Literature

Obama hails Nobel winner Dylan as one of ‘favorite poets’

WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama on Thursday congratulated Bob Dylan on what he called his… Read More

Alfred Nobel used dynamite fortune to create prizes

STOCKHOLM: Swedish inventor and scholar Alfred Nobel, who made a vast fortune from his invention… Read More

‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ author Harper Lee dies at 89

Harper Lee, who wrote one of America's most beloved literary classics, "To Kill a Mockingbird,"… Read More

Printing press seized in Lahore for publishing militants’ literature

LAHORE: The security forces in Lahore raided a local printing press publishing literature of banned… Read More

Pakistan Ulema Council prepares code of conduct for Muharram

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Ulema Council has prepared a 10 point code of conduct to ensure law and… Read More

Writer claims discovery of Shakespeare’s only portrait

LONDON: A British magazine has published an image of a figure that it says is… Read More

‘Militant’ arrested in Lahore, Daesh literature seized

LAHORE: A member of banned terrorist outfit was captured in Lahore on Thursday, ARY News… Read More

Was Sherlock Holmes based on a real person?

Created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes lives on as one of the best-known… Read More

Egypt burns books it says promote violence, Brotherhood ideas

CAIRO: Egypt has extended its crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood to include burning books it… Read More

J.K Rowling says her crime thriller series will outnumber ‘Harry Potter’

YATE:  The ‘Harry Potter’ author J.K Rowling has revealed that her crime novels written under… Read More

South African Nobel Prize-winning author Nadine Gordimer dies

JOHANNESBURG: South African Nobel Prize-winning author Nadine Gordimer, an unwavering moralist who became one of the… Read More