LONDON: New signing Sadio Mane scored one goal and made another as Liverpool slickly defeated Barcelona 4-0 in a one-sided friendly match at a sun-soaked Wembley on Sunday.A 34 million pounds capture......
RIO: Mercilessly cast as “greedy” and “missing” for failing to fire Brazil to victory in their Rio 2016 opener against South Africa, Neymar and his highly-touted teammates need a big response against......
HARNAI: At least eight people were dead and five others were injured as rain, flash floods wreaked havoc in Balochistan’s Harnai district on Saturday.In the district’s most famous picnic point, Zard......
In the quaint town of Sikreyali near Narowal blossoms the ambition of one Computer Science student who has opened up new modes of communication and education in his community by introducing the......
DUBAI: A leading Iranian Sunni Muslim said the execution of alleged Sunni militants last week could inflame sectarian tensions in the Gulf region, while Tehran said it was merely taking a tough......
ISLAMABAD: The military’s spokesperson on Saturday rebuffed the claims that Army Chief General Raheel Sharif’s son-in-law is among the seven crew members taken hostage by Taliban militants after a......
ISTANBUL: The United States’ ambassador to Turkey has again denied allegations his country was involved in last month’s failed coup attempt, Turkish media reported Saturday.“I just want to say again,......
ISLAMABAD: Senate Chairman Raza Rabbani on Saturday warned the government against advocating the Kalabagh Dam project by using a government official.Expressing annoyance over the statements of Water......
KARACHI: Pakistan shooter Minhal Sohail on Saturday failed to qualify for the main round of 10 metre Rifle Shooting event during the ongoing Rio Olympics.Needing to secure a spot in top eight to......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Hockey Federation (PHF) President Brig. (R) M. Khalid Sajjad Khokhar on Friday acknowledged the team's failure to reach the Olympic Games this year and said the organisation's......
ISLAMABAD: The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) early Saturday morning said it arrested a "blacklisted" US national after he was granted entry by a FIA sub-inspector and his son at the Benazir......
BIRMINGHAM: Jonny Bairstow and Moeen Ali shared an unbroken partnership of 132 to lift England to 414 for five and a lead of 311 runs over Pakistan on the fourth day of the third Test at Edgbaston on......
Dilruwan Perera ripped the heart out of the Australian order to spin Sri Lanka to a series-clinching 229-run victory inside three days of the second Test at Galle on Saturday.The 34-year-old......
PARIS: A fire in a bar in the northern French town of Rouen killed 13 people and injured another six, the interior ministry said in a statement on Saturday.A judicial inquiry has been opened to......
KARACHI: One would normally associate images of Mohammad Ali Jinnah, Allama Mohammad Iqbal or Sir Syed Ahmed Khan with Independence Day celebrations. But this time around, there is a new face on the......
KARACHI: At least 15 people died in rain-related incidents across the metropolis since Friday, rescue and relief officials said.Ten of the victims died after receiving fatal electric shocks, three......
RIO DE JANEIRO: Brazil unfurled a vast canvas celebrating its rainforest and the creative energy of its wildly diverse population in welcoming the world on Friday to the Olympic Games in Rio de......
They are back and after 20 years, the aliens are smarter, stronger and with an aim to destroy Planet Earth. In Roland Emmerich’s Independence Day: Resurgence, the director tries to cook the same dish......
A few days ago my family planned to watch the movie Batman vs. Superman: Dawn of Justice. My sister decided to wear a Batgirl outfit to watch the movie. We were very excited.There were lots of people......
Everyone is a fan of different sports and waits for the tournament of that sport to start, but when it’s time of the Olympic Games everyone is eager to watch it as it has all kind of sports and all......
Did anyone truly believe that J.K. Rowling was done with Harry Potter seven years ago when she finished Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows? We all didn’t, especially the Potter loyalists.And now we......
Learning languages is fun but it also gives a person a huge plus point when one communicates with the natives of that particular language. We hardly know more than three languages in our part of the......
Yes, it’s school time! The joy, the excitement, the exhilaration is in the air! The feel of new books, the delight of new stationery, the thrill of reuniting with friends and getting to play chase......
A dozen double-yolk eggs from the same boxA stunned mother from New Zealand couldn’t believe her eyes when she defied one in a quintillion odds to crack open a dozen double-yolk eggs — from the same......
The Wonder Woman movieIt’s taken nearly 20 years to make a Wonder Woman movie, but following her cinematic debut earlier this year in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, the Amazonian superhero will......
“Students, listen attentively! Start preparing for the coming examination and this time nobody is going to cheat a single word during the exam. You still have one month for the preparation and start......
Back to school and not loving it? Don’t worry, you are not the only one. The transition from the long lazy days of summer to the rising with the sun and off to school days, is tough for everyone. And......
As armed rebels – “terrorists” in the eyes of the Syrian government – tighten their grip on the country, at one stage holding 60 percent of the land, government troops hit back, seizing control of......
NEW DELHI: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi appointed a party loyalist on Friday to lead his home state of Gujarat in an effort to broaden his support base ahead of crucial state elections next......
JOHANNESBURG: The African National Congress (ANC) vowed on Friday to learn from bruising local election results that showed South African voters drifting away from the party that led the......
HONG KONG: Candidates banned from standing for election in Hong Kong because they are advocating a split from mainland China led the city’s first pro-independence rally on Friday as tension over the......
BANGKOK: Hundreds of fans mobbed ex-premier Yingluck Shinawatra as she arrived at court on Friday to give evidence at her negligence trial, where she implored supporters to vote on a contentious......
THE United Nations is considering overseeing a Russian proposal to create humanitarian corridors for civilians who wish to leave besieged Aleppo, despite strong opposition from aid......
WASHINGTON: Donald Trump has grappled with fallout from multiple recent missteps, amid a new round of unfavourable polls and as House Speaker Paul Ryan reiterates that his support for the Republican......
ISTANBUL: Just a few years ago, Istanbul was one of the world’s creative capitals, a buzzing hive where visual artists, writers and film-makers mingled.Today, the so-called Pearl of the Bosphorus has......
GALLE: Sri Lanka took three late wickets as they tightened the screws on Australia in the second Test here on Friday after setting the tourists a daunting target of 413 to save the series.At the end......
RIO DE JANEIRO: Brazil and their superstar Neymar were booed off as their quest for a maiden Olympic football gold medal began with a 0-0 draw against 10-man South Africa while Portugal’s stunning......
RIO DE JANEIRO: The IOC approved the entry of 271 Russian athletes for the Rio Games on Thursday, meaning 70 per cent of the country’s original team will compete.Also on Thursday, the IOC rule......
RIO DE JANEIRO: Olympic boxing enters a controversial new era when the action in the ring begins on Saturday in Rio with professionals involved for the first time in a vastly revamped......
LONDON: West Ham United marked their first match at the Olympic Stadium with a 3-0 win over Slovenian side NK Domzale on Thursday, with Cheikhou Kouyate scoring the first-ever goal at the club’s new......
SIALKOT: The Sialkot-based international wrestler Mohammad Riaz Butt alias Raju Rocket Pehalwan died of cardiac arrest here on Friday evening. He was 86.Riaz, who had been suffering from heart......
A sell-out crowd of well over 25.000 people at Edgbaston couldn’t have asked for more than what they experienced on the third day, absorbing, intense and entertaining cricket.In the first period of......
BIRMINGHAM: England captain Alastair Cook and Alex Hales’s first century stand as an opening pair left the third Test against Pakistan here at Edgbaston intriguingly poised come the close of Friday’s......
KARACHI: A large number of candidates of several political parties on Friday filed their nomination papers for the posts of mayor, deputy mayor and chairman and vice chairman of hundreds of municipal......
KARACHI: All the top three positions in the Secondary School Certificate (science group) annual examinations were bagged by boys as the Board of Secondary Education Karachi (BSEK) announced the......
KARACHI: An anti-terrorism court on Friday asked interned leader of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement Waseem Akhtar to approach the competent authority for his production before the election commission......
KARACHI: The Pakistan Army and nongovernmental organisation Houbara Foundation International Pakistan (HFIP) dispersed seeds of arid zone plants over the Cholistan Desert through aircraft on Friday......
KARACHI: The Muttahida Qaumi Movement said on Friday that an unannounced ban had been imposed on its political activities and the party was not allowed to hold political programmes even in its......
KARACHI: Pakistanis bought property worth three billion United Arab Emirates (UAE) dirhams (around Rs85bn) in Dubai during the first half of this year, just behind Indians and Britons who plunked......
ISLAMABAD: The National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (Nepra) has expressed serious concerns over inability of the state-run transmission system to take full power generation from independent......
KARACHI: Dispelling the impression that Islamabad is Pakistan’s costliest city, Karachi has emerged as the most expensive metropolis in the country while Lahore is the least expensive.According to......
ISLAMABAD: The Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) on Friday accorded approval to Credit Rating Companies Regulations, 2016.A new regulatory regime has been introduced for credit......
ISLAMABAD: The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) collected revenue worth Rs190 billion in the first month of the current fiscal year as against Rs162bn a year ago, reflecting an increase of 14 per cent,......
KARACHI: Stocks closed sluggish on Friday following a day of roller-coaster ride. The KSE-100 index slipped further by 56.49 points (0.14 per cent) to close at 39,390.21.Trading volume surged by......
MANILA: Takehiko Nakao, a former senior finance ministry official in Japan, will serve for five more years as president of the Asian Development Bank (ADB), the Manila-based lender said Friday.Nakao,......
KARACHI: The Sindh Provincial Development Working Party (PDWP) on Friday approved two schemes worth Rs3.942 billion in the energy and health sectors.The first PDWP meeting for the current fiscal was......
LONDON: Gold fell as much as 1.2 per cent on Friday, as the dollar rose after US data showed employment increased more than expected in July, raising the probability of an interest rate hike from the......
LONDON: Chronic oversupply sent oil prices slumping this week into a so-called bear market, losing 20 per cent from recent June peaks above $50.In tumultuous trade on Wednesday, US benchmark West......
WASHINGTON: The US economy continued robust job creation in July, largely surpassing analyst expectations, according to data released on Friday by the Labour Department.Non-farm payrolls rose by......
SAHIWAL: Chichawatni, a small town which produced three national badminton champions, is lacking basic infrastructure and indoor badminton courts for regular practice.The town produced three national......
KASUR: The fear of child kidnapping has panicked the people of Kasur. They have begun reacting violently after reports of a spate of child kidnappings in Lahore.On Friday, villagers tortured two......
NEW DELHI: When Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan invited the Saarc delegates to lunch on Thursday but drove away without playing the host, Indian Home Minister Rajnath Singh too drove off.......
GUWAHATI: Gunmen in military uniforms sprayed bullets and flung grenades into a crowded market in northeast India on Friday, killing at least 13 people in a rampage authorities blamed on a regional......
UNITED NATIONS: A confidential UN report has concluded that the Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen deliberately bombed a house, killing four children, and that Houthi rebels used civilians as......
LONDON: Three decades after media mogul Rupert Murdoch instigated its demise as the centuries-old home of Britain’s newspaper industry, London’s Fleet Street bade farewell on Friday to its last two......
ISLAMABAD: The Afghan government on Friday ordered a security mission for rescuing the crew of a helicopter owned by the Punjab government that crash-landed in Afghanistan’s Logar province the......
ISLAMABAD: Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah said on Friday that he had sought the centre’s help to augment the electricity and gas supplies in the province.Speaking at a press conference after a......
The protest season never ends in Pakistan. Two years after the first set of dharnas rocked the PML-N government in summer 2014, the enfant terrible of politics, Imran Khan, is gearing up for another......
ISLAMABAD: Three PML-N MNAs have criticised the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) for failing to check the airing of ‘indecent’ advertisements by private television channels.In a......
“When I cleared my intermediate exams in computer science subjects, I was very fond of mobile phones. That was the time when the mobile phone industry was starting to grow in Pakistan, in the early......
ISLAMABAD: Criminals always use women and children to carry out their activities knowing that the law is soft for women and juveniles. There is a need to address this issue.This was stated by Ashraf......
RAWALPINDI: A two-day painting exhibition titled ‘Beautiful Pakistan’ that showcases the work of senior artist Misbahuddin Qazi kicked off at the Rawalpindi Arts Council (RAC) on Friday.The......
QUETTA: The Australian government through the World Bank is supporting the Balochistan government to address malnutrition issue and promote breastfeeding and its AUD 17 million projects will improve......
QUETTA: The Balochis-tan government has decided to give awards on the Independence Day to people who have shown excellent performance in various fields in the province.Balochistan government’s......
WASHINGTON: A day after deducting $300 million from military aid to Pakistan over action against the Afghan Haqqani network, the United States urged Islamabad on Friday to target all militant......
ISLAMABAD: In a tit-for-tat response, the government on Friday filed a reference with the speaker of the National Assembly for disqualification of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan as......
POPULAR star-turned-producer and later director, Shamim Ara, died in a hospital in the United Kingdom on Friday after a long-drawn illness. She had suffered a brain haemorrhage in Lahore and was in......
ISLAMABAD: Taking exception to reappointment of retired judges in special courts, the Pakistan Bar Council (PBC) demanded on Friday immediate removal of those who have been appointed as special court......
ISLAMABAD: The Senate unanimously adopted a resolution on Friday expressing resolve to continue struggle for enhancement of its role and powers to make Pakistan a true federation in line with the......
PESHAWAR: When 45-year-old Fazal Rehman along with his family reached his village in Kurram Agency from Kohat after six hours of troublesome journey on an uneven and tough terrain, what he saw was......
ISLAMABAD: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB), which is investigating the multi-billion Modaraba and Musharaka (Islamic mode of investment) scams, has so far recovered Rs569 million.The NAB......
PESHAWAR: The provincial assembly hurriedly passed the much-trumpeted Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Prevention of Conflict of Interest Bill 2016 on Friday after reducing the number of the original bill’s......
BATTAGRAM: Most of the school buildings destroyed or damaged in the October 2005 earthquake in Battagram district are yet to be rebuilt.There are numbers of schools that have been partially......
TO say that the global economy is undergoing a seismic shift would be an understatement. Advances in fields such as artificial intelligence, robotics, and renewable energy are set to transform the......
THE heated exchanges over Kashmir between Pakistan and India at the Saarc ministerial conference in Islamabad this week and the abrupt departure for Delhi of the Indian home minister were indicative......
IN June, more than 50 officials of the US State Department signed an internal memo to say that regime change in Syria was the only way to defeat the militant Islamic State group. The State Department......
I SAW a groundhog this morning, scampering across the lawn in St Andrews, New Brunswick, where I’m staying these days. The sight of the shy little animal reminded me of the 1993 movie Groundhog......
