Scotland tackle champions South Africa
LONDON: Star fly-half Finn Russell returns to the Scotland team for a Nations Championship match…
Scotland tackle champions South Africa
LONDON: Star fly-half Finn Russell returns to the Scotland team for a Nations Championship match against world champions South Africa in Pretoria on Saturday. The 33-year-old British and Irish Lion missed a first-round victory over Argentina in Cordoba last weekend due to a calf injury. Russell replaces Tom Jordan, who is among the eight replacements…
Women’s cricket gets its first Lord’s Test
Lord’s will finally host a women’s Test in 142 years since. Photo: AFP LONDON: Lord’s will finally host a women’s Test, 142 years since staging its first such men’s match, when England face India in a four-day game at the ‘Home of Cricket’ starting Friday. “It just boggles my mind that it is just the…
Families of crew aboard crashed Pakistani cargo plane face agonising wait
Five missing after crash; plane spent 10 days in Sharjah for repairs before return flight Ghulam Nabi Bahrani, father-in-law of Faisal Jatoi, the co-pilot (First Officer) of the K2 Airways Boeing 737 cargo plane that crashed in the Arabian Sea, sits with guests at his home in Karachi, Pakistan, July 8, 2026. Photo: Reuters The…
Farrell rings changes for Ireland’s Japan clash
Tadhg Beirne will captain a revamped Ireland side against Japan. Photo: AFP LONDON: Ireland coach Andy Farrell made nine changes Thursday to his starting side to face Japan in the Nations Championship this weekend, with Tadhg Beirne named to lead out the team as captain for the first time. Only six players from their nail-biting 33-31 victory over…
Google appeals Indian ruling over its ads platform, citing consumer harm
The Delhi High Court ruled against Google in the case, ordering it to pay damages of $31,600 and other costs Visitors walk near a logo of Google at Bharat Mandapam, one of the venues for AI Impact Summit, in New Delhi, India, February 17, 2026. REUTERS Google has challenged an Indian court ruling that it infringed…
PM Shehbaz hails overseas Pakistanis as remittances hit $41.6b in FY2025-26
Calls overseas Pakistanis valuable asset, says remittances reflected confidence in govt’s policies Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Thursday praised overseas Pakistanis for sending $41.6 billion in remittances during the 2025–26 fiscal year. In a statement, the prime minister said the 8.6% increase in remittances reflected overseas Pakistanis’ confidence in the government’s policies. Calling overseas Pakistanis…
Meta to put AI chip into production in September as it looks to double computing capacity, memo shows
Meta’s in-house Iris AI chip will power Facebook and Instagram under its four-generation MTIA programme People walk behind a logo of Meta Platforms company, during a conference in Mumbai, India, September 20, 2023. REUTERS Meta Platforms plans to start manufacturing an artificial intelligence chip from September as part of its plan to boost overall computing power…
Karachi court hands death penalty to prime accused in anchor Mureed Abbas murder case
The court issues permanent arrest warrants for the absconding co-accused Adil Zaman KARACHI: An Additional District and Sessions Court on Thursday sentenced the prime accused, Atif Zaman, to death in the murder case of anchorperson Mureed Abbas and his friend Khizer Hayat, nearly seven years after the killings. On July 09, 2019, Abbas and Hayat…
Rs40b spent, RBOD-II declared unviable as govt halts project
KARACHI: The Sindh Assembly’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) was informed on Wednesday that the Rs61.985 billion Right Bank Outfall Drain-II (RBOD-II) project has been declared non-feasible and structurally compromised, despite the expenditure of over Rs40 billion, triggering the Provincial Irrigation Department to refuse further work on the scheme. The 273-kilometre project, stretching from Sehwan to…
Iqbal invites investment from Pak-American businessmen
ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Planning, Development and Special Initiatives Ahsan Iqbal on Wednesday addressed a gathering of Pakistani-American business leaders in Chicago, comprising 20 entrepreneurs, technologists and financiers, of which more than a third were former Fortune 500 executives, and invited them to bring their capital, networks and expertise to Pakistan. The minister stressed that…
