Govt finalises digital policy for all newspaper websites.

Any news site activated for more than six months will be considered eligible for advertisements, says info minister.

Lahore (NUT-DESK)

Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Fawad Chaudhary has finalized the digital policy for all newspaper websites, accepting a long-held demand of the Council of Pakistan Newspaper Editors (CPNE).

While talking to members of the CPNE to condole the death of Council President Arif Nizami, he said a summary for approval of the policy will be tabled in the cabinet meeting next week.

According to Fawad Chaudhary, along with the national newspapers, the regional and local newspapers will also be granted a separate advertisement quota. Any news site which is activated for more than six months will be considered eligible for the advertisements, he said, adding that such advertisements will be monitored through cyber wing of the ministry.

Principal Information Officer (PIO) Sohail Khan explained that the government will separately issue advertisements to news websites under the new policy, and an amount of Rs 1billion is likely to be set aside for the purpose.

CPNE Senior Vice President Kazam Khan and provincial presidents Arshad Arif and Ayaz Khan expressed their gratitude to Federal Minister Fawad Chaudhary for his efforts regarding approval of the digital policy.

Govt finalises digital policy for all newspaper websites.
Govt finalises digital policy for all newspaper websites.

realme GT Master Edition Series Officially Released in China

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Designed by the renowned Japanese industrial designer, Naoto Fukasawa, realme GT Master Edition is claimed to be the best designed flagship smartphone of the year.

realme – the world’s fastest growing smartphone brand has released the GT Master Edition Series. Designed by Naoto Fukasawa, the famous Japanese industrial designer, realme GT Master Edition Series is claimed to be the best-designed flagship smartphone this year. realme GT Master Edition Series focuses on the trendsetting design and leap-forward performance, making it an absolute fit for being the flagship series of realme.

Naoto Fukasa has designed the smartphone’s back to adopt the suitcase design style. With GT Master Edition Series, realme introduces the industry’s first 3D vegan leather technology – a true innovation in design.

realme GT Master Edition Series is remarkable and noteworthy for its design and specification. realme GT Explorer Master Edition is equipped with Snapdragon 870 processor, 120Hz AMOLED display, stainless-steel liquid cooling technology, 65W SuperDart charging, a triple-camera system that includes a 50MP Sony IMX766 main camera, a 16MP ultra-wide-angle lens, and a B&W portrait lens.

The realme GT Master Edition is equipped with Snapdragon 778G 5G processor, using the TSMC 6nm process technology. realme GT Master Edition also has the same stainless-steel liquid cooling system, 120Hz Samsung AMOLED display, 65W SuperDart with a 4300mAh battery.

The price of realme GT Explorer Master Edition starts from USD 450/- and realme GT Master Edition starts from USD 370/- respectively. In addition to the smartphones, realme will also bring new category products at the following overseas launch event – including Pakistan.

realme GT Master Edition Series Officially Released in China
realme GT Master Edition Series Officially Released in China

Singing Sensation Aima Baig Engaged To Shahbaz Shigri.

Lahore (NUT-DESK)

Pakistani singing sensation Aima Baig engaged to love of her lifeShahbaz Shigri in a private ceremony attended by few celebrities including Aima’s best friend Hania Amir. The beautiful couple also exchanged rings. Aima and Shahbaz were dating for more than two years and finally they got engaged officially. Aima Baig shared her adorable engagement pictures with her fans. She was looking gorgeous and beautiful on her engagement.

Aima Baig wore a red and green saree at the event. She was looking very beautiful and gorgeous in saree. Shahbaz Shigri wore a black suit on his engagement. Both were looking very happy and adorable at their engagement ceremony. Friends from the showbiz industry attended their engagement ceremony. Haina Amir attended their best friend’s engagement ceremony in a light pink saree and she was looking breathtaking .They flashed their rings after their engagement.

Various Celebrities including Aima’s best friend Hania Amir, Bilal Saeed, Uzair Jaswal, Yasir Jaswal, Ali Rehman Khan and Usman Mukhtar attended the ceremony

Beautifull Pictures of Engagememt ceremony are also making rounds on the internet.

Pakistani singing sensation, Aima Baig, has been winning the hearts of millions of people with her versatile voice. The singer and scriptwriter have established herself as an upcoming superstar in the music industry.Whatever genre it is she exactly knows how to rock on the beat.

At the 5th HUM Style Awards, Shahbaz had revealed that he and Aima will tie the knot by the end of 2021.Aima and Shahbaz met on the sets of Parey Hut Love in 2019. They are among the most favourite celebrity couples in Pakistan.

 

Jeff Bezos, world’s richest man, rides his own rocket to space

Lahore (NUT-DESK)

Jeff Bezos blasted into space on Tuesday 20th July on his rocket company’s first flight with people on board, becoming the second billionaire in just over a week to ride his own spacecraft. The Amazon founder was accompanied by a hand-picked group: his brother, an 18-year-old from the Netherlands and an 82-year-old aviation pioneer from Texas — the youngest and oldest to ever fly in space.

Named after America’s first astronaut, Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket soared from remote West Texas on the 52nd anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, a date chosen by Bezos for its historical significance.He held fast to it, even as Virgin Galactic’s Richard Branson pushed up his own flight from New Mexico in the race for space tourist dollars and beat him to space by nine days.

Unlike Branson’s piloted rocket plane, Bezos’ capsule was completely automated and required no official staff on board for the anticipated 10-minute, up-and-down flight. Blue Origin was shooting for an altitude of roughly 66 miles (106 kilometres), more than 10 miles (16km) higher than Branson’s July 11 ride. The 60-foot (18-meter) booster accelerated to Mach 3 or three times the speed of sound to get the capsule high enough, before separating and aiming for a vertical landing.

The passengers were expected to get three to four minutes of weightlessness to float around the spacious white capsule. Then the window-filled capsule was going to head to a parachute touchdown on the desert floor, with Bezos and his guests briefly experiencing nearly six times the force of gravity, or 6 G’s, on the way back.

Sharing Bezos’ dream-come-true adventure was Wally Funk, from the Dallas area, one of 13 female pilots who went through the same tests as NASA’s all-male astronaut corps in the early 1960s but never made it into space.

Joining them on the ultimate joyride was the company’s first paying customer, Oliver Daemen, a last-minute fill-in for the mystery winner of a $28 million auction who opted for a later flight.

The Dutch teen’s father took part in the auction, and agreed on a lower undisclosed price last week when Blue Origin offered his son the vacated seat.

Blue Origin — founded by Bezos in 2000 in Kent, Washington, near Amazon’s Seattle headquarters — has yet to open ticket sales to the public or reveal the price. For now, it is booking auction bidders. Two more passenger flights are planned by year’s end, said Blue Origin CEO Bob Smith.

The recycled rocket and capsule that carried up Tuesday’s passengers were used on the last two space demos, according to company officials.

Virgin Galactic already has more than 600 reservations at $250,000 apiece. Founded by Branson in 2004, the company has sent crew into space four times and plans two more test flights from New Mexico before launching customers next year.Blue Origin’s approach was slower and more deliberate. After 15 successful unoccupied test flights to space since 2015, Bezos finally declared it was time to put people on board.

Bezos stepped down earlier this month as Amazon’s CEO and just last week donated $200m to renovate the National Air and Space Museum.Most of the $28m from the auction has been distributed to space advocacy and education groups, with the rest benefiting Blue Origin’s Club for the Future, its own education effort.

Fewer than 600 people have reached the edge of space or beyond. Until Tuesday, the youngest was 25-year-old Soviet cosmonaut Gherman Titov and the oldest at 77 was Mercury-turned-shuttle astronaut John Glenn.

Both Bezos and Branson want to drastically increase those overall numbers, as does SpaceX’s Elon Musk, who’s skipping brief space hops and sending his private clients straight to orbit for tens of millions apiece, with the first flight coming up in September.

Despite appearances, Bezos and Branson insist they weren’t trying to outdo each other by strapping in themselves. Bezos noted this week that only one person can lay claim to being first in space: Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, who rocketed into orbit on April 12, 1961.

Blue Origin is working on a massive rocket, New Glenn, to put payloads and people into orbit from Cape Canaveral, Florida.The company also wants to put astronauts back on the moon with its proposed lunar lander Blue Moon; it is challenging NASA’s sole contract award to SpaceX.

Jeff Bezos, world's richest man, rides his own rocket to space
Jeff Bezos, world’s richest man, rides his own rocket to space

 

 

Yasir Hussain, Iqra Aziz welcome baby boy Kabir Hussain !

Lahore (Nut-DesK) Yasir Hussain and Iqra Aziz have welcomed their first child together. Taking to Instagram, the actor shared an adorable snap of their son’s hand and revealed that they named him Kabir Hussain.

“Alhamdulillah. Allah k hukum se hum Kabir Hussain ko khushamdeed kehty hain,” he captioned the post. The news saw many warm congratulations from fans and the fraternity alike.

“Aww, MashaAllah kabir hussain,” Minal Khan commented.

“MashaAllah MashaAllah,” Aiman Khan wrote.

“Bohat Mubarak ho to you and Iqra for your first born MashaAllah,” Amar Khan commented on the post

SOC Films releases the animated film, Self-Defence

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This is the third animated film from the Siyani Sahelian Series.

SOC Films released the third animated film Self-Defence from the “Siyani Sahelian” animation series, as part of the collaborative program with Idara-e-Taleem-o-Aagahi.

Self-Defence illustrates the rising threat of harassment, kidnapping, and sexual violence in Pakistan, and the predicament it puts women in. This animated film navigates the urgent precautions and tools necessary to impede this threat. Focusing on empowerment rather than fear, the main character Asghari, along with friends and an elderly woman of her community, discuss these challenges faced by women in Pakistan and ways on how to address them.

The animated film Self-Defence can be viewed at: https://youtu.be/LQ8yk0rvLb4

The third animated film has been scripted by Safyah Usmani with animation by Kulsum Ibrahim, sound by Sameer Khan, editing by Nina Zehri and Meer Farhad Jamali, and voiceovers by Rabia Kiran Rajput, Mariam Rizvi Rubina, Safyah Usmani, Sara Gill and Zarghoona.

Launched in March 2018, Siyani Sahelian is a program which aims to tackle gender inequality for disadvantaged out of school adolescent girls (aged 9-19) in 60 towns and villages spread across the three districts of South Punjab: Muzaffargarh, Bahawalpur and Rahim Yar Khan. To-date, the program has empowered 36,000+ out of school adolescent girls in South Punjab through post primary opportunities for learning gains, TVET [Technical and Vocational Education and Training], livelihoods and life skills. As part of the outreach for this collaborative program, SOC Films also produced 4 short animated films for public screenings.

Indeed, SOC Films hopes to continue to implement sustainable community engagement programs to positively impact the lives of Pakistani youth.

 

 

“Khel Khel Mein” first motion poster unveiled.

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Filmwala Pictures is back with a Historic Drama Masterpiece. Directed by Nabeel Qureshi, film will star Sajal Aly and Bilal Abbas Khan in pivotal roles.

The motion poster for the upcoming film Khel Khel Mein was recently unveiled on social media. The poster was shared via the official Twitter account of the film. “ ‘If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten’ Filmwala pictures presents motion poster of Khel Khel Mein,” read the post.

The poster was retweeted by actor Humayun Saeed, who wrote, “This looks amazing! All the best to the entire team”.

It was also shared by Bilal Abbas Khan, who is all set to star in the film opposite actor Sajal Aly.

Filmmaker Nabeel Qureshi revealed previously in an Instagram Q and A session that Khel Khel Mein will be a historical drama; something that Qureshi is not commonly known for. The synopsis of the film posted to Twitter reads, “A heartwarming drama depicting a youthful take on tragic historical events. Lies may make enemies out of brothers. The wise know the truth can heal all wounds.”

The fan-favourite couple of Khan and Aly has previously graced the silver screen together in O’Rangreza and their chemistry on-screen had left many fans wanting more. Previously, the Dunk and Yeh Dil Mera actors had expressed their gratitude and excitement over the film while announcing the big news on social media. “Bismillah,” wrote Aly, while sharing a sneak peek of the script. On the other hand, Khan penned, “Working with the finest producer/director duo in the country for the first time. Iss baar milte hain theatre mein (We shall meet in theatres this time).”

Marvel enlists Karachi-born filmmaker Bassam Tariq for new “Blade” film.

Lahore (Nut-Desk)

After a thorough search that involved months of meeting a slew of talent, Marvel’s new “Blade” movie has found its director in filmmaker Bassam Tariq.

According to Nut sources, the Pakistani American director is currently in early talks to helm the feature project, capping off a search that began in fall 2020. He is known for directing the rap drama “Mogul Mowgli,” which he also co-wrote with star Riz Ahmed. Mahershala Ali, the two-time Oscar-winning actor, will be playing the role of Blade, a half-human, half-vampire who stalks the night to hunt down vampires.

Marvel boss Kevin Feige had revealed the casting of Ali at San Diego Comic-Con in July 2019, with the executive noting the actor informed Marvel he’d like to play the character after he won his second Oscar, for “Greenbook.”

Despite the early star attachment, it was only halfway through 2020 that Marvel really began sharpening the stakes in the search for its creative team. The studio spent months meticulously searching for the right scribe, only this February landing on Watchmen’s Stacy Osei-Kuffour, who became Marvel’s first Black female writer in the process.

Mogul Mowgli is Tariq’s only major film project. It stars actor Riz Ahmed as a British-Pakistani rap artist on the verge of his big break, but suddenly contracts a deadly autoimmune disease and is spurred to visit his family in London. Tariq previously worked on shorts and documentaries, including Netflix’s Ghosts of Sugar Land, which follows a group of suburban Muslims who grapple with a friend who has descended into extremist beliefs.

Marvel was reportedly looking at writer-director options but ultimately split the roles, landing Osei-Kuffour to pen Blade’s script. Tariq is the sixth person of colour hired to direct a Marvel film, following in the footsteps of Taika Waititi, Ryan Coogler, Nia DaCosta (brought on to direct Captain Marvel 2), Chloe Zhao, and Destin Cretton.

Earlier, Oscar-winning Pakistani film-maker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy had been roped in to co-direct the much-anticipated Ms Marvel, reported The Hollywood Reporter. According to the publication, the Emmy-winning director will be sharing the seat with the Disney+ series, which centers on teenage hero Kamala Khan. The character, a Pakistani American, is Marvel’s first Muslim superhero.

Netflix to start offering games to subscribers

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Netflix has confirmed that it is adding video games to its library, amid a collapse in its subscriber growth. The company said it will add games for no extra cost to people with existing subscription plans. But it did not say when they would arrive, or what kind of games it would offer.The announcement came as part of its latest results, which showed that its fast growth in subscribers is slowing.

The company blamed the issues on people leaving the house more as coronavirus lockdowns lift, as well as the fact that problems making films and TV shows under the pandemic meant it had less attractive content than usual.

The results showed the video service added 1.5 million subscribers during the April-June period. That’s slightly better than the modest increase that management forecast after the service stumbled to a sluggish start during the winter months, but still far below its growth rate in recent years.

Netflix’s net gain of 5.5 million subscribers through the first six months of this year represents its weakest first-half performance since 2013 – a time when the company was still rolling out more original programming as it branched out from licensing existing TV series and movies.

Now Netflix is taking another leap by offering video games that intends to produce itself as part of what it described as a multi-year expansion. The Los Gatos, California, company telegraphed the move last week when it disclosed the hiring of a veteran video game executive, Mike Verdu, to explore potential opportunities in another field of entertainment.

“The reason we’re doing them is to help the subscription service grow and be more important in people’s lives,” Netflix co-chief executive Reed Hastings told investors during a Tuesday discussion.

Greg Peters, Netflix’s chief product officer, said the company will initially focus on mobile games before eventually expanding to consoles and TV sets as well. The games initially will be tied to Netflix’s most popular programming, Peters said, but standalone titles may be added to the, mix too. He even speculated that Netflix eventually may create a TV series or film inspired by one of its video games.

“There’s a a big, big prize here, and our job is to be really focused,” Peters said.

Despite this year’s growth slowdown, Netflix remains by far the world’s biggest streaming service in an increasingly competitive field that includes Walt Disney Co., HBO, Amazon and Apple. Netflix finished June with 209 million worldwide subscribers.

Netflix to start offering games to subscribers
Netflix to start offering games to subscribers

Umar Sharif takes third wife to court over property dispute.

Lahore (Nut-Desk)

Actor/comedian Umar Sharif has turned to the Sindh High Court in an effort to stop his third wife, Zareen Ghazal, from selling his personal property, worthed 11 crores

According to Sharif’s lawyer, the ailing comedian bought the apartment, situated in Karachi’s Askari IV neighbourhood, in 2016 with the help of a bank loan. He then fell ill and was diagnosed with amnesia last year.

He further said that in December 2020, Zareen had intimidated Umar Sharif into signing the property over to her and was now looking to sell the Rs. 11 crore apartment without his approval. An official has since been issued and is dated for Aug. 10, reported a local outlet.

For those unversed, the apartment in question was a personal investment the actor made via a bank loan back in 2016 and is currently worth over Rs 11 crore.