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Express Tribune
3 days ago
- Sport
- Express Tribune
Shoaib Akhtar faces legal action from Dr Nauman Niaz over televised remarks
Listen to article Television host and former Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) official Dr Nauman Niaz has served a defamation notice of Rs1 billion to former Pakistan cricketer Shoaib Akhtar. The notice follows a televised statement made by the former Pakistani pacer during an appearance on a TV programme on May 25. During the broadcast segment titled The Dug Out, Shoaib stated that Dr Nauman 'used to carry our bags' and that 'he was kept for that purpose.' The remark was circulated on social media and received widespread attention. A legal notice, dated May 29, was issued by Dr Nauman's legal counsel. The document states that the comment was factually incorrect, and that it was intended to harm Dr Nauman's professional standing. The notice demands a public apology and formal retraction within 14 days, failing which legal proceedings will be initiated under the Defamation Ordinance 2002. Dr Nauman has previously held positions within the Pakistan Cricket Board, and has written articles for various national and international publications. The notice states that the comment by Shoaib reduced his professional history to a claim unsupported by evidence. The statement is described in the legal document as part of a broader pattern of conduct that Dr Nauman alleges has continued for the past three years. Shoaib has not issued a response to the notice as of the date of reporting. A previous incident involving Shoaib and Dr Nauman occurred in October 2021, during a live broadcast of PTV (Pakistan Television Corporation) Sports' programme. The panel also featured international cricket personalities including Sir Vivian Richards, David Gower, Sana Mir, and Umar Gul, and was focused on Pakistan's five-wicket win against New Zealand in a T20 World Cup match. READ MORE: Niaz, Akhtar taken off air after on-screen spat During the discussion, Shoaib credited the Pakistan Super League's Lahore Qalandars franchise for discovering fast bowlers Shaheen Shah Afridi and Haris Rauf. Dr Nauman interrupted the exchange, stating on air that Shoaib was 'being a little rude' and added, 'If you're being over-smart then you can go. I am saying this on air.' Following a commercial break, Shoaib apologised to the other panel members and announced his resignation from PTV Sports, stating that he could not continue due to the manner in which he had been treated on national television. Subsequently, the PTV issued a Rs100 million recovery notice to Shoaib in relation to the incident and his resignation. Shoaib described the move as disappointing and said he would contest the matter legally. Shoaib Akhtar clocked the fastest delivery in cricketing history at 161.3 km/h (100.23 mph) during a 2003 World Cup match versus England - a speed record that stands unbeaten.
Time of India
24-05-2025
- Politics
- Time of India
‘Ashan don', 70 Pakistan numbers, 15 phones, 300Gb data: How 'spy' Arman's digital footprint exposed a network
CHANDIGARH: Investigations and interrogation of Arman, a resident of a village under the Nagina police station in Nuh, revealed that he had changed more than 15 mobile phones in a short span of time. During the probe, agencies discovered 70 mobile numbers from Pakistan saved under suspicious aliases such as 'Ashan Don' and 'G'. Investigation agencies also claimed to have recovered data from a defence expo and other information shared by him with Danish, the Pakistan high commission official, and other agencies. He was produced before a in on Friday and remanded him to judicial custody. Arman was arrested on May 17. Also, a in Kaithal remanded Devinder Dhillon, a resident of Mastgarh village in Kaithal, who was also arrested for spying, to judicial custody. Senior officials said, 'While exact data retrieved from his devices was over 300 GB, which is still in forensic analysis, important crucial evidence has been recovered, and he was no longer required for interrogation.' Meanwhile, enquiries revealed that Mohammad Tareef, who is still lodged in the custody of Nuh police, has been interrogated by NIA and other central agencies in the past two days. Tareef is learned to be in touch with Pakistan high commission officials. He shared information. In another related case, Panipat police are interrogating Nauman, a migrant from Kairana in UP, for espionage from Panipat. Police claimed to have found him linked to a terrorist settled in Pakistan, and through him, he was found to be involved in spying for Pakistani agencies. Haryana police have so far arrested five persons, including YouTuber Jyoti Malhotra, on charges of spying. Nauman was the first to be arrested. Get the latest lifestyle updates on Times of India, along with Brother's Day wishes , messages and quotes !
Yahoo
23-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Gallery: Luxury lakeside lodge that comes with two islands is yours for $4.25M
A luxury estate in rural Hayward, Wisconsin, has hit the market for $4.25 million. Birch Point Lodge, constructed in 2012 with reclaimed red pine, birch paneling and log trusses and featuring a magnificent Great Hall complete with a Wisconsin granite fireplace, is the centerpiece of a 39-acre plot in wooded wilderness. Set on the shore of Tiger Cat Flowage, the property comes with more than 2,000 feet of shoreline and two islands on the lake. Sign up for our MINNESOTA PROPERTY newsletters View the 47 images of this gallery on the original article The main lodge is stunningly appointed, with its chef's kitchen complete with a walnut-topped island, marble counters, and Sub-Zero and Viking appliances. A dramatic dining room features the work of blacksmith Dan Nauman, one of a number of artisans who contributed to the property. Nauman created a 3-tiered chandelier with iron rings and chains, supporting three sets of elk antlers, decorated with birch leaves. The lower level provides space for entertaining, including a family room with fireplace and inglenook, a game room, a bunk room, a copper-topped bar, wine cellar, a gym and a lakeside changing room with marble showers and handcrafted lockers. More from the listing: "Across its expansive layout, the home offers multiple porches, a cascading stone staircase, cantilevered timber stairway, and custom oak bookcases hewn from a tree once rooted on the bedroom suites feature reclaimed wood floors, birch built-ins, forest views, and stone-accented en-suite baths. A luxurious home spa includes a sauna, steam shower, and soaking tub overlooking the woods." If the majestic main lodge wasn't enough, the property also comes with a standalone guest house a short distance away along the lake. Dean Schlaak and Tom DeGree, of Edina Realty, have the listing for Birch Point Lodge.
Chicago Tribune
16-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Chicago Tribune
From the Farm: Morel mushroom season in full swing, heralded by annual Ottawa fest
My longtime journalist pal Bob Tita was a newsroom desk neighbor of mine two decades ago before he left Northwest Indiana in 2002 to become a reporter for Crain's Chicago Business, and later, a similar writing position for the Dow Jones. Bob was born and raised in Berwyn, Illinois, and now, he and his editor wife Polly Smith, who was also one of my early editors, live in Bob's parent's family home in Berwyn. For years, Bob would tell me about the annual Houby Festival held in Berwyn and one of the wacky memories of his Chicago-raised youth. 'Houby' is Czech/Slovak as the Bohemian word for 'mushroom' or 'sponge.' Launched in fall 1968, the Houby Festival expanded over the years to swallow up joint hosting duties for both the neighborhoods of Berwyn and Cicero, usually held the first weekend of October and including returning features and festivities such as mushroom dining delicacies sold as food fare, a carnival, a Mushroom Parade, a crowning of a Mushroom Queen Pageant competition, live music and many attendees donning traditional Eastern European attire. The three-day celebration, now in its 57th year, is hailed as the International Houby Festival and draws an estimated 88,000 attendees. It's now only fall fungi that get the royal treatment. At our farm, we've been scouring our fields for spring morels, the delicate, honeycomb, coned-cap mushroom delicacies. About 90 minutes south of both Northwest Indiana and Chicago is Ottawa, Illinois, population just over 18,000. During my journalism career, the claim-to-fame I've always associated with Ottawa is that it's the hometown and headquarters of registered nurse-turned-celebrity-weight-loss/healthy eating advocate Seattle Sutton. She grew her small business of catering healthy, fresh prepared meals delivered from her home kitchen in 1985 into a multi-million brand and empire, which she later sold in 2018. Today, at age 93, she enjoys retirement with family. In more recent years, Ottawa became associated with the world of 'mushroom hunting,' with an emphasis on giving spring morel mushrooms their due as a treasured menu favorite of the Midwest. Earlier this month, on the weekend of May 3, Ottawa hosted the 11th Annual Midwest Morel Festival. This was a special year because the festival honored the passing of its founder, Tom Nauman, of Henry, Illinois, who died at age 74 in February. It was Nauman's idea to invite guests to his hometown community to join him on his guided mushroom hunts. According to Nauman's published obituary: 'His passion in life was morel mushrooms, so he founded Morel Mania, Inc. The story goes that after seeing a carved morel at a craft fair, he said, 'I can do better than that!' and so he did. In addition to offering hand-carved morel 'decoys,' shroom sticks, and various other accouterments for the eclectic morel maniacs of the world, he founded and ran the Illinois State Morel Mushroom Hunting Championship from 1995-2004, first in Magnolia, Illinois, then in Henry, and finally in Ottawa. 'The 2002 hunt, with 697 participants, was the largest gathering of mushroom hunters anywhere –ever. In more recent years, the hunt and festival made a revival in Ottawa, being rebranded as the Midwest Morel Fest. The Ottawa Visitors Center presented him with an 'Honorary Fungi' award for his contributions to the community in May 2024.' Even if the guided public mushroom hunts are sold out (which happens often), there are still plenty of fresh morel mushrooms sold during the festival along with food vendors, live music and entertainment. The festival is hosted by the 'groovy' mascot Mr. Morel, who loves to pose for photos. For more information about the morel festival, has details, as does for Houby Festival. Today's rich and delicious mushroom bisque recipe is from Chef Melvin Taylor, who spent years as the head of the kitchen operations at Horseshoe Casino in Hammond. He served this delectable creamy soup recipe in the ballroom of the Horseshoe for the New Year's Eve celebration dinner that welcomed the arrival of 2006. When he shared the recipe with me, he said it has been served to and enjoyed by Ivana Trump, actor Richard Roundtree and sports greats Michael Jordan, Dick Butkus and Brian Urlacher. 1 quart chicken broth 1 pound assorted fresh mushrooms of choice, chopped 1 small onion, finely chopped 6 tablespoons butter 6 tablespoons all-purpose flour 8 tablespoons half-and-half 1 bay leaf 1 teaspoon salt White pepper Hot sauce Directions: 1. In a 2-quart pot, bring chicken broth to a boil. Add mushrooms and onions and bring back to a simmer. 2. Reduce heat to a slow simmer and cover for at least 1 hour. 3. In a separate pot, prepare a roux by melting butter and slowly adding flour. Whisk until evenly incorporated. 4. Continue to whisk roux while slowly adding half-and-half. Add bay leaf to thickening sauce and stir briskly. Remove bay leaf and discard. 5. Add roux to mushroom broth and stir until blended. Add seasonings, including white pepper and hot sauce to taste. Serve immediately.
Los Angeles Times
07-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Los Angeles Times
Bruce Nauman's pensive Conceptual art from the 1970s seems timely again
Out in the back garden of Marian Goodman Gallery in Hollywood, a solid steel square, four feet wide and four inches thick, sits on the gravel covered ground. 'Dark' is a legendary 1968 sculpture, one that caused great consternation when first shown at an annual purchase competition at Southwestern College in Chula Vista, south of San Diego, where it won the $1,900 first prize. Adjusted for inflation, that's more than $17,000 today — not an insignificant chunk of change for a '60s art contest. Some were outraged. A blank steel plate, apparently just waiting to rust? Local sculptor Frank James Morgan, whose conventional portrait busts and stylized bronzes of women had gained some notice, wasn't having it, and he denounced Nauman's sculpture as 'junk' in a letter to the San Diego Union. Artist John Baldessari, a competition organizer just then getting traction for his own Dada-inspired anti-art, leapt to its defense in a three-page, 18 bullet-point text. At Goodman, the sculpture sets up 'Bruce Nauman: Pasadena Years,' a modestly scaled but museum-quality survey of his work from 1969 to 1979, the prolific decade when the now critically lauded artist lived in Los Angeles. (A resident of New Mexico since then, Nauman is 83.) Two dozen works are on view, including sculptures, installations, videotapes, drawings and prints, plus the artist's book 'LAAir,' featuring 10 full-page color photographs said to show the city's famous smog. The book's title makes a droll pun for 'lair,' a villainous place of danger or death, while his vivid, mostly monochrome abstract photographs of poisoned atmosphere wittily recall fashionable Color Field paintings. 'Dark' immediately predated his move from Northern California. The dust-up that ensued among artists and critics was another signal that the region was continuing to mature as a center for the production and presentation of provocative new art. 'Dark' doesn't look like much. The solid but shallow steel box, weighing in at a reported 1.3 tons, was an example of a recently emerging, stripped-down Minimalist aesthetic. The artist's last name is written in block letters along one edge, but there's some confusion over whether the artist or the school added it later as an identifier. There was also the matter of the sculpture's title, 'Dark,' which referred to the artist's claim that the word had been scrawled on the underside of the brute slab. Was the word 'dark' just meant to describe what was under there — darkness, the absence of light beneath a space-gobbling hunk of immovable material? Was it inscribed as a mordant Dada riposte to the shimmering ephemerality of Light and Space art, the perceptual spatial enigmas by Robert Irwin, Doug Wheeler and others who were fashioning the first wholly original art form to emerge from sunny Southern California? Maybe. But encountering 'Dark' now, something else stands out: There is no way for a viewer to know for certain whether the word is really written on the underside, beneath all that obdurate tonnage. None. It's unknowable. A viewer, and not just the gravel beneath the steel plate, is in the dark. Aside from the general 'don't touch' social prohibition hovering in the presence of any art object, lifting this particular weighty slab is impossible. You'll simply have to take the artist's word for it that the declaration is written there. The confrontation with Nauman's sculpture is a blunt exercise in artistic faith — an expression of trust between artist and audience, and an agreement to play together. If you can't grant that, you probably should just walk away from art — this or any other. That contemporary art might be a dubious realm populated by frauds and charlatans seems quaint today, but once upon a time it was a standard assumption. It was there from the beginning. In 1916, at the first large-scale U.S. exhibition of Modern American art held in New York City, the acerbic critic at The Nation magazine gave the stink-eye to claims of the avant-garde's artistic seriousness. 'Many persons are most seriously convinced that the world is flat,' wrote Frank Jewett Mather, looking down his nose, 'the poor whites of certain Southern regions are most seriously convinced that clay is a delicious comestible. But their seriousness doesn't matter, and I think that the seriousness of these Modernists matters very little.' Nauman, at a tumultuous and perplexing period of upheaval politically, socially and artistically, was getting down to basics. For 1968, which has been called 'the year that shattered America,' such a compact of faith at the core of 'Dark' — and a contract between strangers, no less — is no cavalier thing. Neither is it today. Civil rights, gender equality, Vietnam, student protest — so many divisive crises then are being repeated now, in our time of advancing darkness, with Ukraine and Gaza replacing Southeast Asia. Nauman's sculpture is thoroughly non-figurative, but its inescapable social and political dimensions resonate anew. So do those of 'Performance Corridor,' a baffling installation made when Nauman moved into a Raymond Ave. studio the following year. He was 27, with a wife and son, and they shared a rambling Craftsman house nearby, owned by curator and art dealer Walter Hopps, with artist Richard Jackson. Hopps was a wealth of information about Dada godfather Marcel Duchamp, whose now legendary 1963 retrospective he had organized for the Pasadena Art Museum. Nauman paid close attention to Duchamp's penchant for an art of puns and conundrums. As a sculpture, 'Performance Corridor' might be even more initially mute than 'Dark,' but it ends up speaking volumes. The corridor, eight feet tall and 20 feet long, is built from ordinary wall board and exposed two-by-four struts. One end is flush against a gallery wall, and looking into the unembellished corridor from the open end isn't promising. Roughly shoulder-width, it invites one person at a time to walk down the hall looking straight ahead. Arriving at the blank gallery wall at the end of a restricted, uneventful walk, one's immediately puzzled thought is, 'Why am I here?' And, after all, that is the question, isn't it? The performance in 'Performance Corridor' isn't something Nauman is doing, beyond performing a set-up for any art viewer to be nudged into wondering: Why am I here? Existential inquiry is an artistic staple, but typically it tends toward big gestures and grand declarations — see extravagant and flamboyant Abstract Expressionist paintings of the late-1940s and 1950s for examples. Nauman's, however, is refreshingly without illusions or pretensions. Also in 1969, although not part of the fine Goodman gallery exhibition, he sketched out a paradoxical skywriting sculpture that wasn't executed until 40 years later, when finally, it was performed in 2019 from a small airplane flying over Pasadena's Rose Bowl. 'Leave the land alone,' the ephemeral skywriting said in puffs of wispy smoke. The aerial sentiment about environmental degradation below also artfully invokes individual human mortality, when just a slight pause precedes the final word. Leave the land — alone. Nauman's skywriting drifted for a moment in the late-summer breeze, then disappeared. Marian Goodman Gallery, 1120 Seward St., Hollywood, (310) 312-8294, through April 26. Closed Sunday and Monday.
