Sinf-e-Aahan actor Tashi Kalidasa applauds co-star Sajal Aly and her acting. The diva, who plays Srilankan native Nathamy Parerra in the ISPR show, sat in for an exclusive interview with Maliha Rehman to discuss which one of the other actors, including Sajal Aly, Yumna Zaidi, Ramsha Khan, Kubra Khan and Syra Yousuf does she admire the most.= “I’ll be honest. I like Sajal,” said Tashi as she lauded her storyline and journey in the show. “She is a very talented girl. I love how she cries. She is really good at crying.” Reacting to her comment, Maliha added how Sajal makes…
Author: Hasnain Abid Khanzada
The opposite of poverty isn’t wealth but justice, says civil rights attorney Bryan Stevenson. It’s been a guiding principle for the author of Just Mercy and the leader of the Alabama-based Equal Justice Initiative, which advocates for a fair justice system. But much of life isn’t a meritocracy. Racism and discrimination can actually be built into the system of governance. Though there has been progress over the decades in this region, it’s clear that much work has to be done to address systemic inequities in not only criminal justice but also education, housing and wealth generation. Furthermore, advocates are pushing for Dallas’…
North Texas is one patient away from tying the all-time record of people hospitalized with COVID-19. COVID-positive hospitalizations in North Texas reached 4,171 on Thursday, an 89 patient increase from the day prior, the Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council reported. Of those, 265 are at Parkland Memorial Hospital, up 1 from Wednesday. During the January 2021 surge, COVID-19 hospitalizations in the area reached the pandemic’s highest peak of 4,172, according to Texas Department of State Health Services data. The region has yet to see its peak in new daily infections during the omicron variant, experts say. “We’ll see [the peak] in…
A Dallas-Fort Worth radio DJ was charged with producing child pornography on Wednesday, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Texas announced. Clois Glenn Raborn, 49, who occasionally appeared on The Russ Martin Show on KEGL-FM (97.1), made his first court appearance Thursday afternoon, the U.S. attorney’s office said. The investigation started in March when Raborn’s roommate discovered explicit images of children on Raborn’s laptop, the office said. According to the criminal complaint, authorities searched the laptop and found images of who they believe to be Raborn “allegedly engaging in sexual conduct with a young child.” The child’s mother confirmed…
Dallas police are asking for the public’s help finding an 11-year-old boy last seen early Thursday in the Mountain Creek area. Police said Traveon Griffin may be confused and in need of assistance. Traveon was last seen about midnight in the 5900 block of Naravista Drive, between Belt Line Road and Mountain Creek Parkway. Police said he was last seen in clothing ill-equipped for Thursday’s below-freezing temperatures. Traveon is described as Black, 4-feet-11-inches and about 70 pounds. He has black hair and brown eyes, and he was last seen wearing white socks, black shorts and no shirt, police said. Dallas…
Across the state, 13,094 Texas were hospitalized with the virus Thursday, including more than 4,000 in North Texas. Both numbers are on the verge of breaking records. Here’s what you need to know about COVID-19 today: COVID-positive hospitalizations in North Texas reached 4,171 on Thursday as the region has yet to reach the peak of the omicron variant. Rosie Davis created the Yellow Heart Memorial to honor her mother and the 800,000 American lives lost to the pandemic. Labor shortages are rippling through the service and construction industries, pushing up wages even among undocumented workers. Legal immigration has been hurt just as much. Nursing…
West Dallas benefits from high homeownership rates in most of its neighborhoods. The collective muscle that created has helped the community thrive in an area that a U.S. government-sponsored agency in the 1930s subjected to racist redlining. The homeownership rate is nearly at the national rate of 65% — when two census tracts with public housing and new luxury apartments are excluded. Nine out of 10 residents in West Dallas are Latino or Black. Nationally, homeownership rates were 48% for Latinos and about 44% for Black residents in 2021, according to the Census Bureau’s most recent data. “People tend to think of…
Is Texas ready for bad weather this time? Last winter’s big freeze brought down much of the electric grid, leaving over 4.5 million Texans without power, some for up to four days. The state confirmed 246 deaths related to the storm and outages, and almost two-thirds died from hypothermia. The disaster prompted investigations, reforms and legislative action, and those efforts appear to be paying off, even as some vulnerabilities remain. A big push since the storm has been to harden the power supply so generators can withstand winter weather. All but three of 324 generation units and transmission facilities have passed…
After a very cold morning (teens and 20s), temperatures will moderate later this afternoon into the 40s. Fortunately, the wind will be a lot lighter today, making for much more bearable wind chills. The sky will be cloud-free and sunny for most of North Texas today. Another cold night is expected tonight into Saturday morning with lows in the mid-20s. Saturday’s highs will be close to 50 area-wide while Sunday will be close to 60. Overall, it will be a nice weekend with sunshine and light winds The clouds are expected to roll in Monday along with a chance of…
Dallas police are now among a growing number of law enforcement agencies using aerial drones as part of their operations, but advocates say more oversight is needed to protect residents’ rights. Thursday marked the department’s formal introduction of its new drone unit. The five-person team will use aerial drones in search-and-rescue missions, for de-escalation tactics and in building searches, said Dallas Police Sgt. Ross Stinson. The unit was deployed during search efforts for an 11-year-old boy reported missing Thursday in Mountain Creek just south of Grand Prairie. Dallas police started research and planning for an aerial drone unit in 2015. Drone pilots…
