BBCNEW YORK- British musical Matilda has topped the Drama Desk awards with five prizes.The Broadway show, based on Roald Dahl’s book, won outstanding musical, while Bertie Carvel as Miss Trunchbull took outstanding actor in a musical and Tim Minchin won for outstanding lyrics, other than book ...

ISLAMABAD - Action taken on The Nation story as the young sisters’ duo of Alina Aftab and Mahin Aftab were awarded one-year stipend by ZTBL. Talking to this scribe, tennis stars’ father Aftab said: “I am grateful to The Nation for highlighting my daughters at a time when nobody ...

KARACHI (PR): National Forum for Environment and Health (NFEH) has invited nomination for 10th Annual Environment Excellence Awards (AEEA 2013) to industries and other business organizations which are following environment friendly guidelines and performance for promoting the cause of ...

National Forum for Environment and Health has invited nomination for 10th Annual Environment Excellence Awards (AEEA-2013) to industries and other business organisations following environment-friendly guidelines and promoting the cause of pollution-free environment. This was announced by NFEH ...

KARACHI (PR): Emirates’ innovation, investment and customer service was further recognized at an international level last night with an array of awards from two prestigious awards ceremonies.At the Business Traveller Middle East Awards, Emirates was crowned Best Airline Worldwide as the ...

KARACHIPRThe Awards office of the 12th Annual LUX Style Awards announced nominations in 22 categories in the field of television, music and fashion late on Tuesday.The three distinct juries that debated and voted for the TV, Music and Fashion nominations had an intensive and challenging task to ...

Olivia Colman has won two Baftas, taking the prizes for best supporting actress for Accused and best female in a comedy programme for Twenty Twelve.Colman said of her win for Accused: “Turns out it does mean a lot. And I’m not going to cry.”BBC Olympic satire Twenty Twelve also ...

KARACHI (PR) – The PAS Awards, one of the most recognized and credible advertising competitions in Pakistan, unveiled many jubilant winners across 28 categories during the awards distribution ceremony held amidst much fanfare and excitement. The glitterati gathered at Karachi Expo to attend ...

LONDON - Tottenham Hotspur winger Gareth Bale completed a notable treble Thursday after being voted the 2013 Footballer of the Year by England's Football Writers' Association. The 23-year-oldWalesinternational topped the journalists' poll by a narrow margin with Manchester United's Robin van Persie ...

LOS ANGELES: Actress Laura Linney, the female cast members of TV drama “Mad Men” and directors Sofia Coppola and George Lucas were named on Monday as winners of Hollywood’s annual Crystal and Lucy Awards, which honour women’s achievement in film. The Women in Film ...

WAH CANTT  - Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) has awarded party ticket to three dissidents of PML-Q on one National Assembly and two provincial assembly seats of the area makes mockery of PTI's mantra of new faces and slogan of change.Closely watching and observing the changing political ...

OttawaBillboardCarly Rae Jepsen added two more Junos on Sunday night, one of seven trophies given out at Canada’s 42nd annual Juno Awards, which was televised live on CTV from Brandt Centre in Regina.The pop singer had already won an award at the previous day’s private gala dinner, ...

lAHORE­:-The Punjab University has awarded 5 PhD degrees to the scholars. Muhammad Yaseen got the degree in Urdu, Yorid Ahsan in Administrative Sciences (Management), Qamar Fatima in Political Science, Muhammad Shahid and Sadia Malik in Applied Psychology. 

LAHORE - Punjab University has awarded five PhD degrees to the scholars in which Muhammad Munir S/o Farzand Ali in the subject of Punjabi after approval of his thesis entitled “Heer Damodar Te Heer Waris Shah: Taqabli Mutalea”, Khizar Iqbal S/o Malik Abdur Razzaq in the subject of ...

LOS ANGELES - The comic book superheroes of “The Avengers” and comedy romance “Silver Linings Playbook” ruled at the MTV Movie Awards on Sunday on a night packed with irreverent jokes and sneak peeks of some of the year’s biggest upcoming films.“The ...

LAHORE – Famous researcher and Director of ‘Bazm-e-Iqbal’, Professor Muhammad Hanif Shahid during his address at the Aiwan-i-karkunan-i-Tehreek-i-Pakistan at a inter-schools speech competition in connection with “lqbal Day Celebrations” on Wednesday, said that we need ...

LAHORE (PR) – In an effort to recognize the support of organizations during the year 2012, Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Centre (SKMCH&RC) is organizing the annual Shaukat Khanum Social Responsibility Awards on April 11, 2013. Mian Muhammad Mansha, an eminent ...

LOS ANGELES - Luke Bryan and Miranda Lambert won big Sunday as Nashville's biggest names took over Las Vegas for the 48th Academy of Country Music awards. Bryan, 36, was overcome with emotion as Shania Twain presented him with the fan-voted entertainer of the year award at the climax of a ...

ISLAMABAD –Teradata Corporation (NYSE: TDC), the leading data analytic solutions company, has announced the winners for 11th Teradata National Information Technology (IT) Excellence Awards at an awards ceremony held in Islamabad. Twelve Awards were given to the best of the best in the ...

ISLAMABAD - OGDCL has awarded a contract for development of Kunar Pasakhi Deep and Tando Allah Yar Field Development Project-Phase-II in a simple ceremony. The project consists of gas gathering system, which will convert 250 mmwefd of raw gas into 225 mmwefd of pipeline quality gas and is expected ...

KARACHI - Chief of the Naval Staff Admiral Muhammad Asif Sandila on Thursday conferred military awards on Pakistan Navy officers and men in an impressive investiture ceremony held here at Bahria Auditorium.The recipients of Hilal-i-Imtiaz (Military) are Vice Admiral Shafqat Jawed, Vice Admiral ...

An English language Indian daily, The Hindu, in its latest report stated that “one hundred and fifty more people, including Indian President Pranab Mukherjee, and organisations will be honoured in the fourth of a series of ceremonies to be held on Victory Day for extending their wholehearted ...

Cricketing legend Imran Khan led a protest of former Pakistan captains over off-spinner Saeed Ajmal's omission from a list of annual awards, terming it a great injustice.The wily spinner was not included in a shortlist of four players for the best Test player of the year category in the ...

LAHORE – Shaukat Khanum Cancer Hospital has introduced the annual Social Responsibility Awards. In this connection, the second Shaukat Khanum Social Responsibility awards giving ceremony was organized  on Monday, says a press release..Imran Khan, chairman board of governors, Shaukat ...

An Anti-terrorism Court (ATC) on Thursday handed over former Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) MPA Aslam Madhiana to police for two-day physical remand in teacher torture case.Aslam Madhiana was arrested on Tuesday in Lahore after the Lahore High Court cancelled his interim bail. The accused fled ...

LONDON (Reuters) The MTV Europe Music Awards (EMA) will be held on November 11 in Frankfurt, returning to the Germany city which also hosted the annual ceremony in 2001, the music channel announced. The EMA show is billed as a celebration of music from around the globe, although it tends to focus ...

KARACHI – Etisalat has won three of the sector’s most prestigious international awards at the recently held annual 2012 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, says a press release.Etisalat received two GSMA Global Mobile Awards in the ‘Best Mobile Health Innovation’ and ...

SANTA MONICA, California (Reuters) - Silent movie romance “The Artist” on Saturday won four Independent Spirit Awards, the year’s top honours among movies made outside Hollywood’s major studios, including best film and director in a prelude to the Oscars.“The ...

PARIS  - Black-and-white silent movie “The Artist” scooped up six Cesar awards including best film and best actress on Friday in France’s annual version of the Academy Awards, further raising French hopes it could do well at the Oscars this weekend.A misty-eyed flashback to ...

LAHORE – United Bank Limited’s Branchless Banking Division, Omni is an established name in G2P Payments Services. It is one of the largest Branchless Banking cash disbursement initiatives to date and has proved to be a quick and transparent mechanism for the way cash disbursements are ...