AHMEDABAD: Victorious India and dejected England players took a rest Friday on what should have been the third day of a key five-day clash, with warnings that the speed of the result had tarnished the Test format. New spin hero Axar Patel took 11 wickets in two innings as India cruised to a 10 wicket victory that put them 2-1 …

KARACHI: Multan Sultans got themselves off the mark in the HBL Pakistan Super League 6 fixture after on the back of captain Mohammad Rizwan’s dazzling batting form to hand Lahore Qalandars their first loss in three matches at the National Stadium here on Friday. In the first clash of the double header — with Peshawar Zalmi and Quetta Gladiators playing …

KARACHI: Peshawar Zalmi went on a sixes galore to pull off a stunning run chase that condemned Quetta Gladiators to a third straight defeat in the HBL Pakistan Super League 6 clash at the National Stadium on Friday night. Peshawar, who were seemingly behind a challenging rate till the 48th over, burst into contention thanks to cameos from Sherfane Rutherford …

ISLAMABAD: Weekly inflation for the combined group in the period ended on Feb 25 increased by 2.41 per cent on the back of an uptick in prices of essential food items, data released by the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) showed on Friday. The week-on-week change is the highest in the current month. Since January, an upward movement was noted …

KARACHI: Repatriation of profit and dividends rose 8.35 per cent to $1.025 billion during the first seven months of the current fiscal year compared to $946m in the same period last year, the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) reported on Friday. The outflow included repatriation of profits on foreign direct investment (FDI) and foreign portfolio investment (FPI). On FPI a …

se KARACHI: The stock market remained in search of direction on Friday as the euphoria witnessed on Thursday was all but gone. The KSE-100 index fell by 100.61 points, or 0.22 per cent, to 45,865.02. The major selling came from ‘’brokers proprietary trading’’ in the sum of $1m. Insurance companies also decided to take profit ahead of the weekend. Cherry-picking …

ISLAMABAD: The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) surpassed its collection target by Rs13 billion to Rs2.911 trillion in the first eight months of the current fiscal year, showed provisional data released by the tax authorities on Friday. It was the second consecutive month that the tax collection surpassed it projection. The revenue collection increased by nine per cent during July-February …

ISLAMABAD: Amid 78pc decline in total foreign investment, the Ministry of Finance on Friday raised expectations about economic recovery during the current fiscal year based on improved signs in first seven months. In its Monthly Economic Update & Outlook, the ministry reported that total foreign investment in July-January period amounted to $755 million against $3.438bn of comparable period last year, …

Esra Bilgic of Ertugrul fame on Friday left her fans swooning over her as she posted a couple of new pictures on Instagram. The  Turkish actress looked gorgeous in the photos  taken on the sets of her latest TV series titled “Ramo”. One of the pictures shows Esra Bilgic posing with her co-star. Esra plays the role of Halime Hatun, …

Hailey Bieber encouraged her husband Justin  Bieber in a sweet way after the singer’s mesmerising post about his upcoming album  ‘Justice’ which will  be dropped  next month. The supermodel seemed to make all her efforts to promote  her man’s  latest project as  she did in past when the singer  shared a new music video for his song ‘Anyone’, featuring the …