The vibrant celebration, banned for two decades, brightened the eastern city of Lahore, where residents face alarming levels of air pollution and political restrictions. Lahore dispatch The vibrant ...

In the streets of Lahore, there are hints that the kite flying festival, Basant, has returned. Someone is fishing a kite from electricity cables, the distant sound of a drum beat, a flash of neon when ...

People in Pakistan have held a traditional kite-flying festival for the first time in 19 years. It was banned in 2007 after a series of fatal accidents. The Basant is a centuries-old event held in the ...

Lahore, Pakistan – Hasnain Khalid, 17, has never flown a kite. Over the past week, though, Khalid and his 27-year-old cousin, Noman Tariq, have bought 200 kites. They’re preparing for festivities that ...

Pakistanis are taking to rooftops across Lahore as they again celebrate the Basant festival by flying colorful kites above their city. The event had been banned due to the many deaths and injuries.

Three-day festival marking the arrival of spring is set to kick off in the city of Lahore on Friday Kite flying is the centerpiece of Basant, traditionally celebrated in both Indian and Pakistani ...

Families reunite on decorated rooftops as the festival returns under tight safety curbs. Dubai: After nearly two decades of silence in the skies, the colourful whirl of kites is set to return to ...

OpenAI has given software developers a new desktop toy, and judging by the early reactions, it might feel like someone finally handed coders the Swiss Army knife they’ve been dreaming about or the ...

Today, OpenAI launched a macOS desktop app for Codex, its large language model-based coding tool that was previously used through a command line interface (CLI) on the web or inside an integrated ...

Preparations for Basant have begun in Lahore, with the sale of kites, spools, and kite string officially starting here. Basant will be celebrated in the city on February 6, 7 and 8, and in this regard ...

All roads led to the Mina Park at the Old Doha Port over the weekend as the Qatar Kite Festival 2026 bespeckled the winter skies with colour and creativity. Running from January 15-24, the festival ...