Veteran star Durdana Butt on ventilator.

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Lahore (NUT-Desk)

The popular star, with a career spanning over various decades and memorable roles in the dramas like Fifty Fifty, Aangan Terha, Ruswai, Intezaar and Tanhaiyaan, famous Durdana Butt has been admitted to the hospital after her health deteriorated.

Veteran star has been shifted on ventilator and family has requested the prayers for her speedy recovery. According to the NUT source, Durdana butt had been battling cancer. Host Khalid Malik, too, took to social media and shared the news.

Sharing a picture of the actor, Malik wrote, “Please pray for her health. The sweetest Durdana Butt apa is on the ventilator. Allah grants her complete shifa. Ameen.” Soon after Malik’s post, Nadia Jamil and Simi Rahael prayed for Dutt’s speedy recovery.

Schools reopened in Punjab after summer vacations.

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Lahore (NUT-Desk)

The schools across the Punjab province have reopened after the summer vacations on onday 2nd August. Last week, Punjab Education Minister Murad Raas had rejected extension in summer vacations in the wake of COVID-19 and announced the reopening of all public and private schools in the province from August 2.

The school staff and administrations have been strictly advised to ensure the implementation of the COVID-19-related standard operating procedures (SOPs) to contain the COVID-19 Delta variant.

The entry of teachers and other staff have been banned in the schools without COVID-19 vaccination certificate, while only 50 per cent of the students are allowed to attend the schools in a bid to ensure social distancing. The time of schools is from 8am to 2pm.

An inter-Provincial Education Ministers Conference that was held on Tuesday had decided to not extend the summer vacations of educational institutions and all schools have been instructed to open from August 2, Monday. The decision was made in a meeting chaired by Federal Education Minister Shafqat Mahmood. All provincial education ministers, including Gilgit-Baltistan’s minister, attended it.

Honda (HACPL) launched the most anticipated car of 2021

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Lahore (NUT-Desk-PR)

Honda Atlas Cars Pakistan Limited (HACPL) has launched the All-new Honda City, the most anticipated car of 2021 in a spectacular ceremony at Royal Palm Lahore.

The HACPL Management comprising Chairman; Aamir H Shirazi, Presidenty & CEO; Hironobu Yoshimura, Director & Senior Advisor; Saquib H Shirazi & Senior Management of HACPL along with prominent Dealers & Corporates were a part of the launch event.

Addressing the guests at the event, Mr. Hironobu Yoshimura, President & CEO Honda Atlas Cars Pakistan introduced the most awaited car of the year while also highlighting Honda’s decades-long legacy of innovation in the automobile industry. He added that the All-new Honda City is the most evolved sedan in its category and perfectly embodies luxury, looks, comfort and safety. The All-new Honda City features cutting-edge technology with performance that signifies innovation making it a timeless work of art.“We hope you will enjoy the All-New Honda City just as much as we enjoyed making it.”

Amir Nazir, General Manager Sales & Marketing gave an overview of the car and highlighted the features of All-new Honda City. He also emphasized on how the new model outshines its predecessor in terms of design, performance and features.

The All-new Honda City comes in five variants, 1.5L ASPIRE CVT & MT, 1.5L City CVT and 1.2L CVT & MT and all variants carrying exceptional features.

All variants ensure maximum safety & security by features like Driver & Passenger Airbags, ABS + EBD, Impact Mitigating Headrest, ACE Body Structure, Pedestrian Injury Mitigation Technology, ECU Immobilizer and many more. In Exterior, all variants carry Premium Dual-Barrel Halogen Headlights with Daytime Running light, attractive rear lights with 15’’ tire size & high ground clearance. Interior color is Ivory, Newly designed meter, Tilt & Telescopic steering with audio switches, Driver seat height adjuster, Dust & pollen air filter, Trunk lid lining & comfortably spacious cabin along with bigger trunk space.

The new Honda City is designed to deliver a comfortable yet luxurious driving experience by incorporating sporty yet comfy seats. Honda City 1.5L Aspire incorporates CVT Transmission and offers advanced features like Smart Entry, Push Start, Cruise Control, Touchscreen 9” Display Audio System with a wireless Phone Connection via Bluetooth, a bigger Infotainment Screen, Auto AC along with rear AC vents.

The All-new Honda City offers a state of maximum comfort and safety with a gorgeous exterior showcasing an impressive performance on the road. It features Continuously Variable Transmission (CVT) incorporating Honda’s Earth Dreams Technology that offers fuel efficiency.

Honda City 1.2L is tailored specially for the Pakistani market. It is an exceptionally fuel-efficient variant and offers an eco-friendly driving experience featuring a spacious cabin along with a bigger car trunk providing greater luggage capacity, infotainment screen as 7” Capacitive Touch Display and Auto Door Lock System offering a comfortable experience throughout your drive.

The All-new Honda City has been reimagined with stellar looks paired with modern features offering a pleasurable driving experience whilst making it one of the best works by Honda in recent times.

It is available in seven colors, which are: Modern Steel Metallic, Crystal Black Pearl, Lunar Silver Metallic, Teffeta White, Modern Steel Metallic, Carnelian Red and Urban Titanium. The booking of all variants is open at all Honda 3S dealerships at initial booking price of 1 Million (1.2L CVT & MT, 1.5L City) & 1.2 Million (City Aspire 1.5L CVT & MT).

Ajoka theatre announced the winners of Coronologue Film Fest

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Winners of Ajoka’s Coronologue2 Short Film Festival were announced at a zoom ceremony. Sibte Hassan of Lahore was awarded the first prize of Rs 75,000 for his short film titled “Hero” while Moizah Jilani of Karachi was given the second prize of Rs 50,000 for her film “Distant Relationship”. Lahore’s Junaid Arif (“Abbu”) got the third prize of Rs 25,000 and Elsa Shabbir from Lahore (“Lockdown Effects”) and Peshawar’s Mahnoor Samad (“Life After Corona”) were given special mentions. The jury consisted of noted film scholar Aijazz Gul, eminent poet and playwright Asghar Nadeem Syed, Film & TV Producer Rashid Khawaja, actor Savera Nadeem and Ajoka Chairperson Zara Salman. The ceremony was also attended by participants of the competition from different parts of the country.

The awards were announced by Syeda Henna Babar Ali of Babar Ali Foundation. She congratulated the winners and appreciated the creative efforts by all participants. Jury members also congratulated the winners and suggested that Ajoka should continue to hold such festivals to encourage socially-aware young film makers. Ajoka’s Executive Director Shahid Nadeem thanked the sponsors of the festival the Babar Ali Foundation and individual contributors including Javed Masud, Dr. Fawzia Afzal Khan, Perin Boga, Khawar Mumtaz, Salman Cheema and Shama Khaliq. He announced that an online awards ceremony for the winners will be held in the second week of August which will be live-streamed on Facebook.

Ajoka also held Coronologue Theatre Festival in May 2020 during the first Lockdown.

realme ready to Launch Android’s First Magnetic Wireless Charging MagDart

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Lahore (Muhammad Yasir)

realme, the world’s fastest-growing smartphone brand, will introduce Android’s first magnetic wireless charging MagDart ​​on realme Magnetic Innovation Event on Tuesday, August 03 at 12:00 PM UTC (05:00 PM Pakistan Standard Time).

MagDart will be the world’s fastest magnetic wireless charging, bringing magnet wireless charging to a fast charging era. The first Android magnetic wireless charging smartphone, realme Flash, will be unveiled at the event. Besides, a series of MagDart accessories will together build a promising magnetic ecosystem together with the realme Flash and the MagDart chargers.

The launch event will be held online on realme official social media platforms like Youtube, Twitter and Facebook also.

realme has always been bringing leap-forward technology to global young users. In July 2020, realme introduced the world’s leading 125W SuperDart Charge. MagDart will bring magnetic wireless charging to a new speed era. Stay tuned!

Maryam Nawaz tests positive for coronavirus

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Lahore (Nut-Desk)

PML-N Vice President Maryam Nawaz has tested positive for coronavirus (COVID-19) .This was confirmed by PML-N spokesperson Marriyum Aurangzeb on her twitter. “After testing positive Maryam Nawaz has quarantined herself at her home as a precautionary measure,” she said.

She also appealed to the nation to pray for the recovery of all the patients including the PML-N vice president.Meanwhile, in the last 24 hours, Pakistan reported 44 deaths by novel coronavirus as the number of positive cases has surged to 1,015,827. The nationwide tally of fatalities had jumped to 23,133.

4,119 persons tested positive for COVID-19 in the past 24 hours. Punjab remains the worst-hit province in terms of deaths followed by Sindh and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Till now 10,978 individuals have lost their lives to the epidemic in Punjab 5,860 in Sindh, 4,428 in KP, 796 in Islamabad, 618 in Azad Kashmir, 326 in Balochistan, and 127 in GB.

Furthermore 371,762 coronavirus cases have been confirmed in Sindh, 354,312 in Punjab, 142,400 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 86,226 in Islamabad, 29,861 in Balochistan, 23,370 in Azad Kashmir and 7,896 in Gilgit-Baltistan.

Pakistan to begin mobile phone export by Jan 2022

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Lahore (Nut-Desk)

Abdul Razak Dawood adviser to Prime Minister on Commerce informed the parliamentary panel that Pakistan will start export of mobile phones by January 2022..

The senate standing committee on commerce, chaired by Senator Zeeshan Khanzada, also grilled the commerce ministry for various issues related to Pak exports including rice and sea foods ect. Dawood informed the committee that Pakistan will start export of mobile phones by January 2022 and two Chinese companies will take the lead. One Chinese company has set up industry in Karachi.

Interestingly, the Adviser added that Samsung was asked twice to set up a factory in Pakistan and was also offered incentives but it refused. Now, when two Chinese companies have set up their factories, Samsung approached the government for incentives, said Dawood,  adding that now the company will have to set up factory on already available incentives.

Google introduced new feature, users can check the reasons behind search results!

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Lahore (Nut-Desk)

Google is biggest platform for searching every kind of quires and information around the globe. In fact if somebody says, we are living in Google Era, It will be perfect and for assistance of its users, google always starts new features. Another such feature will enable the users about reasons behind the search results and now people googling queries will now be able to click into details such as how their result matched certain search terms.

Alphabet’s Google will now show its search engine users more information about why it found the results they are shown, the company announced recently. It said people googling queries will now be able to click into details such as how their result matched certain search terms, in order to better decide if the information is relevant.

Google has been making changes to give users more context about the results its search engine provides. Earlier this year it introduced panels to tell users about the sources of the information they are seeing. It has also started warning users when a topic is rapidly evolving and search results might not be reliable.

Veteran Actresses Rehana Siddiqui passed way in UK

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Lahore (ALI QASIM)

Renowned actress of Pakistani TV & film Industry Rehana Siddiqui passed away in United Kingdon two days ago after a prolong illness. Rehana Siddiqui was  a God gifted actress who performed various memorable roles in hit television plays and films during 80s and 90s era. She did a movie as title heroine but later shifted to characters roles. She performed mostly supporting roles in films. She portrayed the character of sister of Muhammad Ali in “ Mohabbat Rang laaey gee”.

Rehana Siddiqui was younger sister of celebrated actress Talat Siddiqui and aunt of actress/singer Arifa Siddiqui and Fareeha Pervez. Pakistan’s eminent Kathak Dancer Nahid Siddiqui is also her niece.

Rehana Siddiqui married with fellow actor Aurangzeb and carried the name Rehana Aurangzeb but after the separation from her husband she retained her previous name Rehana Siddiqui. . In Hamdam, Rehana was one of the lead actors, while Talat played an important role herself. She used to appear in every second play of PTV at a time and was considered the busiest actress of her time. Her colleagues and various stars of Pakistani drama industry have expressed sorrow over Rehana Siddiqui demise. News Update Times also stands with Rehana Siddiqui family in this difficult time.

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Cabinet approved Pak’s 1st National Cyber Security Policy.

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Lahore (Nut-Desk0

Federal cabinet approved Pakistan’s first National Cyber Security Policy that the IT ministry had prepared to ensure the safety of online data on Tuesday 27th July. The policy has been introduced keeping in view the enhanced significance of the cyber regime.

The policy highlights that to counter these threats, the IT ministry will help establish active cyber defence and cyber security governance, protect internet-based services, ensure protection and resilience of national critical information structures, protection of the government’s information systems and infrastructure, develop information security assurance framework, increase awareness of cyber security and develop cybercrime response mechanisms and regulations.

The primary objective of the policy is to ensure the protection of online data and information of citizens, public and private institutions. Under the policy, the government will form computer emergency response teams at the national, sectoral and institutional levels.

It will set up Cyber Governance Policy Committee to ensure the protection of online data and information of citizens, public and private institutions. IT Minister Aminul Haq said that the government had also approved a budget of Rs1.92 billion for a national-level response team, which the government would constitute under the new cyber security policy.

The government will set up the Cyber Governance Policy Committee for the implementation of cyber security policy, its oversight, strategy and action.

The minister said that cyberattack on a Pakistani institution would be considered an attack on national security. In case of a cyberattack, the government will take all necessary measures and retaliatory action. He added that the government would also equip experts with all essential and modern tools to ensure national cyber security under the new policy.