WASHINGTON/BRUSSELS: The United States formally exited the Paris Agreement on Wednesday, fulfilling an old promise by President Donald Trump to withdraw the world’s second-largest greenhouse gas emitter from the global pact to fight climate change. But the outcome of the tight U.S. election contest will determine for how long. Trump’s Democratic rival, Joe Biden, has promised to rejoin the agreement …

ISLAMABAD: The First-ever fastest 5G video call experiment has been carried out successfully in Pakistan. Federal Minister of IT and Telecommunication Syed Aminul Haque using high-speed internet made a 5G video call to Beijing and enjoyed the best quality of video and audio. The Inauguration ceremony of experimental 5G video call was held here at Zong Headquarter Islamabad. While speaking …

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Blind Cricket Council, for the game development and to provide access to sports for female players with visual impairment, is conducting a training camp for blind women cricketers here in Islamabad from Nov 5-10. The camp will last for six days in which almost 30 women players from Peshawar, Abbottabad, Attock, Rawalpindi, Islamabad and Gilgit-Baltistan will be provided …

BUENOS AIRES: Argentine football great Diego Maradona was in recovery after successful surgery to treat a subdural hematoma, a blood clot on the brain, the former World Cup winner’s doctor said late on Tuesday. The operation, after Maradona, 60, was admitted to hospital a day earlier, was to address the clot, often caused by a head injury, and which can …

CHRISTCHURCH: New Zealand head coach Gary Stead will be anxiously awaiting the outcome of medical checks over the next week with six of his cricketers nursing injuries as they prepare to face West Indies later this month. Stead’s side face the tourists, who are in isolation in a bio-secure facility in Christchurch for the next 10 days, in three Twenty20 …

KARACHI: The head of high performance coaching, Pakistan Cricket Board, Grant Bradburn has made his methodology clear by saying that coaching is about developing quality relationships, quality environments of learning with two things — winning and developing players. Talking in an interview to a private TV channel, the former Kiwi Test cricketer further said that they were guiding and challenging …

KARACHI: The stock market relapsed into the red only a day after booking massive gains as investors decided to take profit on the side of caution. The KSE-100 index shed 198.92 points (0.49 per cent) and closed at 40,281.96 in a choppy trade that kept the index range-bound between the intra-day high and low by 433 and 257 points. The …

LAHORE: Pakistan hockey suffered a huge loss with the passing away of former national captain and hockey legend Abdul Rasheed Junior in Islamabad after a brief illness at the age of 79. The former Olympian — regarded as one of the finest centre-forwards the country ever produced — was a gifted spearhead who held many records in the days when …

ISLAMABAD: The export of services rebounded and posted a growth of 12.66 per cent year-on-year to $463.16 million in September, data released by the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) showed on Wednesday. The first two months of 2020-21 witnessed negative growth in the export of services. However, the service exports between July-September period fell by 5.4pc to $1.225 billion as …

KARACHI: Cement sector registered ‘highest-ever monthly despatches’ of 5.73 million tonnes in October compared to 4.98m tonnes in the same month last year, said a statement re­­leased by the All Pakistan Cement Manufac­turers’ Associa­tion showed on Wednesday. The local cement uptake in October increased by 16 per cent to 4.86m tonnes from 4.19m tonnes in October 2019 while exports rose …