AUSTIN, Texas (KTRK) — More than a million families receiving SNAP benefits will see more money on their Lone Star card this month. Last week, Gov. Greg Abbott announced the Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) is providing approximately $202 million in emergency SNAP benefits for the month of November as the state continues its response to the COVID-19 …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Monday will begin with a chance for patchy fog in the morning. This fog should lift by mid morning and we may see some sun by the afternoon. We should see more cloud cover than Sunday though, with partly sunny skies expected. A few light showers will be possible Monday, but most of us will stay …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — A Houston family is asking for the public’s help in finding who is responsible for the brutal killing of 63-year-old Richard Graves in his apartment in northeast Houston. Houston police responded to a reported assault in progress around 12:40 a.m. Tuesday, Oct. 6 on Woolworth near Crane.   Upon arrival, they found Graves deceased. Police say …

LAHORE: The new domestic cricket system introduced by the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) two years back with the claims of bringing quality cricket and to groom young talent and do away with overage players have rung hollow the recently concluded National T20 Cup and the ongoing Quaid-i-Azam Trophy matches have not met the two targets. To discourage the overage players, …

TOKYO: Gymnasts from four nations tumbled, leapt and spun through a friendly meet in front of several thousand fans in Tokyo on Sunday in a closely-watched event aimed at showing the world Japan can safely carry out the postponed 2020 Olympics in an era of coronavirus. Thirty gymnasts from Japan, the United States, China and Russia, including Japan’s triple Olympic …

KARACHI: Northern took complete command of their third-round Quaid-e-Azam Trophy First XI fixture on Sunday after contrasting centuries from Sarmad Bhatti and Hammad Azam had the hapless Sindh side on the run at the UBL Sports Complex. Sindh braced themselves for an anxious fourth and final day on Tues­day when they restart their already stuttering second innings at 77-3 in …

DHAKA: Bangladesh Twenty20 skipper Mahmudullah has been ruled out of the Pakistan Super League playoffs after testing positive for the coronavirus (Covid-19), he said on Sunday. Mahmudullah was set to play in the franchise-based T20 event, which restarts on next Saturday after a break since March because of the Covid-19 pandemic. “I was surprised by a positive result from my …

RAWALPINDI: Youngsters Haider Ali and Usman Qadir shared limelight while inspiring Pakistan to an unassailable 2-0 lead against Zimbabwe in their three-match Twenty20 Inter­national series with a clinical eight-wicket rout at the Pindi Cricket Stadium here on Sunday. After restricting the tourists to an inadequate total of 135-7, Pakistan made short work of the modest target, which they reached with …

Like other developing countries, Pakistan has been a consistent recipient of foreign loans and assistance in the form of project and programme loans and grants for social and economic development objectives through budgetary and balance-of-payments support. Programme loans are generally sought for achieving broad development and economic objectives like reforms while project loans are secured for specific projects and services …

The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) is pushing banks to lend more to the private sector to rev up economic activity and it thinks the best way to do this is to make it mandatory for them to accelerate housing finance. When banks pour funds into construction projects, it increases demand for products of dozens of allied industries like cement, …