Warm and more humid air has returned to North Texas, but it won’t last all that long. Look for mostly sunny skies Wednesday and Thursday with highs in the upper 80s. The warm and dry weather will stick around through early Friday, before another cold front pays us a visit with a chance for a few spotty showers. The weekend …

LONDON: England’s players can withdraw from tours if they feel playing in bio-secure bubbles during the Covid-19 pandemic will take a toll on their mental health, limited overs captain Eoin Morgan has said. England hosted West Indies, Pakistan and Austr­alia after cricket’s restart in July, with the teams restri­cted to playing in Manchester and Southampton where the ECB had set …

ISLAMABAD: England all-rounder Moeen Ali believes the English team’s proposed tour to Pakistan early next year would be a massive achievement and a huge step towards the revival of international cricket in the country. According to recent media reports, talks between the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) and the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) are underway for England’s tour to …

LAHORE: Celebrated international umpire Aleem Dar has been assigned on-field duties in five of the six upcoming white-ball matches between Pakistan and Zimbabwe, which will be played from Oct 30 to Nov 10. The three 50-over ICC Cricket World Cup Super League matches will be played at the Pindi Cricket Stadium in Rawalpindi, while Lahore’s Gaddafi Stadium will host the …

WASHINGTON: The US government filed a blockbuster lawsuit on Tuesday accusing Google of maintaining an “illegal monopoly” in online search and advertising in the country’s biggest antitrust case in decades — and opening the door to a potential breakup of the Silicon Valley titan. The politically-charged case, which could take years to play out, draws new battle lines between the …

ISLAMABAD: The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) on Tuesday said that 127 projects worth Rs63 billion were registered with the tax department under Prime Minister’s Package for Construction Sector. In addition, a total of 108 persons are also in the process of registering 114 projects at a projected cost of Rs109bn under the amnesty scheme. So far, 61 projects from Karachi …

ISLAMABAD: Zimb­abwe’s cricket squad arrived in Pakistan on Tuesday — minus their Indian coach Lalchand Rajput, who had been advised to stay away from the rival South Asian nation. The 20-man Zimbabwe team will be competing in a series of three One-day internationals and three Twenty20 Internationals against Babar Azam-led Pakistan side. The entire One-day International rubber will be played …

ISLAMABAD: Minister for Petroleum Division Omar Ayub Khan has acknowledged that the country is going to face a serious natural gas shortage in upcoming winter months due to a gap between the demand and supply of gas. He highlighted that during winter months, gas consumption by the domestic sector increased manifold on account of use of room and water heaters. …

KARACHI: Stocks skyrocketed on Tuesday with the KSE-100 index up by 616.41 points (1.53 per cent) to settle a stone’s throw away from the 41,000 level at 40,956.58. Although, after two successive days of positive closures, traders expected the market to be ripe for another major rally, the ferocity of the bulls surprised the investors. The market started out in …

KARACHI: State Bank Governor Dr Reza Baqir on Tuesday inaugurated the first Polyculture Forest project, envisaging an “urban forest” on 5,000 square met­r­­es of land on the premises of Pakistan Security Print­ing Corporation, Karachi. Under the project, about 15,000 saplings of 45 indigenous species will be planted using the Miyawaki method, a technique introduced by Japanese botanist Akira Miyawaki which …