KARACHI: Doctors here on Wednesday boycotted outdoor patient departments (OPDs) and operation theatres at Abbasi Shaheed Hospital in Karachi over non-payment of salaries. The protesting doctors were of the view the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation did not issue their salaries on Monday despite assurance. The doctors said that they will continue their protest until the release of their salaries. Meanwhile, all …

LAHORE: Provincial health authorities on Wednesday reported six more cases of dengue fever in Punjab in 24 hours. According to a spokesperson of the Primary and Secondary Healthcare Department Punjab, the tally of confirmed dengue fever cases in Punjab has reached 157 this year since January 2020. He further stated that no deaths have been reported in the ongoing year …

Missouri’s highest court on Tuesday refused to consider Johnson & Johnson’s appeal of a $2.12 billion damages award to women who blamed their ovarian cancer on asbestos in its baby powder and other talc products. The Missouri Supreme Court let stand a June 23 decision by a state appeals court, which upheld a jury’s July 2018 finding of liability but …

KARACHI: Sindh province has reported more eight coronavirus-related deaths in past 24 hours, said Chief Minister Sindh Murad Ali Shah.  “The province has registered 492 fresh coronavirus cases in past twenty-four hours”, said CM Sindh Murad Ali Shah in his daily briefing. Out of 492 cases, 354 cases have been reported in Karachi only, he added. The overall death toll …

MELBOURNE: The race that stops a nation also saw tens of thousands of spectators prevented from attending one of the biggest single-day sporting events in Australia. But like a familiar refrain in 2020, blame Covid-19. Irish-bred Twilight Payment, ridden by Jye McNeil and trained by Irishman Joseph O’Brien, gave Australian owner Lloyd Williams his seventh win in the Melbourne Cup. …

DUBAI: Australian all-rounder Shane Watson retired from all forms of cricket on Tuesday, drawing the curtain on an injury-plagued career which he managed to extend by reinventing himself as a journeyman Twenty20 specialist. Watson ended his Test career in 2015 and quit international cricket the next year, surrendering in his battle against a litany of injuries that bedevilled his career. …

The Norwegian makers of Internet browser Opera offered users to pay $9,000 payday for browsing the web for fun for two weeks. The makers said that the selected “Personal Browser” will spend two weeks performing online activities such as hunting for memes, watching cute baby animal videos and researching unusual topics while livestreaming the experience on Opera’s social media channels. …

KARACHI: Brilliant Ibrahim Iltifat outplayed Farhan Altaf 8-2 to win the executive men’s singles title while Zubair Raja outclassed Aqeel Shabbir 8-1 to win coaches singles title and in the ball boys singles category, Dhuruf Das beat Kamran Ahmed 8-4 at the inaugural Rotary Club Sindh Balochistan Executive Tennis Championships which was held at DA Central Club recently. Aziz Memon, …

LONDON: England’s Jofra Archer, Ben Stokes and Sam Curran will be rested from the One-day International leg of the 50-over world champions’ tour of South Africa, it was announced on Tuesday. But with the 2021 Twenty20 World Cup on the horizon, the three players were all included in the squad for the three Twenty20s, which start later this month, ahead …

KARACHI: Southern Punjab surged to the top of Quaid-e-Azam Trophy standings after a cool-headed knock from Agha Salman guided them to a four-wicket victory over Balochistan at the National Stadium here on Tuesday. Sindh, meanwhile, lost a golden opportunity of defeating Khyber Pakhtunkhwa after unnecessarily dragging on their second innings at the UBL Sports Complex. In the end their opponents …