STARCOM PAKISTAN announces itself at the 18th Dragons of Asia Awards by clinching SIX awards

The winners of the 2018 Dragons of Asia awards have been announced at the Gala Awards Event at the TGV Cinema Complex in Kuala Lumpur.Starcom Pakistan has won six Dragon awards including best brand building and awareness campaign.Starcom thanks its clients for having high expectations from them and congratulates its team in exceeding them.Award details areRED DRAGON2018 Best Campaign...

Read More

Daraz brings the world’s biggest sale day- Alibaba’s 11.11 Global Shopping Festival – to Pakistan

Daraz is set to join Alibaba’s 11.11 Global Shopping Festival for the first time.The event, which was introduced by parent company and ecommerce giant Alibaba 10 years ago, is now the world’s biggest sale day and is set to drive Pakistan into a new era of online shopping.The GyaraGyara Sale will kick off on the midnight of November 11 and last 24 hours, featuring discounts of...

Read More

Canada asks world to stop sending mail

OTTAWA: Canada’s postal service has issued a plea for the rest of the world to stop sending in mail as its striking workers rejected the latest contract offer.Canada Post, facing a huge delivery backlog as the labor unrest looked set to enter a fifth week, recently sweetened its offer to staff in a last-ditch effort to bring the rotating strikes to an end.This followed a warning...

Read More

Rare Sumatran tiger rescued from beneath shop in Indonesia

BURUNG ISLAND, Indonesia: A rare Sumatran tiger that was trapped beneath the floor of a shop for three days has been rescued, an Indonesian official said Saturday.The three-year old male was freed from the 75 centimetre (30 inch) crawl space on Burung Island in Riau province, the local conservation agency said.“After the tiger was successfully put to sleep we opened up part of...

Read More

Australian dies of cardiac arrest after ‘stingray attack’

SYDNEY: A swimmer died after a rare suspected stingray attack off an Australian beach while another two people were mauled in separate shark encounters this weekend.The 42-year-old’s death came more than a decade after world-renowned “Crocodile Hunter” Steve Irwin was killed when a stingray barb punctured his chest while he was filming on the famed Great Barrier Reef.The man was...

Read More

Taiwanese puppet master fights to save dying art

At 87 years old, Taiwanese glove puppeteer Chen Hsi-huang is the star of a new documentary which reflects his determination to revive the dying traditional craft and a late-life renaissance as a high-profile promoter of the art form.The film, entitled “Father”, tells the story of how Chen pursued the craft in the shadow of his father, the legendary puppeteer Li Tian-lu, who drew...

Read More

David Hockney pool painting soars to $90 mln, record for living artist

NEW YORK:  An iconic 1972 painting by British artist David Hockney soared to $90.3 million at Christie’s on Thursday, smashing the record for the highest price ever paid at auction for a work by a living artist.With Christie’s commission, “Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures),” surpassed the auction house’s pre-sale estimate of about $80 million, following a bidding...

Read More

Oh boy – vintage Mickey Mouse posters to fetch thousands at auction

LONDON: Seven rare vintage posters of Mickey Mouse are expected to fetch thousands of dollars at an auction that coincides with the 90th anniversary of the cartoon character’s first film appearance.The seven posters, dating from the 1930s and 1940s, went on display on Friday at a commemorative exhibition in London organised by Disney.They are going under the Sotheby’s hammer in...

Read More

Saudi women mount ‘inside-out’ abaya protest

RIYADH: Saudi women have mounted a rare protest against the abaya, posting pictures on social media wearing the obligatory body-shrouding robe inside out.The conservative petro-state has some of the world’s toughest restrictions on women, who are required to wear the typically all-black garment in public.Powerful Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in March said wearing the robe...

Read More

Nepal’s first robot waiter is ready for orders

“Please enjoy your meal,” says Nepal´s first robot waiter, Ginger, as she delivers a plate of steaming dumplings to a table of hungry customers.The poor Himalayan nation is better known for its soaring mountain peaks than technological prowess, but a group of self-taught young innovators are seeking to change that.Local start-up Paaila Technology built Ginger, a 1.5 metre (five-foot)...

Read More

Facebook denies hiding Russian sabotage, but fires lobbying firm

WASHINGTON: Facebook on Thursday denied allegations in the New York Times that it tried to mislead the public about its knowledge of Russian misinformation ahead of the 2016 US presidential election, but severed links with a Republican consultancy.The Times detailed obfuscation by Facebook’s top bosses on the Russia front, said the company has at times smeared critics as anti-Semitic...

Read More

Silicon eyed as way to boost electric car battery potential

The race to build a better electric car battery is turning to silicon, with several companies working to engineer types of the material that can boost driving range and cut production costs.About 500,000 electric vehicles (EVs) were sold globally in 2016, a figure that is expected to jump sevenfold by 2022, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.That increase...

Read More

SpaceX gets nod to put 12,000 satellites in orbit

WASHINGTON: SpaceX got the green light this week from US authorities to put a constellation of nearly 12,000 satellites into orbit in order to boost cheap, wireless internet access by the 2020s.The SpaceX network would vastly multiply the number of satellites around Earth.Since the world’s first artificial satellite, Sputnik, was launched in 1957, humanity has sent just over 8,000...

Read More

New space industry emerges: on-orbit servicing

WASHINGTON: Imagine an airport where thousands of planes, empty of fuel, are left abandoned on the tarmac. That is what has been happening for decades with satellites that circle the Earth.When satellites run out of fuel, they can no longer maintain their precise orbit, rendering them useless even if their hardware is still intact.“It’s literally throwing away hundreds of millions...

Read More

Driven to desperation by poverty, a rickshaw driver set his vehicle on fire and even tried to immolate himself

KARACHI: Just three days after a rickshaw driver committed self-immolation and later died when he was forced to pay extortion by a traffic cop, another similar case surfaced when a driver of three-wheeler attempted to burn himself due to poverty.According to details, rickshaw driver, Shahid, set his rickshaw on fire in North Nazimabad area of the city and also attempted to commit...

Read More

Meet Allah Ditta, the selfless human who fights waves to help people.

Lahore: For 40 years, Allah Ditta has fought waves selflessly to help people live.Having saved 800 people and recovered 2,000 dead bodies, Allah Ditta says he cannot help being a savior to someone. Reminiscing a similar incident, he told ARY News, “A woman once jumped from the bridge to commit suicide, I caught her and brought her to safety. In return she slapped me really hard ...

Read More

Here is what Pakistan should know about diabetes, a deadly disease

World Diabetes Day is being observed across the world today.World Diabetes Day was first observed in 1991 by International Diabetes Federation (IDF) and the World Health Organization (WHO) to create awareness in the world about increasing threat posed by diabetes.World Health Organization described diabetes as: Diabetes is a chronic, progressive noncommunicable disease (NCD) characterized...

Read More

Conjoined Bhutanese twins separated by surgery in Australia

MELBOURNE: Australian surgeons on Friday successfully separated 15-month-old Bhutanese twins, Nima and Dawa, who had been joined at the torso.The team of more than 20 doctors and nurses spent six hours operating on the pair, who shared a liver but no other major organs, to the relief of the surgeons.“We didn’t find surprises,” said Joe Crameri, who led the surgery at the Royal...

Read More

WHO uncovers big national variations in antibiotics consumption

GENEVA: Antibiotics are used far more in some countries than in others, a survey by the World Health Organization (WHO) showed on Monday, suggesting that urgent action was needed to slash unnecessary consumption of the medicines.The “WHO Report on Surveillance of Antibiotic Consumption” looked at antibiotic use in 65 countries and found the Netherlands used 9.78 defined daily...

Read More

Eleventh child dies from viral outbreak at New Jersey facility

NEW JERSEY: An 11th child has died in less than four weeks at a New Jersey rehabilitation center, one of 34 young patients with compromised immune systems to have been infected by a viral outbreak, state health officials said on Friday.The child, who died late Thursday, and the others at the Wanaque Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation in the town of Haskell, became ill with...

Read More