BRIDGETOWN: West Indies and Pakistan, the two supremely-talented Twenty20 teams, collide in a four-match series starting on Wednesday at Kensington Oval in Barbados before the contest shifts to Providence Stadium in Guyana for the remaining three matches. This was originally scheduled as a five-match series but last week’s Covid 19 scare during the ODI series between the West Indies and …

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan will start exporting mobile phones in January 2022, Commerce Adviser Razak Dawood said on Tuesday. In a testimony before the Senate Standing Committee on Commerce chaired by Senator Zeeshan Khanzada, the adviser said a Chinese company was setting up a mobile phone manufacturing factory in Karachi. Talking to following the committee meeting, Mr Dawood said the production of …

KARACHI: Federal development spending in 2020-21 nominally exceeded its target of Rs650 billion, marking the highest development fund utilisation since 2011-12. Minister for Planning and Development Asad Umar tweeted on Tuesday that spending under the Public Sector Development Programme (PSDP) in the last financial year remained Rs659bn or 101.4 per cent of the annual target. “In a year of Covid …

LAHORE: In a bid to recover Rs714 million from a Tehran-based firm, the Nati­onal Transmission and Disp­a­tch Company (NTDC) is considering various proposals including one about taking up the issue with the Iranian government and requesting it to adjust the amount in the payments made by Pakistan for the procurement of electricity from the neighbouring country. Talking to , NTDC …

ISLAMABAD: The government on Tuesday approved a new spectrum policy for commercial auction of next generation mobile and internet service after which connectivity of mobile phones and broadband facility will improve in urban as well as far-flung areas of the country. The decision was taken at a meeting of the federal cabinet presided over by Prime Minister Imran Khan. At …

ISLAMABAD: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has acknowledged Pakistan’s stronger economic activity and kept the global growth forecast largely unchanged at six per cent for the current year and 4.9pc for the next year. In its World Economic Outlook (WEO) update released on Tuesday, the IMF revised downward India’s current year growth forecast by three percentage points because of widespread Delta variant …

Dua Lipa has been surprised and horrified by DaBaby ‘homophobic’ comments he made during Rolling Loud, reportedly saying people with HIV and Aids ‘die after two, three weeks’. The singer, who featured the rapper on her song Levitating, was clearly alerted to the controversy as she directly addressed it on her social media. In a statement the New Rules singer …

American singer Ariana Grande seemed excited to be part of America’s singing competition The Voice as she has recently made her debut in the campy season 21. NBC has released a promo of Ariana Grande joining her fellow coaches on the show. The new season of the singing contest will begin on September 20 this year. The contest series will …

Prince Harry announced last week that he would release an autobiography in late 2022.  The Duke of Sussex described the upcoming book as an “accurate and wholly truthful” account of his journey from childhood to the present day. ‘Buckingham Palace is bracing for the revelations that may emerge from Prince Harry’s memoir and are already considering how to respond, according …

Paris Hilton has denied reports that she’s expecting her first baby, as she said she and Carter Reum are “waiting until after the wedding” to have children. The ‘This Is Paris’ star was rumoured to be pregnant with her first child with fiancé Carter Reum. On Tuesday (27.07.21), she took to her podcast series to shoot down the speculation, insisting …