LONDON — Prince William denied Britain’s royal family is racist on Thursday in his first public comments since Prince Harry and Meghan’s interview with Oprah Winfrey. “We’re very much not a racist family,” William said in response to questions from the media as he visited a school in east London with his wife Kate, the Duchess of Cambridge. William added that he hadn’t spoken to his brother yet, “but I …

LAHORE: The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has chalked up an ‘ambitious’ programme to raise millions of rupees from the poor owners of cricket clubs across the country through their registration with the Board. The owners of clubs, who are already facing financial issues in running their clubs due to exorbitant prices of sports goods which is putting financial burden on …

LONDON: Jos Buttler has rejected the suggestion that England have prioritised white-ball cricket over Tests with their rotation policy as they prepare to face India in their Twenty20 Inter­national series. Buttler is back in India ahead of the start of the five-match series on Friday, having returned home for a rest period that covered the final three matches of the …

LAUSANNE: International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Thomas Bach promised to deliver a ‘safe and secure’ Tokyo Olympics this year as he was re-elected for a second term on Wednesday.As he opened the IOC Session, Bach said it was no longer a question of whether the Olympics, which were postponed last year as the coronavirus pandemic spread around the globe, would …

LAHORE: A decision on resuming the Pakistan Super League-6, which was postponed last week amid emergence of seven Covid-19 cases, maybe taken when the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) and the owners of PSL franchises meet here on Thursday. Both the PCB and franchises are considering different options for the remaining 20 matches of the league. While the PCB suggested the …

DUBAI: The International Cricket Council (ICC) has sent its chief executive Manu Sawhney on forced leave after an independent investigation found evidence of misconduct, world body sources said on Wednesday. Sawhney, an Indian-origin former television executive who is also a non-executive director of Manchester United, has been in the post for less than two years. With a year of his …

KARACHI: The government increased the cut-off yields on treasury bills (T-bills) by up to 34 basis points in the auction held on Wednesday. The yield on three-month T-bills was increased by 34 basis points to 7.59 per cent while for the benchmark six-month papers it was jacked up by 25 basis points to 7.80pc, the central bank reported. The government …

ISLAMABAD: The Minis­­­try of Industries and Pro­duction (MoIP) expects that the new mobile phone manufacturing industry could be larger than the existing automotive industry in the coming years due to high demand and expansion in coverage areas across the country, the Engineering Development Board (EDB) said on Wednesday. In its report, the EDB — which is a technical arm of …

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Wednesday restrained the National Accountability Court (NAB), Karachi from passing any final order or judgment against Shell Petroleum which had sought quashment of a reference from the apex court against it for selling jet fuel to a company called Aero Lube. A three-member SC bench comprising Justice Umar Ata Bandial, Justice Sajjad Ali Shah and …