LUCKNOW: Indian cricket star Virat Kohli was fined on Tuesday for the second time in this IPL season after a post-match altercation with former national team-mate Gautam Gambhir in Lucknow on......
HOVE: Australia great Steve Smith says winning a Test series in England would be a “bucket list” achievement as he prepares for potentially his final overseas Ashes series with a stint at county......
KYIV: The International Judo Federation on Tuesday barred eight members of Russia’s world championships squad following Ukraine’s boycott over the presence of Russian athletes it argued were active......
KARACHI: The Sindh Assembly on Tuesday adopted a resolution declaring that the term of the house would complete on Aug 13.Concluding the discussion on the resolution moved by a Pakistan Peoples Party......
NEW DELHI: India overtook Australia on Tuesday to go number one in new Test rankings issued by the International Cricket Council (ICC), while also retaining the top position in T20s.England remained......
Quetta: As many as 24 tankers carrying liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) from Turkmenistan have arrived in Chaman so far.“The first three tankers reached Chaman last week,” Imran Khan Kakar, a clearing......
QUETTA: The building of Pakistan Telecommunication Limited (PTCL) in Nushki was damaged in a grenade attack on Tuesday.Officials said that unknown armed men on motorcycle hurled the grenade at the......
KARACHI: The body of a toddler, who along with his parents fell into a drain during rain in Orangi Town late on Monday night, was recovered on Tuesday, rescue services said.An Edhi Foundation......
PESHAWAR: The Fata University, the only public sector higher education institution in tribal districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, has been functioning in just 10 classrooms of a government college for......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Secretary General Asad Umar has served notice on Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) chief Sirajul Haq for claiming that wealth of some people, including Asad Umar, was......
TAXILA: A gas leak at an under-construction ice factory along G.T. Road in a residential area of Hassanabdal affected scores of people and left a number of people, mostly children, hospitalised,......
• Sindh, Balochistan lag far behind other provinces, says report • Malnutrition termed biggest challenge to development • 75pc children in ‘learning poverty’ • Murad shares progress on WB-supported......
KATHMANDU: A US climber died on Mount Everest on Monday, according to his expedition organiser. It is the first foreign death on the highest mountain in the world this season.The 69-year-old......
WASHINGTON: The chief executives of Alphabet Inc’s Google, Microsoft, OpenAI and Anthropic will attend a White House meeting on Thursday with Vice President Kamala Harris and other administration......
WASHINGTON: A friend of E. Jean Carroll on Tuesday backed up the writers account of being raped by Donald Trump, testifying during a civil trial that she received a phone call about the alleged......
LAHORE: The Anti-Corruption Establishment (ACE) summoned former minister Ijazul Haq, the son of military dictator Gen Ziaul Haq, on charge of developing housing schemes on agricultural land.According......
THE HAGUE: A multi-continental crackdown has halted a major “dark web” marketplace, with international police arresting 288 suspects and recovering more than $54.8 million in cash and virtual......
APRIL 23 marked six months since the death of journalist Arshad Sharif in Kenya. This week the Pakistan Press Foundation announced the 2023 Press Freedom Award for the journalist posthumously on the......
ISLAMABAD: Inflation in Pakistan surged to a record 36.4 per cent in April from a year earlier, driven mainly by skyrocketing food prices and rising energy costs, official data showed on Tuesday.The......
FOR once it had appeared that the stalemate could be broken through negotiations. The two sides sat across the table last week to find some middle way to end the impasse. Hopes were raised when the......
KARACHI: Share prices rose on Tuesday as investors reacted positively to favourable announcements by blue-chip companies.Topline Securities said the benchmark of the stock market closed on the higher......
ISLAMABAD: Within months after an over 25 per cent increase, the Oil Marketing Companies (OMCs) have formally demanded 100pc increase in their profit margins on the sale of petroleum products to......
KARACHI: The Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development (AKFED), which is the overseas sponsor of Habib Bank Ltd, is going to use its accumulated dividends worth Rs3.5 billion to buy additional shares of......
KARACHI: Despite calm in international gold markets and exchange rate stability, the yellow metal traders on Tuesday pushed up the prices to historic highs of Rs221,000 per tola and Rs189,472 per......
ISLAMABAD: For the eighth month in a row, Pakistan’s merchandise exports shrank by 26.68 per cent year-on-year to $2.12 billion in April, data released by the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics showed on......
ISLAMABAD: The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) missed its collection target by almost 17.57 per cent, or Rs103 billion, for April owing to a steep decline in imports as well as poor sales tax......
ISLAMABAD: The National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (Nepra) on Tuesday hinted at charging mark up on over Rs43 billion determined by it for refund to electricity consumers in Karachi under......
ISLAMABAD: The Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (Ogra) on Tuesday increased the price of indigenous liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) by about Rs5 per kg, pushing up the cost of 11.8-kg domestic cylinder......
KARACHI: Calling climate change “a crisis created by rich countries,” Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari has sought immediate measures amid fast-changing weather cycles, which he said, had......
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Tuesday ordered tough action against smugglers of wheat, sugar, urea and other commodities which have caused massive increase in prices of these and other......
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf on Tuesday accused the “Maryam Nawaz group” within the PML-N of trying to sabotage the government-PTI talks, saying that Bushra Bibi would file a criminal......
ISLAMABAD: The military leadership briefed Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on national and regional security matters and the upcoming visits of Chinese and Afghan foreign ministers over the next......
WASHINGTON: A computer scientist often dubbed ‘the Godfather of Artificial Intelligence’ has quit job at Google, warning about the growing dangers from developments in the field, US media reported on......
WASHINGTON: Twice in the last two days, the United States has publicly expressed its unhappiness with the incumbent government’s decision to use the blasphemy law against former prime minister Imran......
NAIROBI: Kenyan riot police fired tear gas on opposition MPs on Tuesday as sporadic violence erupted during fresh anti-government demonstrations over a cost-of-living crisis and last year’s disputed......
DOHA: UN chief Antonio Guterres made a new attack on the Taliban government’s “unprecedented” curbs on Afghan women’s rights on Tuesday as he highlighted international fears over stability in the......
LONDON: In continuation of his demand to hold the judiciary accountable for alleged transgressions, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) supreme leader Nawaz Sharif on Tuesday called for action......
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Tuesday sought the record of National Assembly proceedings from when a bill aimed at clipping the chief justice’s powers was deliberated upon and passed by the......
• Talks conclude after govt, PTI teams share fresh proposals, no date set for next round • Dar, Gilani offer optimistic view of dialogue • Qureshi claims no headway on proposals from their......
APRIL 23 marked six months since the death of journalist Arshad Sharif in Kenya. This week the Pakistan Press Foundation announced the 2023 Press Freedom Award for the journalist posthumously on the......
FOR once it had appeared that the stalemate could be broken through negotiations. The two sides sat across the table last week to find some middle way to end the impasse. Hopes were raised when the......
• Talks conclude after govt, PTI teams share fresh proposals, no date set for next round • Dar, Gilani offer optimistic view of dialogue • Qureshi claims no headway on proposals from their......
