KARACHI: It was time for revenge in the National T20 Cup at the Pindi Cricket Stadium in Rawalpindi late on Sunday night. In the return National T20 Cup fixture arguably between the two most glamorous outfits in the competition, Central Punjab made a swift recovery from the 36-run loss to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa last Thursday as they humbled the defending champions …

LONDON: Paris St Germain and Manchester City have an early chance to lay down a marker in the Champions League when they meet in a heavyweight group game at the Parc des Princes on Tuesday that sees Pep Guardiola and his old pupil Lionel Messi come face to face once again. Qatar-owned PSG and Abu Dhabi-backed City have changed the …

LAHORE: Finally, the franchises of the HBL Pakistan Super League (PSL) have succeeded in convincing the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) about their financial losses to get considerable relief from the seventh edition of the competition to be held in January 2022. “Taking into the account legal and contractual framework, the PCB has offered a new financial model to the franchisees …

LONDON: England all-rounder Moeen Ali on Monday announced he was retiring from Test cricket to focus on his white-ball career, saying the format’s ‘intensity can be too much sometimes’. The 34-year-old scored five centuries and took 195 wickets in 64 Tests, including a top score of 155 not out and five five-wicket hauls. But Moeen felt he needed to abandon …

Former captain of Pakistan’s cricket team Inzamamul Haq underwent an angioplasty after suffering a heart attack in Lahore. According to Haq’s agent, the 51-year-old was brought to the hospital after experiencing chest pain. Haq underwent an angioplasty and is currently in a stable condition. The agent said he was hopeful that Haq will be discharged soon. Many athletes, public figures …

LAHORE: The maiden meeting of the Steering Committee on National Water Policy constituted back in 2018 will be held in Islamabad on Tuesday (today). It will be chaired by Federal Minister for Water Resources Moonis Elahi. The meeting was to be held on Friday (Sept 24), but had to be rescheduled due to unavailability of some members. To be attended …

ISLAMABAD: The government is expected to gradually increase petroleum levy on petrol and other petroleum products to improve revenue collection as targeted under the 2021-22 federal budget and IMF programme. The move would help widen a gap between compressed natural gas (CNG) and petrol prices and may contain import bill. The government had set a Rs610bn target of petroleum levy …

KARACHI: Amid a strong demand for dollars from panicky importers, the local currency could not put up any resistance and plunged to an all-time low at Rs169.60 against the greenback in the interbank market on Monday. Currency dealers said the interbank market was full of speculative reports and observations which hit the exchange rate negatively bringing the rupee under massive …

Days before Germany’s federal elections, Facebook took what it called an unprecedented step: the removal of a series of accounts that worked together to spread Covid-19 misinformation and encourage violent responses to Covid restrictions. The crackdown, announced on September 16, was the first use of Facebook’s new “coordinated social harm” policy aimed at stopping not state-sponsored disinformation campaigns but otherwise …