ISLAMABAD: The novel coronavirus claimed four more lives during the past 24 hours, bringing the death toll from the disease to 6,517. According to the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC), 29,565 samples were tested for Covid-19 during this period, out of which 644 were declared positive. The number of infections across the country has reached 315,260 with the addition …

ISLAMABAD: A doctor deputed at the Polyclinic Islamabad has been confirmed with coronavirus citing sources.  The doctor, whose identity has been kept secret, was working in the Urology department of the hospital and was tested after showing signs of the coronavirus infection on Saturday. After the confirmation of the virus, the infected doctor has been isolated, said the sources within …

Disrupting the future of work was something we expected the robots to do and, to an extent, they did as well. But then Covid-19 entered the party in style, sweeping everyone off their feet and becoming the talk of the town. Sure, the shift didn’t come through humans getting replaced by machines, as the essays often warned us, but through …

PARIS: Teenagers Jannik Sinner and Iga Swiatek sent shockwaves through Roland Garros on Sunday, reaching their maiden Grand Slam quarter-finals, as 12-time champion Rafael Nadal breezed into the last eight for the 14th time. World No.54 Swiatek, 19, shocked top seed and women’s title favourite Simona Halep 6-1, 6-2. Italy’s Sinner, also 19 and ranked 75, defeated sixth seed and …

LONDON: Arsenal moved into the Premier League top four as two goals in three minutes saw off Sheffield United 2-1, while Leicester City’s perfect start came to a shuddering halt with a 3-0 defeat at home to West Ham United. Arsenal have taken nine points from their opening four games as they look to return to Champions League football for …

KARACHI: Talented Haris Tahir has joined the three seniors — Mohammad Asif, Mohammad Sajjad and Mohammad Bilal — in the semi-finals of the 12th National Bank of Pakistan (NBP) Ranking Snooker Championship at the bank’s sports complex on Sunday. Haris, the reigning national U-21 champion, was stretched to limits by another junior national U-16 and U-18 champion Mohammad Ramzan before …

KARACHI: Southern Punjab seemed to have struck a roadblock in the First XI competition of the National T20 Cup as they suffered their fourth defeat on the trot while going down by 16 runs against Balochistan in Multan on Sunday. After being denied by Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in a riveting contest at the Multan Cricket Stadium late on Saturday night, Shan …

DUBAI: The Indian Premier League (IPL) has launched an investigation after one of the players in this year’s tournament in the United Arab Emirates reported being approached for possible corruption, the league’s integrity chief said on Sunday. The world’s richest cricket league, long plagued by corruption, is in its third week and is being played behind closed doors because of …

The revival of demand after the lockdown has brought back investors to the auto market along with the menace of “on money” or premium. Impatient buyers with excess cash in hand happily pay extra money to car dealers for instant delivery instead of waiting for months on end. Another factor that triggered the “on money” phenomenon was the curbs on …

ISLAMABAD: A virtual meeting of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) plenary scheduled for Oct 21-23 will decide if Pakistan should be excluded from its ‘grey list’, based on a review of Islamabad’s performance to meet global commitments and standards on fight against money laundering and terror financing (ML&TF). The FATF plenary was earlier scheduled in June but Islamabad got …