NEW DELHI: India hammered Australia inside three days for the second time in a fortnight to retain the Border-Gavaskar Trophy on Sunday and are on the verge of qualifying for the World Test Cham­pionship (WTC) final in June. Ravindra Jadeja, who clai­m­ed a career-best 7-42, and Ravic­handran Ashwin bowled unchanged in the morning session, engineering a spectacular batting collapse that …

Pakistan’s current account deficit shrank 90.2 per cent to $0.24 billion in January from $2.47bn in the same month last year, data shared by the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) showed on Monday, as import restrictions continue to persist amid a balance of payments crisis that has brought the country on the verge of default. Compared to December’s $0.29bn, the …

Shares at the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) began dropping shortly after the opening bell on Monday, with analysts attributing it to uncertainty over an agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The benchmark KSE-100 index lost 426.91 points, or 1.04 per cent, to reach 40,691.70 points at 11:04am. Aba Ali Habib Securities’ Head of Research Salman Naqvi said there were …

SAN FRANCISCO: Facebook and Instagram owner Meta will launch a paid subscription service starting at $11.99 a month allowing users to verify their accounts, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced on Sunday, following a similar move by Elon Musk at Twitter. Meta Verified, which will roll out first in Australia and New Zealand this week, will let users verify an “account with …

NEW YORK: ChatGPT, Silicon Valley’s latest app sensation, has investors rushing to find the next big thing in generative AI, the technology that some hail as the beginning of a new era in big tech. Artificial intelligence (AI) has been increasingly present in everyday life for decades, but the November launch of the conversational robot from start-up OpenAI marked a …

Former US president Jimmy Carter has decided to receive hospice care and “spend his remaining time at home with his family” instead of additional medical intervention, the Carter Centre said on Saturday. Carter, 98, who has lived longer after leaving the White House than any former president in US history, was a Democrat who served from January 1977 to January …

MULTAN: Islamabad United had wrested a foothold at a raucous Multan Cricket Stadium against the Multan Sultans, a side thriving at their home ground, on Sunday. But then came that over by Usama Mir, tilting this HBL Pakistan Super League in his side’s favour. There had been a similar situation in the Sultans’ innings earlier — the loss of two …

The only newspaper of Bangladesh’s main opposition party halted printing on Monday after a government suspension order was upheld, stoking fears about media freedom in the South Asian nation. Campaigners and foreign governments including the United States have long expressed worries about efforts by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to silence criticism and what they see as creeping authoritarianism. The Dainik Dinkal, …

PAARL: West Indies captain Hayley Matthews inspired her team to a three-run win against Pakistan in a low-scoring Women’s T20 World Cup match at Boland Park in Paarl on Sunday. Veteran Pakistan all-rounder Nida Dar and her fellow slow bowlers restricted West Indies to 116 for six in their 20 overs. Pakistan were always behind the requ­ired run-rate but scored …

KARACHI: Pakistan must ensure that its high earners pay taxes and only the poor get the subsidies if it wants to function as a country, the International Mone­­tary Fund’s (IMF) managing director has said. “My heart goes to the people of Pakistan. They have been devastated by the floods that affected one-third of the population of the country,” Kristalina Georgieva …