LAHORE: Pakistan Cri­cket Board (PCB) chairman Ehsan Mani on Monday congratulated the national team on their sixth consecutive series win as Babar Azam became the first Pakistan captain to win his first four Tests. “On behalf of the Pakistan cricket fans, I want to congratulate our men’s team on completing the successful tours of South Africa and Zimbabwe,” Mani said …

NEW DELHI: This year’s suspended IPL cannot be completed in India while it battles a raging coronavirus crisis and could struggle to find a slot elsewhere, India’s cricket chief Sourav Ganguly has said. The Indian Premier League (IPL) was abruptly halted at the halfway stage last week after several players became infected. India is reporting nearly 4,000 deaths and about …

LAHORE: Pakistan Cricket Board’s problems in organising the remaining 20 matches of the HBL Pakistan Super League-6 (PSL) in the UAE were compounded on Monday after the latter banned the entry of a number of South Asian nationals, including Pakistanis, due to Covid-19 crisis for an indefinite period starting on May 12. Besides Pakistanis, the UAE government also banned the …

KARACHI: After a fairy-tale debut at the highest level with century apiece in his first two Tests, Abid Ali was destined to move places. However, what he had achieved against Sri Lanka during that landmark series in December 2019 was forgotten rather soon. The diminutive opener’s returns from the next 14 innings since scoring a fifth-day 102 — unbeaten — …

Shehroze Kashif, 19, became the youngest Pakistani mountaineer to reach the summit of Mount Everest — 8,848.86 metres — on Tuesday. In an update on Facebook, Nepalese mountaineer and the expedition manager of Seven Summit Treks, Chhang Dawa Sherpa, congratulated Kashif for becoming the youngest Pakistani to climb Mount Everest. “This morning Kashif successfully climbed the Mt. Everest as a part of …

ISLAMABAD: The National Price Monitoring Committee (NPMC) on Monday directed provincial government departments to keep the prices of basic commodities in check and import four million tonnes of wheat for building buffer stock. The NPMC at a meeting, chaired by Finance Minister Shaukat Tarin, declared that cartelisation would not be tolerated at any cost. Stern action should be taken by …

KARACHI: While taking full advantage of ineffective price checking mechanism and soaring demand ahead of Eidul Fitr, meat merchants came out with another price jump of Rs50-100 per kg in veal beef rates. The new price of veal meat with and without bones charged by various meat merchants is Rs750 and Rs850 per kg which was Rs630-650 and Rs730-750 ahead …

PARIS: Electric cars will be cheaper to build than fossil fuel vehicles across Europe within six years and could represent 100 per cent of new sales by 2035, according to a study published on Monday. Carmakers are shifting en masse to electric and hybrid models in order to bring average fleet emissions under a European Union limit of 95 grams …

LAHORE: In a bid to keep its power transmission and distribution system upgraded and stable, the National Transmission and Dispatch Company (NTDC) has installed three shunt reactors of 22-MVAR capacity on the 152km-long 500kV Dadu-Jamshoro transmission line emanating from the 500kV Dadu grid station. The NTDC’s Hyderabad-based team also energised the reactors worth Rs340 million on Monday, according to a …