Tue 26 May 2020: If you haven’t been violating lockdown laws and are privileged enough to have a home, chances are that you come across these words a few times everyday – depending on just how many hours you spend on social media. Personally, we nearing a whole twenty-four – but that’s a story for […]
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Thu 21 May 2020: Turkish television series “Diriliş Ertuğrul” (“Resurrection: Ertuğrul”) is aiming to break the world record for the most new subscribers on YouTube in a 28-day period. After being aired on the state-run Pakistan Television (PTV), TRT Ertugrul by PTV, the series’ Urdu-language YouTube channel, crossed 2 million subscribers and over 100 million […]
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Thu 14 May 2020: Turkey’s prestigious Istanbul Film Festival will begin online from Friday, with 15 selected films set to entertain the public from May 15-29. The 39th Istanbul Film Festival, organized by the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (IKSV), originally scheduled from April 10-21, was postponed earlier amid fears of coronavirus or COVID-19 […]
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Sat 09 May 2020: YouTube channel of Resurrection: Ertugrul by state-run Pakistan Television reaches 1 million subscribers Turkish television series Resurrection: Ertugrul is set to break a world record of most new subscribers in a month on YouTube. After being aired on the state-run Pakistan Television (PTV), TRT Ertugrul by PTV, the serial’s YouTube channel, […]
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Thu 30 April 2020: Veteran Bollywood actor Rishi Kapoor has died in a hospital in Mumbai after a two-year battle with cancer. He was 67 years old. “Our dear Rishi Kapoor passed away peacefully at 8:45 am IST in hospital today after a two-year battle with leukaemia. The doctors and medical staff at the hospital […]
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Wed 29 April 2020: His movie credits include internationally acclaimed offerings such as The Lunchbox and the Hollywood blockbuster Jurassic World. Actor Irrfan Khan died on Wednesday in Mumbai’s Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital, where he was being treated for a colon infection. A statement released by his family said that Mr Khan spent his final hours “surrounded by his […]
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Sun 26 April 2020: The Turkish television series Resurrection: Ertugrul is an “interesting” drama which shows Islamic culture, said Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan. “It is part of history in which values of Islamic culture have been showcased,” Khan told journalists in Islamabad on Friday. State-run Pakistan Television (PTV) late Saturday launched the first episode […]
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Sat 25 April 2020: Rapper Kanye West is now a billionaire thanks largely to the basketball shoes bearing his name that he developed with Adidas, Forbes magazine said Friday. The rough figure of the wealth of Kim Kardashian’s hubby is $1.3 billion, the magazine said in announcing the musician is now on its list of […]
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Sun 29 March 2020: Netflix series Messiah, a political-religious thriller which courted controversy across the Middle East among Muslim viewers, has been canceled after just one season due to difficulties filming amid the global coronavirus crisis, actor Tomer Sisley announced on his Instagram page. “I am sorry for all the Messiah fans over the world. […]
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Tue 11 February 2020: The UAE, Saudi Arabia and Egypt alliance have taken a new scandalous step targeting popular Turkish dramas aired in the Middle East. In Egypt, the official and biggest fatwa organ of the country, the “High Fatwa Council” (Dâru’l-İftâ), published a statement that accuses Turkey of trying to create an “area of […]
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