It all adds up to a spicy finale to the global showcase that began on June 6 under the shadow of a FIFA corruption scandal but ends with the players in the spotlight and an intriguing contest that is set to cap off a month of record-smashing television ratings and attendance figures...
CAPE TOWN: By questioning the judicial process that cleared South Africa fast bowler Kagiso Rabada to play in the third Test, Australia captain Steve Smith has provided another point of conflict in a combative cricket series...
Smith said in the lead-up to the third Test in Cape Town that Rabada’s successful appeal against a two-test ban was ‘interesting’, and questioned why he, as the other person involved in the incident that led to...
KARACHI: What do Imran Khan, Aamir Sohail, Wasim Akram, Waqar Younis, Shahid Afridi and Misbah-ul-Haq have in common? They were all captaining the country when Pakistan lost to India in a World Cup fixture...
BIRMINGHAM: Joe Root is determined the ‘spicy’ nature of England’s latest clash with Australia won’t prove a distraction when the arch-rivals meet for a place in the World Cup final...
“I think there have been times within games when it has got a bit spicy and there have been a few exchanges on the field...
A probe by the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has revealed that the boundary of the Civil Aviation Authority's (CAA's) land at Karachi's Jinnah International Airport (JIAP) was shifted multiple times in the past in connivance with CAA and revenue department officials, purportedly to illegally occupy the property...
The suspects include former federal minister retired Capt Haleem Siddiqi, former Karachi administrator Saqib Soomro,...
LAHORE: Punjab University’s Institute of Education and Research (IER) Assistant Professor Dr Abida Nasreen has been suspended from service for three months for publication of wrong map of Pakistan on a flex...
PU Vice Chancellor Prof Dr Mujahid Kamran on Monday took notice of the publication of wrong map of Pakistan on a flex in which Azad Kashmir was not shown part of the country...
Gasps echo across the hall as the Myanmar school kids trial virtual reality goggles, marvelling at a device that allows some of Asia's poorest people to walk on the moon or dive beneath the waves...
“In Myanmar, we can't afford much to bring students to the real world experience,” beamed Hla Hla Win, a teacher and tech entrepreneur taking virtual reality into the classroom
org carries the stories of all the team members who prepared for the tournament over three months and worked on solutions to “mind-baffling physical phenomena” including: electric honeycombs, hot water geysers, rollers on rollers, magnetic trains, ultra-hydrophobic water, acoustic metamaterials and mechanical machines to generate random numbers...
KARACHI: The Ministry of Science and Technology has taken the initiative for “engineering foresight” to gear up auto assemblers and parts makers for new challenges, especially electric vehicles (EVs)...
A local car or a light-weight combat vehicle manufacturer in this transition period will be challenged to produce a small fossil fuel vehicle, around 600 to 800 CC with an outlook for 20 years, and at an appropriate time tie up with an...
“The ban has been imposed for five days and it was done on instructions of an inter-ministerial committee, who took cognisance of an incorrect map of India in which the channel showed parts of Kashmir in Pakistan and China,” the official told AFP on condition of anonymity...
The Indian government in 2011 ordered The Economist magazine to cover up a map of disputed borders in Kashmir...
According to sources it quoted, the issue had come to the notice of the I&B ministry that on repeated occasions the channel had showed a wrong map of India in some of its broadcasts in 2013 and 2014, after which the matter was referred to the Surveyor General of India (SGI)...
The territorial boundary of India is not shown with clarity and proper shape in another map...
Isn’t it time for GHQ to pause and ask itself how it can tell one group apart from the other when each is committed to the enforcement of the narrowest, most obscurantist, and often divisive view of religion?If the CPEC is going to be more than mere red, blue or whatever coloured lines on a map, the fight against terror will have to be fought in tandem on many fronts by all state institutions and every citizen...
TIRANA (Albania): Even though President Donald Trump announced his strategy for the war in Afghanistan in August, the Pentagon and Nato are still trying to map their way forward in the nearly 16-year-old conflict, according to US officials...
INVISIBLE to the frenzied world of urban dwellers, and anchored in the rural hinterlands of Africa, Asia, the Americas and Europe, live communities of peasants — small farmers, tenants, sharecroppers — joined together in their tumultuous fight against forces bent upon usurping their rights to land, to produce and to continue their way of life...
La Via Campesina (literally ‘the peasant way’) is a unique international labour movement...
Saudi Arabia plans to expand its sovereign wealth fund into the worlds largest...
The kingdom took a huge step toward that goal last Saturday when it signed billions of dollars of deals with Blackstone Group and SoftBank Group Corp