The Indian cricket board responded to the national team’s defeat in the semi-finals of the Twenty20 World Cup in Australia last week by sacking their senior selection committee on Friday.India were......
INDIA, a large, imperfect democracy with its many ethnolinguistic and religious groups, separatist forces, occupied territories, etc, is certainly not easier to govern than Pakistan. Up until the......
TURIN: Novak Djokovic stayed unbeaten in the round-robin stage of the ATP Finals as he overcame Russia’s Daniil Medvedev 6-3 6-7(5) 7-6(2) in a gruelling clash at the Pala Alpitour in Turin on Friday......
AL RAYYAN: VAR offside decisions will be quicker and more accurate at the World Cup after the introduction of new technology developed by FIFA over the last three years, referees chief Pierluigi......
WELLINGTON: Heavy rain in Wellington forced the cancellation of the opening Twenty20 match between New Zealand and India on Friday without a ball being bowled.The washout means the teams next meet in......
DOHA: Netherlands captain Virgil van Dijk says the World Cup will be poorer without his former club-mate Sadio Mane, even though the Dutch now face a weaker Senegal side in their Group ‘A’ opener on......
ADRIEN Rabiot seemed pretty tense. Lucas Hernandez was completely the opposite.It’s difficult to judge the mood in the France camp, missing several key players to injury and some still recovering, as......
KARACHI: A specialised telemedicine drone kit was on Friday launched at a seminar where Sindh Health Minister Dr Azra Pechuho announced a telehealth project for primary healthcare for rural areas.The......
KARACHI: Sindh Information and Transport Minister Sharjeel Inam Memon on Friday directed TransKarachi to expedite the development work on the Red Line bus rapid transit (BRT) project.Chairing a......
PARIS: Funerals for young Iranians, including a small boy, who families say were killed in a state crackdown, sparked a fresh wave of anti-government protests across the country on Friday.Iran’s......
LAHORE: The Joint Investigation Team (JIT) formed to probe into the gun attack on former premier Imran Khan at Wazirabad on Friday and inspected the crime scene, got briefings from the local police......
RAHIM YAR KHAN: At least 32 passengers were injured in a collision between a sleeper bus and a trailer on the Multan-Sukkur Motorway (N-5) near Muridshakh, close to Punjab-Sindh border, some 60kms......
BUFFALO: Parts of western New York state woke up on Friday to nearly two feet of “lake effect” snow, about half of the total accumulation that forecasters say squalls blowing in from Lake Erie could......
KARACHI: Despite the low cost of import on account of the rupee’s recovery against the dollar in the last one and a half months, Indus Motor Company (IMC) has increased prices by Rs190,000-700,000.In......
META, the parent company of social media giant Facebook, has fired or disciplined more than two dozen employees and contractors over the last year who were accused of improperly taking over user......
DADU: All 20 victims of a tragic van accident, which took place on Thursday evening, were laid to rest on Friday with the Phulpoto community blaming government negligence for the tragedy.The van was......
QUETTA: Balochistan Chief Minister Mir Abdul Qudoos Bizenjo has said that 85 per cent of the provincial budget is spent on payment of salaries of government employees and the provincial government is......
KARACHI: Stocks had a bearish close on Friday as investors reacted to the delayed talks between the International Monetary Fund and Pakistan for the next review of the loan programme along with......
KARACHI: The State Bank of Pakistan has suspended, with immediate effect, the authorisation of two exchange companies — Orient Exchange Company-B (Pvt) Ltd and Best Way Exchange Company-B (Pvt) Ltd —......
ISLAMABAD: The ex-Wapda distribution companies (Discos) on Friday sought an additional fuel cost (FCA) of about 25 paise per unit to generate about Rs2.5 billion in supplementary revenue on account......
KARACHI: K-Electric Ltd said on Friday the apex regulator of the corporate sector has directed it not to change the composition of its board of directors “till further orders”.K-Electric’s holding......
ISLAMABAD: The Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) of Cabinet on Friday allowed the Trading Corporation of Pakistan (TCP) to import 160,000 tonnes of urea from China and Azerbaijan under the......
KARACHI: The foreign investors withdrew $660 million from Naya Pakistan Certificates (NPC) during the last six months, compounding the hardship for the country already facing a serious problem of......
ISLAMABAD: Finance Minister Ishaq Dar on Friday called on President Dr Arif Alvi and briefed him on the government’s plans to provide relief to the masses hit by unprecedented inflation.According to......
IT is alarming that the PDM government is trying to expand the powers of the Federal Investigation Authority (FIA) to enable action against social media posts that are deemed critical of the......
GUJAR KHAN: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan has claimed that the country’s current circumstances are far worse than during former president retired Gen Pervez Musharraf’s......
ISLAMABAD: Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari on Friday called for revisiting the strategy to deal with the outlawed Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), which has stepped up terror activities in......
• Minister says Islamabad committed to IMF programme • Efforts being made to reform tax collection systemISLAMABAD: Amid claims by former prime minister Imran Khan that default is staring Pakistan in......
NEW DELHI: Digital currencies need more regulation to stamp out funding for terror operations, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Friday at a major international forum to combat financing......
BANGKOK: Several Asia-Pacific leaders who had gathered for an economic summit in the Thai capital broke away from their meeting on Friday to condemn North Korea after it test-fired an......
