MUMBAI: India captain Virat Kohli said confining players to ‘bubbles’ for months on end is not sustainable and the game has to consider scheduling changes to reduce the mental toll tours are taking during the Covid-19 pandemic. Kohli’s comments come as cricketers prepare to head into another restricted environment for two months for the IPL. “As I said a couple …

CENTURION: Pakistan head coach Misbah-ul-Haq said on Monday he believed the venues for two white-ball series in South Africa would suit his team, as they stepped up preparations after arriving in the country. Misbah, speaking for the first time since Pakistan arrived in South Africa, said he looked forward to three One-day internationals and four Twenty20 Internationals, which will be …

LAHORE: The Pakistan Cricket Board has put on hold the request of its chief executive Wasim Khan, who is seeking one-year extension in his tenure, till patron Prime Minister Imran Khan decides about PCB chairman Ehsan Mani’s future whether to extend his three-year tenure ending in September this year. According to the contract signed with Wasim, the PCB can extend …

KARACHI: The stock market witnessed bloodbath on Monday as investors dumped shares, panicked by the sinking values as the country was rocked by the third wave of Covid-19. After five months, the KSE-100 index lost more than 1,000 points in a day to plunge by 1,090 points, or 2.39 per cent, to close at 44,432. A sum of Rs192 billion …

ISLAMABAD: The Ministry of Textile Industry on Monday sought permission from the Economic Coordination Committee of the cabinet to lift ban on import of cotton and cotton yarn from India in a bid bridge raw material shortfall for the value-added textile sector, Dawn has learnt from official sources. The import of these raw materials will lead to partial revival of …

American media personality Oprah Winfrey is opening up about how she feels being fully vaccinated. Penning an essay after receiving the COVID-19 vaccine, the talk show host said she feels blessed to have gotten the jab. She wrote for her new digital platform Oprah Daily and said: “Stedman [Graham] and I were blessed enough to be able to create our …

Miranda Lambert is introspecting writing songs together with ex-husband Blake Shelton. The famed Country singer recalled how she made Shelton process the pain of the loss if his brother through the song Over You.  While talking on the Monday episode of Essentials Radio on Apple Music, Lambert said,  “My ex-husband, Blake, had lost a brother and it’s one of those moments where even …

Demi Lovato got candid about her sexuality. In a recent interview, the Heart Attack star revealed how she feels on being part of the LGBTQ+ community. Opening up about being pansexual, the Disney alum said in a new interview on The Joe Rogan Experience, “In this moment I want to adopt [children] for sure,” she explained. “I also don’t know if I’m …

British broadcaster Piers Morgan has questioned Prince Harry’s happiness in his marriage with Meghan Markle. In a charged piece penned for the Mail on Sunday, the talk show host asked how the Duke of Sussex could actually be happy going against his family with the Oprah Winfrey interview and supporting his “social climber” wife. “I expected such disingenuous. self-serving wrecking-ball stuff …

Hollywood actor Reese Witherspoon may be a superstar but certain people have managed to even leave her star struck. In her 2018-published autobiography, titled Whiskey in a Teacup, the Legally Blonde star recalled the moment she met Kate Middleton in 2011 and was left completely awe-struck. Writing about their meeting in Los Angeles, Witherspoon shared: “I felt relatively immune from the obsession with …