told parents on Monday. Children under the age of two should be kept away from digital media and television completely, the country’s Public Health Agency said. Kids between the ages of two and five should be limited to a maximum of one hour of screen time a day, it said in new recommendations, while those aged six to 12 should spend no more than an hour or two a day in front of a screen. Teenagers aged 13 to 18 should be limited to two to three hours…

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GENEVA: An independent UN expert warned on Monday that Israel’s “genocidal violence” in Gaza risked spreading to other parts of the occupied Palestinian territory amid a large-scale military operation in the West Bank. Francesca Albanese, the United Nations special rapporteur on the rights situation in the Palestinian territories, warned in a statement that Israel’s recent intensification of its operations in the occupied West Bank, which is separated from Gaza by Israeli territory, marked “a dangerous escalation”. “Israel’s genocidal violence risks leaking out of Gaza and into the occupied Palestinian territory as a whole,” she said. “The writing is on the…

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India’s federal police said it had arrested the former principal of R.G. Kar Medical College in Kolkata for alleged graft, after an investigation into the case of the brutal rape and murder of a young female doctor on the premises. Sandip Ghosh, who resigned as principal of the British colonial-era college days after the incident became public, was arrested on Monday on charges of financial irregularities, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) said. The CBI said it also arrested two vendors of hospital supplies and a close aide of Ghosh in connection with the case. Reuters was not able to immediately reach…

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