Secret Revealed: Gigi Hadid's Kitchen Has Shan Masala

 

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While surfing the Internet, I came across this picture of Shan Masala collection, all beautifully lined up in containers. Do you know who is using the Shan Masala?

Yeah, it is none other than the international celebrity Gigi Hadid who is using Shan Foods Masala in her recipes. It looks Hadid has become a huge fan of desi spices. Recently she shared a click on her Instagram and people immediately noticed the Pakistani brand Shan Masala. There is tikka, tandoori, seekh kabab and garam masala in the collection. Even the turmeric container is labeled as Haldi.  It is a proud moment for all of us that Pakistani brand is making a further big hit as top-notch celebrities are now selecting Shan Masala for its high quality.

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No More Foggy Glasses; Use Battery Powered Face Mask!

 

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Photo: Reuters

A South Korean company has come up with a wonderful invention to fight the most annoying issues related to face masks for example fogged glasses, and breathing problems while wearing a mask.

The company has designed a battery-powered filtered face mask so that you can wear it for long hours without any difficulty amid coronavirus. Yes now you don’t have to worry about your foggy glasses or breathing difficulty as LG Electronics’ PuriCare Wearable features two fans and high-efficiency particle air filters that clean air coming in and exhaled breath going out.

The newly designed face mask comes in one size and is very light in weight. It comes with a case that charges the battery and purifies the mask with help of UV light. According to LG, the mask battery has eight hours life if setup on low-power settings. It can run for two hours if the setting is on highest side.

 It will available in selected markets as LG hasn’t setup a price for the mask. 

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Amputee Model Bernadette Hagans Stars As Latest Face Of Kurt Geiger Campaign

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Fashion designer Kurt Geiger is known for working with understated models of the fashion industry. Recently, Kurt Geiger did it again by hiring a Belfast cancer survivor whose leg amputated, as the new face of his People Empowered campaign.

The 24-year-old Bernadette Hagans was diagnosed with synovial sarcoma, an aggressive cancer of soft tissue. To save her life, she went through an ordeal of Limb Amputation in 2018. Walking with a prosthetic limb is not an easy task but the determined Hagans put her all energies in it and started walking with it.

Bernadette Hagans also an ambassador for children and young people's cancer charity CLIC Sargent, was so strongminded to return to normal life that she started her daily routine quickly and even signed with London-based agency Zebedee Management, which specializes in models with disabilities and alternative appearances.

After two years of hard work as an amputee model, Hagans is now the new face of Kurt Geiger's campaign People Empowered. 

She shared her new work with her Instagram family, 

“I’m wearing crystal lyon sneaker and the mini Kensington which are out now”

Hagans unveiled her new look on Instagram posts. In photos, she can be seen in a black hoodie, shocking neon quilted bag, and platform trainers. She stated her happiness that the fashion label selected right angles to show her prosthetic leg openly. 

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Karachi Eat Is Back With A Bang!

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The seventh edition of the biggest eat festival – Karachi Eat 2020 is back with a bang. This year, there are more than 100 eateries to tempt foodies. The three-day festival will give a chance to food lovers to taste sweet, savory and delicious food till 12^th January at the Beach View Park.

The 100 plus food stalls are set up by big multinationals to startups or home-based businesses. Keeping in mind the haphazard of previous experiences, the organizers are more precautious and have made some changes to accommodate the crowd. There are clear signs for directions, entry, and exit to avoid the rush.

The eateries will include Chipseez, (introducing their signature Beetroot, Sweet Potato, Potato Chips), Zoya’s Kitchen giving Cannoli (Italian pastries) and Lemon Grass, introducing Crying Tiger, Rigos ice cream, Churrosity will have Churro Hot Dog, Cloud Naan will have Chicken Naan, Spicogetti will introduce their new starter Chic ‘N’ Cheese Spaghetti along with signature Khausa, Singaporean Rice and Wrappeite will give you Bread Bowl Lasagna.

Some very distinctive titles will also be at Karachi eat 2020. These will include Drty Dogs, Khichdi Express, Brew Factory, Abid Chatkhara, Punjabi Dhaba, Arabi’s, Clucky’s, Lemon Grass, Leena’s Cevapi, Burger Boss, and D’oh.

Following are some picks from Karachi Eat 2020 that you must try out,

Made Easy

For a yummy sweet dessert, visit Made Easy stall by National Food Ltd. Here you will find the tasty Royal Falooda. Made Easy is also offering delectable Bun sliders with a unique filling made up of Nihari, Karhai, and Tika Boti. Their other items include Chullu kebab and other BBQ wraps Scene on chaat Lebanese magmour and Kachori. You can win a Free biryani on a digital game at the stall.  

Ice Cream by Rigos

Select the base of ice cream asper your choice and Rigos will add two gold flakes.

Brew Factory

As the Karachi is witnessing extra windy weather, the Brew factory’s coffee is favourite among the foodies.

Khichdi Express

This traditional food stall is offering yummy dishes including the khichdi, poppadoms, bhagaray baingan, khattay aloo, chutney, etc.

Delina

Don’t forget to try their latest addition, the Hot Mess dessert. Taste the unique taste of Lotus crumble, layers of caramel sauce, cream and cake all covered in a delicious sauce made from condensed milk.

2 Guys 1 Grll

If you are a fan of typical Chicken and Beef Burger than this 2 Guys 1 Grll is the place for you at Karachi Eat 2020.

The Nugget Town

Who can resist nuggets? Yes, no one can! The Nugget Town is offering crispy nuggets with Korean sauce, served with mac and cheese. A taste that you will remember.

Khan Haleem

You have heard about Matka Biryani and Matka Chai but this is something new. Khan Haleem will serve you their hot Haleem in a matka with a savory topping.

The above mentioned are some of the picks from the eat festivals. There are numerous others as well that you should try. 

On Sunday, the festival will be open for the public from 12:30pm to 10:30pm.

The Ticket costs Rs450. 

Happy eating! 

Photo: Web 

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Pakistan Launched New WHO Approved Typhoid Vaccine

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Pakistan has become the first country throughout the globe to launch the World Health Organization’s (WHO) approved Typhoid Conjugate Vaccine (TCV) to battle the epidemic of a drug-resistant strain (XDR).

The new anti-typhoid vaccine has been introduced during the immunization campaign "Mission Typhoid" started from November 19^th in Sindh province, where nearly 10,000 cases of the disease have been recorded since 2017. 

The TCV campaign is designed to vaccinate 10.1 million children, aged between 9 months and 15 years against the waterborne fatal disease. The vaccine offers a very beneficial solution to protect children from drug-resistant (XDR) typhoid, a serious illness caused by Salmonella Typhi.

“Within the two weeks, the campaign has successfully achieved 90% of its set target”, said Sindh EOC Project Director Dr Akram Sultan.

The new WHO-approved typhoid vaccines have been provided by Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, to the Pakistani government free of cost. “This vaccine (Typhoid Conjugate Vaccine) is pre-qualified by the World Health Organization, which means that its production is rigorously monitored by WHO. TCV is recommended for use by WHO because it’s safe and effective in granting the protection (against XDR typhoid)”, said WHO representative in Pakistan, Dr. Palitha Gunarathna Mahipala.

The UNICEF representative in Pakistan Aida Girma also expressed her views, “UNICEF fully endorses the Typhoid Conjugate Vaccine (TCV), a safe and efficient way to protect children against this deadly disease”.

Health professionals have expressed their apprehension about the outbreak of Typhoid in the country. According to their statistics, Pakistan's awful sewage, water systems, low vaccination rates along the over-populated abodes are the actual reasons behind the spread of drug-resistant typhoid. To combat the situation WHO tested and approved TCV has been introduced in Sindh province to curb the deadly disease. 

However, in the initial stage, some people show resistance towards mission typhoid campaign, as some cases of minor side effects were detected in some children, but WHO, UNICEF & local doctors and pediatricians endorsed the use of the vaccine. Prof Khalid Shafi, the vice president of the Pakistan Pediatric Association (PPA) said, ‘my daughter was the first child, who got the TCV shot in her arm when the vaccination campaign started in Sindh’.

As a part of the Mission Typhoid campaign, around 8000 + skilled and trained vaccinators supported the campaign along with 2 social mobilizers per vaccination team visited households to mobilize families to vaccination sites. 

It is also very important that people should be informed about the precautionary measure that apart from TCV vaccination, they should make sure to consume boiled drinking water, avoid rotten food items and always teach children about hand-washing, particularly after using the toilet.

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Accu Chek Pakistan Held 'Healthy Me' Poster Competition

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The theme for World Diabetes Day 2019 was Family and Diabetes. The theme was aimed to raise awareness of the diabetes effect on one’s family and promoting the support as well as the role of the family in managing, carefulness, prevention and acquiring knowledge of diabetes.

A lack of knowledge about this silent disease – diabetes means that noticing the early symptoms is not just a hindrance for family members, but it’s a bigger concern impacting the whole society. Do you know that diabetes was responsible for four million deaths in 2017? It was due to untreated or unmanaged diabetes that leads to life-changing impediments.

In order to create diabetes awareness in country, the Roche Pakistan, the pioneers in Diabetes Care, took a great initiative by engaging young children and school going students to highlight the significance of diabetes care, prevention, and alertness about the silent disease. The main focus was to educate them that how changing a lifestyle can prevent diabetes or help in managing it. The initiative aimed at helping students in understanding the symptoms and complications of diabetes. Diet plans were shared to teach them healthy eating routine from an early age to avoid obesity that can lead to diabetes.

The Accu Chek Pakistan, a brand of blood sugar-testing devices manufactured by Roche Diagnostics, organized a poster competition ‘Healthy Me’ as a drill to tell young minds that healthy living amongst children ensures a healthy future. 

Children were asked to draw, make posters to express their knowledge about World Diabetes Day theme; Family and Diabetes. The contest further enabled students to absorb the maximum information about the symptoms of diabetes and how Accu-Chek can help to monitor blood sugar levels.

The Healthy Me poster contest was judged by cricketer Mr. Wasim Akram, who himself is a diabetic patient and an inspiration for many people who want to be active and fit. The competition administration received hundreds of entries from schools all across Pakistan showing that such activity can really promote awareness among children and their families.

Following are some of the creative posters and illustrations that children made to highlight the importance of a healthy lifestyle and diet to prevent and control diabetes in families and children.

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President Arif Alvi Applauded CSR Initiatives of OICCI Memebers In Pakistan

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President Dr Arif Alvi who was the chief guest at CSR exhibition titled, “Impactful Journey: OICCI CSR Exhibition”, highlighted the need of creating greater awareness about fighting the new challenges of climate change. He urged country’s corporate sector to play more useful role in this regard.

Dr Arif Alvi was addressing the members of the Overseas Investors Chamber of Commerce and Industry (OICCI) at an Exhibition of CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) at a local hotel. He further added,

 “It is great to learn about the huge impact of foreign investors in social uplift across the country and about their efforts to improve the lives of our fellow countrymen, the ones who are not as privileged as others.”

The President appreciates the role of OICCI members for social change in Pakistan, “it is important that the private sector joins hands with the government to develop the marginalized communities of the country and in this respect I am thankful to the OICCI member companies who have demonstrated their commitment to Corporate Social Responsibility projects that are helping our communities”.

He told audience that government is taking strong measures to create an improved environment for business community that would result in more investment in the country.

The president referred to the newest World Bank report that listed Pakistan among the top 20 well performing economies. He pressed the country’s corporate sector predominantly the overseas investors to support and contribute in the government’s efforts for bringing social change by meeting the challenges such as health, education, malnutrition.

President of OICCI Shazia Syed while addressing the participants remarked that OICCI member companies are committed for the improvement of the communities in Pakistan. She highlighted the ‘OICCI Women’ initiative, launched in 2017, which aims to bring all the OICCI members under one umbrella in order to make concerted efforts to achieve inclusion and diversity. The ‘OICCI Women Empowerment Awards’ was launched in 2018 to recognize the top performing OICCI members.

Syed also mentioned that OICCI members, during the last one year alone, have collectively invested over Rs5.5 billion to create a positive impact on the lives of 58 million people across the country.

She also extended full support from OICCI platform to the government on its “Say No to Plastic” initiative since it’s a long journey to overcome the threats of plastic to the environment. Syed also informed the audience that CSR activities were spread all over the Pakistan with 32% of the CSR activities focused in Sindh, 27% in Punjab, 15% in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 10% in Baluchistan, and another 16% in FATA, Gilgit-Baltistan and Azad Kashmir.

Secretary General OICCI, M. Abdul Aleem, highlighted “Our member companies have contributed to social services, in the field of education, healthcare, community development, environment and infrastructure development.” 

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Review - Don't Miss The International Iftar Buffet Dinner At Avari Towers!

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Every year Ramazan gives us chance to taste some yummy food and enjoy comfy ambiance with our family, friends and acquaintances. As a matter of fact, we all search for best places to relish our iftar dinners. This is the main reason that many restaurants announce their special deals and dinner meals with discounted rates to allure foodies.

Frankly speaking, not all deals and dinner meals turned out to be yummy and worthy and this really upsets foodies’ mood. However, there is one place that has a reputation of serving best delicious food and providing the most cozy environment for food lovers. Yes, here I am writing about AvariTowers Karachi’s Asia Live the one and only famous restaurant among foodies. Keeping in tact its tradition of introducing amazing food festivals, the restaurant is once again enticing its fans with International Iftar Buffet Dinner 2019. 

Today, I went to Asia Live’s International Iftar Buffet Dinner and believe me it was the best decision as it gave me an ample opportunity to taste the vast array of eastern and western dishes under one roof along with an assortment of colorful sweet dishes and desserts.

First of all, let me tell you that the place was beautifully decorated that truly reflected the spirit of holy month of Ramazan. I broke my fast with dates, some salads; it was my choice to go for salads rather than fried pakoras. There was a huge variety of snacks such as mix Pakoras, Dahi Bara, Chaat, Chicken Rolls, Pani Puri, crispy Samosas, Gol Gappay, etc.

After that I started my buffet dinner and for my surprise, the selection of dishes were superb as the menu list has a number of eastern and continental dishes. I tried the Lahori Fish which was super tasty, along with spicy aromatic beef biryani. I also tried a little bit of Chicken Malai Boti, Beef Chappali kebabs, Nihari and mutton Karahi. These dishes were full of flavours and tastes so good that you wouldn't be able to resist their aroma. 

For those who love to eat light continental food, Asia Live offers a vast variety of exotic dishes for instance, Thai Beef Green curry, the succulent Chinese Beef steak, crunchy Prawn Tempura, Teriyaki, and sweet & sour soup in their iftar buffet menu.

Likewise, the desserts section was full of beautifully decorated dishes including cakes, Arabic sweets, jelly, custard and the famous Pakistani sweet dishes for example the Kheer.

Verdict 

So, if you are looking for a self-serving comfortable atmosphere to enjoy your divine iftar, do visit the Asia Live restaurant at Avari Towers Karachi to have a wonderful dinner comprising of Desi Food, Italian, Japanese and Chinese. Whatever you want, you will definitely find delicious food under one roof.

Ratings

Ambiance 10/10

Food 10/10

Service 9/10

Cost Rs. 3195 +tax per person

For reservations and more details call: 111-282-747

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