LAHORE: Upcoming golfer Osama Nadeem of Sargodha Golf Club annexed the net trophy in the Quaid-i-Azam Amateur Golf Championship at the Lahore Gymkhana Course here on Sunday. Osama made a three-day aggregate of 209 to lift the title, while exhibiting excellence in application of golfing skills in each one of the three rounds. On the first day Osama had a …

LONDON: A 90th-minute goal from striker Jamie Vardy gave Leicester City a 2-1 win at Sheffield United in the Premier League on Sunday, lifting the Foxes back into the top four while leaving the Blades rooted to the bottom of the table. Leicester moved up to third on 21 points from 11 games, while Sheffield United stayed in last place …

HAMILTON: New Zealand stretched their unbeaten run at home to 14 matches with a comprehensive win in the first Test against the West Indies in Hamilton on Sunday after ending a battling rearguard century by Jermaine Blackwood. The West Indies were all out before lunch on day four for 247 after making only 138 in their first innings in reply …

ISLAMABAD: The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has received nearly 23 per cent less income tax returns for the tax year 2020 compared to the preceding year ahead of the Dec 8 deadline. The board received 1.31 million tax returns until Dec 5 as against 1.69m returns filed in the tax year 2019. These include both salaried and non-salaried individuals, …

SYDNEY: Hardik Pandya smashed two sixes in three balls in the final over to power India to a thrilling six-wicket series T20 International victory over Australia in Sydney on Sunday. Chasing 25 runs in the final two overs in pursuit of Australia’s target of 195, Pandya was India’s hero with a series of powerful strikes — including the winning six …

tea Pakistan’s cricket team have been cleared to leave managed isolation in Christchurch on Tuesday, pending final health ministry approval, after no positive results were recorded in a fifth round of Covid-19 testing, New Zealand Cricket (NZC) said. The team had their exemption to train revoked last week after eight members of the 53-strong squad tested positive during their stay in isolation. …

The economic recovery we currently see in Pakistan is weak and slow. Whether it can be strengthened and accelerated depends as much on politics as on economic policymaking. Some signs of the economic recovery are obvious: the large-scale manufacturing (LSM) output has started growing, tax revenue collection is finally catching up with the target, the current account is in surplus, …

• Evaluation department cites lack of political backing to reforms • Report finds fault with bank’s performance ISLAMABAD: The independent evaluation department (IED) of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) has expressed concern over insufficient political support to reforms, inadequate staffing and poor funding to development projects, resulting in suboptimal outcome of its $7 billion support over the past five years. …

Another week, another report from the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP). It’s the Payments Systems Review for July-September. It reveals that the total payments transactions grew by 23 per cent year-on-year in volume and 8pc in value in the first quarter of 2020-21. Mostly the report tells us what we have already been seeing for a long time: PRISM transactions …

Netflix has refused to add a disclaimer to the beginning of each episode of The Crown, a popular historical show, to warn viewers that the series is a work of fiction, Independent reported on Sunday. The demanded was also made by UK’s culture secretary Oliver Dowde last week. In a statement issued to The Mail On Sunday, the streaming giant …