MIAMI: Serena Williams became the latest high-profile player to pull out of the Miami Open on Sunday, saying she was withdrawing in order to concentrate on her recovery from recent oral surgery. The 23-time Grand Slam champion joins Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic among the stars to have pulled out of the tournament, which gets under way on …

LAHORE: Poor response from clubs across the country has forced the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) to extend the deadline for clubs’ registration till April 8. Though the PCB in a press release on Monday stated that the response from the clubs is encouraging as 1362 have applied for registration with two days still remaining before the deadline ends on March …

Pakistan opener Sharjeel Khan said on Tuesday he was delighted with the welcome he had been given since being recalled to the national squad after completing a lengthy ban for spot-fixing. The 31-year-old was banned in 2017 for five years — with half the sentence suspended — for his part in rigging Pakistan Super League (PSL) matches in the United Arab Emirates. …

ISLAMABAD: With relaxed procurement rules, Pakistan has sought eight import cargoes of Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) at fixed dollar price and tight tendering schedule for delivery between April 30 and June 28. Pakistan LNG Ltd (PLL) — one of the public sector entities responsible for LNG import — on Monday invited bids for delivery of eight cargoes in May and …

PUNE: India skipper Virat Kohli on Monday said players should be consulted over the cricket calendar as the extended bubble life during the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic has strengthened fears of burnout. With India headed into three One-day Internationals against England starting in Pune on Tuesday after winning a gruelling Test series 3-1 and Twenty20 International series 3-2, Kohli said more …

NORTH SOUND: Sri Lanka claimed wickets at both ends of a dour morning session which produced just 59 runs as they restricted West Indies to 72 for two in reply to the tourists’ paltry first innings of 169 on the second day of the first Test on Monday. In between the dismissals of captain Kraigg Brathwaite and Nkrumah Bonner, the …

ISLAMABAD: The Dutch telecom giant VEON Ltd has bought all stakes in its telecom venture from the UAE-based Dhabi group in Jazz Pakistan. VEON in its official statement released on Monday announced that it has completed the acquisition of minority shareholding in Pakistan Mobile Communications Ltd (PMCL). VEON is a multinational telecommunication services company headquartered in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. It …

The Punjab Information Technology Board (PITB) has launched Regional Plan9 — a network of incubators for technology startups across the province, it emerged on Monday. Under the plan, PITB will be launching nine incubation centres in Lahore, Bahawalpur, Dera Ghazi Khan, Faisalabad, Multan, Rawalpindi, Gujranwala, Sahiwal and Sargodha in partnership with public sector universities, the board said in a statement. …

  PESHAWAR: The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority has blocked access to around 500,000 objectionable videos on the popular video-sharing application TikTok in the country, a single-member Peshawar High Court bench was told on Monday. During the hearing into a case regarding the court’s recent ban on TikTok in the country, PTA lawyer Jehanzeb Mehsud also told Chief Justice Qaiser Rashid Khan …