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MUMBAI: Miss Universe 2017 Demi-Leigh Nel-Peters while arriving at Mumbai international airport was taken by surprise as airport customs asked her to pay Rs 4 lakhs Indian rupees in customs duty for a mere replica of her original crown. The South African beauty pageant winner arrived in India to judge a beauty contest. Though she arrived at Mumbai Airport at 7 pm in the evening she was not allowed to leave till 1 am in the morning! Miss Universe Demi-Leigh had been crowned Miss Universe in 2017 though while traveling she did not bring the original Rs 1.77 crore crown to Mumbai but had brought a replica instead. Immigration officers asked about the value of the replica, and arrived at an estimate of Rs 11 lakh. After some confusion about whether duty ought to be charged on the crown, the customs officers concluded that beauty pageants are not exempted from the fee. After a hue and cry for six hours, Demi-Leigh paid R4 lakh and was then allowed to leave. Her team informed that th

LONDON: Coca-Cola on Friday said it had agreed to buy global coffee chain Costa from its UK owner Whitbread for$5.1 billion. “Hot beverages is one of the few remaining segments of the total beverage landscape where Coca-Cola does not have a global brand. Costa gives us access to this market through a strong coffee platform,” Coca-Cola chief executive James Quincey said in a joint statement. The deal comes amid eroding consumer demand for conventional carbonated drinks owing to health and obesity concerns in the US and other markets. Earlier in August, Coca-Cola’s fierce rival PepsiCo struck a deal to buy Israeli company SodaStream for $3.2 billion — in a pitch to consumers concerned also about mounting waste from soda cans and plastics in landfills worldwide. Meanwhile, following pressure from activist shareholders, Whitbread announced in April that it would spin off Costa, leaving it to concentrate on its hotel chain Premier Inn. Whitbread was forced to act after US group Elliot

KARACHI: Netflix a subscription-based streaming website based in LA has now taken a decision to charge its Pakistani users in their local currency.  On Monday Netflix in a statement said: “this change is part of our ongoing work to improve Netflix for our members in Pakistan”.   Its recent Hindi original series “The sacred games” featuring Saif Ali Khan and Nawazuddin Siddiqui took the south Asian users by storm. Additionally, Netflix also showcases various popular Pakistani TV dramas and films to users around the world. Movies like Janaan, Ho Mann Jahaan, Waar, Wrong No. and other are available to stream at leisure on Netflix. The post Netflix to now charge its Pakistanis users in rupees appeared first on ARYNEWS .

QUETTA: Newly appointed Balochistan High Court (BHC) Chief Justice Syeda Tahira Safdar took the oath of her office on Saturday.  Governor Balochistan Muhammad Khan Achakzai administered the oath to the chief justice at a ceremony in the provincial capital. The governor read out the oath while she followed him. She became the first woman to be appointed to the post of any high court’s chief justice in Pakistan.   Chief Justice of Pakistan Mian Saqib Nisar had given the go-ahead to her appointment as the BHC chief justice. Ms Tahira succeeded Muhammad Noor Musjabzai who retired from the post of the BHC chief justice on Friday. She became the first lady to be appointed as a civil judge in Balochistan, and has also privilege of being the first lady to be appointed to all the posts she has previously held, according to her biography posted on Balochistan High Court website. Justice Safdar was born to a renowned lawyer’s family on October 5, 1957, in Quetta. She received her basic edu

KARACHI: Chief Justice of Pakistan Mian Saqib Nisar on Saturday paid a brief visit to the Ziauddin hospital where he met with ailing former Sindh minister Sharjeel Memon who is undergoing treatment there. The chief justice arrived at the hospital in Clifton amid tight security and visited its different wards. He also went to the room where the PPP leader is being treated. He reportedly stayed in Memon’s room for two to three minutes. It may be mentioned here that Ziauddin hospital is owned by PPP leader Dr Asim Hussain. Afterwards, the top judge was driven to the National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases (NICVD) where he examined health facilities being provided there. He, then, traveled to the apex court’s Karachi registry to take up different cases. Yesterday, the Supreme Court had rejected Sharjeel Memon’s bail plea in a graft case filed against him by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB). The bench was informed that the PPP leader, who was arrested in October last ye

KARACHI: The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has restored the licence of the Shaheen Air International (SAI) to run its operation in order to bring back Haj pilgrims from Saudi Arabia.  The CAA spokesperson said the airline’s licence has been restored for the purpose of post-Haj operation. He said more than 325 Haj pilgrims have been left stranded at Madina airport for the last 24 hours. The permission to repatriate them was granted solely on humanitarian grounds, he added. The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) had suspended the flight operation over a conflict over nonpayment of arrears totaling over Rs.1.4 billion by the airline. It may be mentioned here that more than 200 Pakistanis were stranded in a Chinese city for over a week when the CAA suspended the airline’s flight operation last month. Taking notice of media reports about the ordeal of the passengers, Chief Justice of Pakistan Mian Saqib Nisar had ordered the airline to immediately bring them back. Afterwards, the CAA ga

BERLIN: The European Union said on Friday it would propose a legal change that would end the ritual of switching between summer and winter time, leaving it up to governments across the bloc to agree on whether to permanently use summer time or winter time. The proposal comes after a survey found 84 percent of 4.6 million citizens across the EU’s 28 member states opposed changing the clocks ahead in the summer or back in the winter or just opposed switching either way. In response, the EU’s chief executive, Jean-Claude Juncker, said Brussels would propose scrapping an EU law requiring member states to change their clocks. “Millions … believe that summertime should be all the time,” Juncker said on German television. Since 1996, EU law has been moving clocks forward an hour on the last Sunday in March and back an hour on the final Sunday in October. The proposal would drop that requirement, a Commission spokesman said. He rebuffed suggestions that would lead to confusing variations

WASHINGTON: The United States’ top spy catcher said Chinese espionage agencies are using fake LinkedIn accounts to try to recruit Americans with access to government and commercial secrets, and the company should shut them down. William Evanina, the US counter-intelligence chief, told Reuters in an interview that intelligence and law enforcement officials have told LinkedIn, owned by Microsoft Corp., about China’s “super aggressive” efforts on the site. He said the Chinese campaign includes contacting thousands of LinkedIn members at a time, but he declined to say how many fake accounts US intelligence had discovered, how many Americans may have been contacted and how much success China has had in the recruitment drive. German and British authorities have previously warned their citizens that Beijing is using LinkedIn to try to recruit them as spies. But this is the first time a U.S. official has publicly discussed the challenge in the United States and indicated it

WASHINGTON: The United States on Friday halted all funding to a U.N. agency that helps Palestinian refugees in a decision further heightening tensions between the Palestinian leadership and the Trump administration. A spokesman for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas denounced the decision as “a flagrant assault against the Palestinian people and a defiance of U.N. resolutions.” State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said the business model and fiscal practices of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency  (UNRWA) were an “irredeemably flawed operation.” “The administration has carefully reviewed the issue and determined that the United States will not make additional contributions to UNRWA,” she said in a statement. Nauert said the agency’s “endlessly and exponentially expanding community of entitled beneficiaries is simply unsustainable and has been in crisis mode for many years.” The latest announcement comes a week after the administration said it would redirect $200 mi

ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) is starting the process of online registration of the overseas Pakistanis as voters from today. The process will continue till September 15. Talking to media in the federal capital, ECP official Nadeem Qasim said expatriate Pakistanis possessing valid machine-readable passports (MRP) and National Identity Card for Overseas Pakistanis (NICOP) can get them registered as voters. He said the online registration system has been developed in collaboration with NADRA. To a question, he said it is a pilot project and the overseas Pakistanis can get them registered as voters to exercise their right to franchise in the upcoming by-elections in the country. Qasim said over 700,000 overseas Pakistanis will be able to get their vote registered through the newly developed system. The ECP is scheduled to conduct by-polls on 11 National Assembly and 26 provincial assembly seats on October 14. The post ECP starts registration of overseas Pakis

LOS ANGELES: An Apple Inc self-driving car was rear-ended while merging onto an expressway near the company’s Silicon Valley headquarters this month. The company said in an accident report posted on Friday that confirmed the iPhone maker is still in the race to build autonomous vehicles. Apple executives have never publicly spoken about the company’s self-driving car program, but filings in a criminal court case last month confirmed that the company had at least 5,000 employees working on the project and that it was working on circuit boards and a “proprietary chip” related to self-driving cars. Apple is entering a crowded field where rivals such as Alphabet Inc’s Waymo unit and traditional carmakers such as General Motors Co’s Cruise Automation, as well as startups such as Silicon Valley’s Zoox, are pouring billions of dollars into cars that can drive themselves. On Aug. 24, one of Apple’s Lexus RX 450h self-driving test vehicles in “autonomous mode” was merging south on the Lawr

NEW YORK: Oil prices slipped on Friday, pressured by renewed concerns that a global trade war could dent energy demand, although impending U.S. sanctions on Iran and falling Venezuelan output limited the decline. Benchmark Brent crude oil fell 42 cents to $77.35 a barrel by 1:35 p.m. EDT (1735 GMT). U.S. crude slipped 36 cents to $69.89. For the month, global benchmark Brent was set to jump 4.3 percent and U.S. crude 1.6 percent. Oil has been buoyed by tumbling Venezuelan output and declining shipments from Iran ahead of the imposition of U.S. sanctions on Tehran in November. On Friday, however, oil “appears to be following equities lower amidst renewed U.S./Chinese tariff concerns that could easily escalate in slowing global economic growth and, hence, world oil demand,” Jim Ritterbusch, president of Ritterbusch and Associates, said in a note. The MSCI Emerging Markets index fell for a second day as a report that U.S. President Donald Trump was preparing to step up a trade war wi

WASHINGTON: Canada and the United States faced roadblocks as they went down to the wire Friday in talks to salvage the North American Free Trade Agreement, and one may have come from dealmaker-in-chief Donald Trump. With the US deadline to get an agreement by Friday, there were reports the sides were struggling to find compromise on the NAFTA mechanism for resolving trade disputes and on Canada’s managed dairy market. And then came reports from the Toronto Star that Trump boasted in an interview that he was playing hardball with Canada in the negotiations “If I say no — the answer’s no. If I say no, then you’re going to put that, and it’s going to be so insulting they’re not going to be able to make a deal… I can’t kill these people,” according to the report, citing off-the-record comments made in the interview Thursday with Bloomberg The newspaper said officials in the government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who had been optimistic about reaching a deal with Washington, were

Commemorating what would’ve been his 88th birthday, Google paid tribute to Pakistan’s legendary playwright  Fatima Surayya Bajia on Saturday. As people opened the world’s most famous search engine on Saturday, they were greeted with a doodle dedicated to the legendary playwright who made Pakistan proud around the world. Born in Indian city of Hyderabad on September 1, 1930. Bajia, along with her family, arrived in Pakistan after the partition of the sub-continent. She did not have a formal degree but had acquired extensive knowledge of Arabic, Persian, English and Urdu literature and history at home through private tuitions. When her grandfather and father died in Karachi, she took up the responsibility of looking after her younger siblings. The lady made all her siblings receive a good education almost all of them successfully carved out their own identity in separate fields of art and culture. Her brother Anwar Maqsood became a multi-talented artist writing plays for TV and t

KABUL: Pakistan has closed the Consulate General in Jalalabad city in Nangarhar province of Afghanistan over meddling in the diplomatic office’s internal affairs by local officials. “The Embassy wishes to inform that the Consulate General will remain closed until the security arrangements are complete to the satisfaction of the embassy,” the Pakistani embassy in Kabul said in a press release on Friday. The embassy said the decision has been made in reaction to provincial governor Hayatullah Hayat’s intervention in activities of the consulate. “The Embassy of Pakistan in Kabul deeply regrets undue intervention of Governor Hayatullah Hayat in the functioning of the Consulate General of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan in Jalalabad is complete violation of the Vienna Convention of the Consular Relations 1963.” The embassy also said it has requested the Afghan Ministry of Foreign Affairs to “kindly refrain the governor from interfering in the functioning of the Consulate General and t

ISLAMABAD: The governments of Pakistan and the Netherlands have agreed to continue working together on issues of mutual interest, ARY News reported. Foreign Minister of the Netherlands Stef Blok on Friday reiterated his government’s position of disassociation with avowed anti-Islamist politician Geert Wilders’ activities and assured of continued cooperation. He said this in a telephonic conversation with Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi. This was the second telephonic conversation between the two foreign ministers this week. The foreign ministers discussed the announcement by the Dutch parliamentarian to call off the blasphemous caricature competition. Mehmood Qureshi noted that the timely efforts made by the two governments helped in achieving the desired result. He stressed on the need to work together to raise awareness and limiting the disturbing trend of Islamophobia, incitement to racial and religious hatred, and building bridges among civilizations. Read More: Dutch

Apple Inc said on Thursday it will host an event on Sept. 12 at the Steve Jobs Theater in the company’s Cupertino, California, campus, where it is widely expected to unveil new iPhone models. Analysts believe Apple plans to release three new smartphones this year, including one with a larger display than previous models. Analysts also expect Apple to release an iPhone with a edge-to-edge display similar to the iPhone X but using less-costly LCD screen technology. SPONSORED Apple’s event invitation made heavy use of the color gold, fueling speculation on social media that the company plans to launch a gold-colored successor to the iPhone X, which was made available only in silver and gray last year. Documents filed at the U.S. Federal Communications Commission unsealed earlier this year showed Apple had sought approval for a gold version of its iPhone X, but it never released the color. A few hours after Apple’s announcement, 9to5Mac, a technology news website, posted photographs

BRUSSELS: The thorny problem of the Irish border could yet scupper a Brexit deal, EU negotiator Michel Barnier warned after talks with his British counterpart Friday, saying “urgent” work was needed to find a solution. Avoiding a hard border between European Union member Ireland and the British province of Northern Ireland after Britain leaves the EU’s single market has become a major obstacle to finding a deal. After meeting British Brexit minister Dominic Raab in Brussels, Barnier hailed progress on some security issues but warned there were still major differences over protected geographical indicators like champagne and stilton — and Ireland. “There is an urgent need to work on the text of a operational backstop and that’s why I’ve asked Dominic and his team to provide us with the necessary data for technical work, which we need now, on the nature, location and methods of the checks that will be needed,” Barnier said. “This backstop is critical to conclude these negotiations b

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan on Friday denied demanding any details or record relating to PM House expenses during ex-premier Nawaz Sharif’s era, ARY News reported. According to ARY News Islamabad Bureau Chief Sabir Shakir,  the PM, in a meeting with senior journalists, was asked about a claim made by a journalist associated with a private media house that he demanded PM Office staff about expenses during the former PM Nawaz Sharif’s tenure and was showed cheques confirming the PML-N supreme leader paid expenses incurred on his family from his own pocket. “Neither I demanded Nawaz-era expenditure of PM House and nor was shown any record of payment by Nawaz Sharif,” Imran Khan replied. نہ میں نےسابق وزیراعظم نواز کے دور کا PMہاؤس کے اخراجات کا حساب مانگا نہ ہی مجھے کسی نے نواز شریف کی ادائیگیوں کے بارے میں ریکارڈ دکھایا۔PMعمران خان کا جواب۔ — sabir shakir (@ARYSabirShakir) August 31, 2018 The ARY News journalist also reported that Imran Khan answered all sorts of quest

VENICE, ITALY: It is the stuff of movie industry legend: the director of the best film ever made leaves behind an unfinished movie destined never to be seen – until now. Orson Welles shot “The Other Side of the Wind” in the early 1970s but gave up on it, leaving behind 100 hours of footage when he died in 1985. Five decades on from its conception, after years of financial and legal wrangling, the film has been completed, a gift to movie buffs who will probably spend the next 50 years decoding it. “The Other Side of the Wind”, which The Hollywood Reporter called “the Holy Grail for zealous film buffs, the long-awaited bookend for ‘Citizen Kane’,” is art imitating life imitating art: itself the story of an unfinished film left behind by a great director and reconstructed after his death. John Huston – a famous director in real life – plays Jake Hannaford who, hours before his death in a car crash, shows his unfinished movie to guests at his 70th birthday party. That film-within-a-

URAYASU, Japan: The reception at the Henn na Hotel east of Tokyo is eerily quiet until customers approach the robot dinosaurs manning the front desk. Their sensors detect the motion and they bellow “Welcome.” It might be about the weirdest check-in experience possible, but that’s exactly the point at the Henn na (whose name means ‘weird’) chain, which bills itself as offering the world’s first hotels staffed by robots. The front desk staff are a pair of giant dinosaurs that look like cast members of the Jurassic Park movies, except for the tiny bellboy hats perched on their heads. The robo-dinos process check-ins through a tablet system that also allows customers to choose which language — Japanese, English, Chinese or Korean — they want to use to communicate with the multilingual robots. The effect is bizarre, with the large dinosaurs gesticulating with their long arms and issuing tinny set phrases. Yukio Nagai, manager at the Henn na Hotel Maihama Tokyo Bay, admits some customer

RAWALPINDI: The Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) has released another promo for the campaign on Defence Day to pay tribute to the martyrs and their families. The promo titled “Hamaray Nishan-e-Haidar, Hamar Fakhar” (Our Nishan-e-Haider, Our Pride) pays tributes to the recipients of the Nishan-e-Haidar, the highest military gallantry award. The Nishan-e-Haider has only been award to ten members of the armed forces notably the martyrs of the wars of 1965 and 1971. The award has precedence over all other civil and military awards, and is awarded to those risked their lives and embraced martyrdom for the sake of the nation. The army has started a unique campaign this year to pay tribute to the martyrs and their families on September 6, and every Pakistani will be a part of this campaign by reaching out to their families across the country. یومِ دفاع و شہدا۶ 2018 ہمارۓ نشانِ حیدر ۔۔۔۔ ہمارا فخر! #ہمیں_پیار_ہے_پاکستان_سے ۔۔۔۔ pic.twitter.com/Ut93HPi9Zc — Maj Gen Asif Ghafoor

KARACHI: Both arms of an eight-year-old boy had to be amputated by doctors due to severe burns he had sustained after an 11,000-Volt electrical wire fell on him in Ahsanabad Sector-4 off Superhighway where he was playing last Saturday. Taking action after parents’ complaint and notice of the governor Sindh, police arrested seven employees of K-Electric from their Gadap area office and shifted them to police station. They said the investigation was underway to determine the person(s) responsible for the incident. Police said they will announce their later course of action after the ‘main culprit and person responsible for the incident surfaced. After the incident, Umar was rushed to a hospital where doctors diagnosed that his arms were wasted because of severe burns. Burns Center In-Charge Dr Ahmer said they tried their best to save the arms but to no avail. They had no option but to cut the forelimbs as they were critically burnt, he said. Parents of the victim had decided to ta

ISLAMABAD: The government has announced to reduce petroleum product prices by as much as six rupees a litre, ARY News reported. On recommendations of Oil & Gas Regulatory Authority (OGRA), Prime Minister Imran Khan has approved these changes in the prices of petroleum products. Prices of diesel and petrol were slashed by Rs6.37 and Rs2.41 a litre respectively. No significant changes were made in prices of kerosene oil and light diesel oil. Kerosene price was reduced by Rs0.46 a litre, while light diesel price was increased by Rs0.59 a litre. The new prices will take effect from 12:00am on Saturday (September 1). The post Govt cuts petrol price by Rs2 a litre appeared first on ARYNEWS .

ISLAMABAD: Federal government has decided to put Prime Minister’s House’s 33 bullet-proof cars on auction and has issued an advertisement inviting bids for the luxury vehicles, sources todl ARY News on Friday. According to ARY News correspondent, the cabinet division, on Prime Minister Imran Khan’s directives have issued an advertisement inviting bidders for the auction of 33 cars which include at least eight luxury BMW and four Mercedes Benz cars. The advertisment issued in this regard says the auction will be held on PM House on September 17 at 10AM and the money will be deposited in national kitty. Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry, in an informal conversation with reporters, said that the PTI government will try to sell the vehicles on the same price as their market value as the auction is aimed at fund-raising. The post Government to put PM House’s bullet-proof cars on auction appeared first on ARYNEWS .

BERLIN: One of two immigrants arrested for the fatal stabbing of a German man could have been deported in mid-2016, a German court said on Friday, news that risks fuelling far-right outrage about a case that has already sparked xenophobic protests. Family Minister Franziska Giffey laid flowers at the scene of the crime in the eastern German city of Chemnitz on Friday, the first member of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s cabinet to visit after an incident that has laid bare deep divisions over a 2015 decision to welcome over a million mostly Muslim migrants. She said the unrest that followed the stabbing was a wake-up call for the federal government to pay attention to public concerns, and suggested an additional cabinet minister or Merkel herself could visit the city at a later point. Michael Kretschmer, premier of the state of Saxony, where Chemnitz lies, said the failure to deport the suspect, a 22-year-old Iraqi man with multiple previous convictions, was the responsibility of federal

HEIDELBERG, Germany: Armed with a mouse and computer screen instead of a scalpel and operating theater, cardiologist Benjamin Meder carefully places the electrodes of a pacemaker in a beating, digital heart. Using this “digital twin” that mimics the electrical and physical properties of the cells in patient 7497’s heart, Meder runs simulations to see if the pacemaker can keep the congestive heart failure sufferer alive – before he has inserted a knife. The digital heart twin developed by Siemens Healthineers is one example of how medical device makers are using artificial intelligence (AI) to help doctors make more precise diagnoses as medicine enters an increasingly personalized age. The challenge for Siemens Healthineers and rivals such as Philips and GE Healthcare is to keep an edge over tech giants from Alphabet’s Google to Alibaba that hope to use big data to grab a slice of healthcare spending. With healthcare budgets under increasing pressure, AI tools such as the digital h

HONG KONG: China will conduct comprehensive inspections on all ride-hailing service companies, the transport ministry said on Friday, after a driver from dominant firm Didi Chuxing murdered a 20-year-old passenger this month. The inspections, starting from Sept. 5, will cover all ride-hailing service platforms nationwide, the ministry said in a statement. Didi said it welcomed the move and would fully cooperate to implement measures for improvement. “We accept the supervision and will do our best to improve our services to ensure the safety of the public,” Didi said in a statement posted on its official account on China’s Twitter-like Weibo website. The murder of the passenger who rode in a Didi vehicle took place in the eastern city of Wenzhou, and was the second such incident involving Didi since May. The latest case sparked outrage and raised concerns about safety in the fast-growing ride-hailing sector in China, prompting the company to say that it would suspend its Hitch ser

VENICE, ITALY: Lady Gaga, the pop singer rarely seen without strikingly coiffed hair and heavy makeup, said on Friday she had to go natural for her first starring role in a movie. Gaga plays a girl-next-door character who achieves her dream of becoming a famous singer in “A Star Is Born”, directed by co-star Bradley Cooper. “He wanted to see me with nothing,” Gaga told a news conference ahead of the film’s world premiere at the Venice Film Festival. “I walked down the stairs of my house before we filmed the screentest for ‘A Star Is Born’ and he had a make-up wipe in his hand and he put his hand on my face and he went like this,” she said, miming Cooper rubbing her face. “There was make-up, just a little bit, and he said: ‘I want no make-up on your face’. And so this vulnerability was something he brought out of me.” In the movie, Gaga’s character Ally is told her nose is too big and will prevent her becoming a success, something the 32-year-old singer said she empathised with.

ISLAMABAD: Minister for Foreign Affairs of Iran Javad Zarif on Friday called on Prime Minister Imran Khan and conveyed to him the greetings and best wishes of the people and leadership of Iran on assuming the office. Zarif said that Iran wished continued progress and prosperity to the people of Pakistan. He delivered a message of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and invited the prime minister for the upcoming Asian Cooperation Dialogue (ACD) Summit in Iran, in October 2018. Both Pakistan and Iran are members of the organization. Iran currently holds the chair of the organization. Welcoming the foreign minister, Imran Khan thanked the Iranian supreme leader’s support for Kashmiri’s struggle for self-determination as well as for the manner in which Pakistan Independence Day was celebrated in Iran. He thanked the foreign minister for the sincere wishes. Recalling his recent telephonic conversation with president Rouhani, Khan said that Pakistan and Iran were connected by inseparabl

Anushka Sharma has became a hit fodder for memes  from her upcoming film, Sui Dhaaga , which even her co-star Varun Dhawan could not resist from sharing. The Sui Dhaaga trailer released on August 13 to make way for innumerable memes, featuring Anushka Sharma, who plays a simple village woman named Mamta in the movie. And with each passing day, the internet keeps adding to the list of memes with hilarious takes on real-life situations. Many people couldn’t stop comparing a picture of her crying to their own lives, but later turned into a photoshopping battle and quickly went quite out of hand. Now, while the Internet is at its creative best when it comes to the memes, it’s none other than Varun Dhawan, who plays her husband Mauji in the movie, who isenjoying the memes. Varun spotted yet another meme featuring Mamta and sharing it on Twitter, he wrote: “Memes ki rani, Mamta.” Nevertheless, some of the results are hilarious and are being shared widely #MEMESkirani #mamta hhaha