LEEDS: Mark Wood has been ruled out of this week’s third Test with India dealing a blow to the hosts’ hopes of levelling the five-match series which the tourists lead 1-0. The 31-year-old has a jarred right shoulder, a result of diving headlong into an advertising hoarding when saving a boundary on the fourth evening of the second Test at …

Samsung Group unveiled a $205 billion investment blueprint on Tuesday aimed at making the company a leader in a range of technologies from semiconductors to robotics and creating 40,000 new jobs. The tech giant is South Korea’s largest conglomerate and its overall turnover is equivalent to a fifth of the national gross domestic product. Samsung Electronics, its flagship subsidiary, is …

ISLAMABAD: Federal Coordination Committee of Sports, headed by Federal Minister of Inter-Provincial Coordination (IPC) Dr Fehmida Mirza, on Monday came down hard on the Pakistan Olympic Association for the poor performance of national athletes in the Tokyo Games and reiterated its demand for the incumbent POA president’s resignation. “All the participants expressed concern over Pakistan’s performance in the recent Olympics …

Facebook is letting some users make voice and video calls within its main app on a trial basis, aiming to make it easier to place calls without opening its standalone Messenger app. The social media giant spun out Messenger from its main app years ago, meaning users would have to download a separate app in order to send messages and …

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan on Monday held separate meetings with Pakistan Cricket Board chairman Ehsan Mani and former Test opener Ramiz Raja amid speculations over the appointment of the next PCB chairman. While Mani’s three-year term is ending on Wednesday, sources said the prime minister wanted to replace Mani with Ramiz, the cricket-turned-commentator. However during the meeting on Monday, …

LAHORE: Pakistan’s Olympic chief isn’t going to bow down to the government’s demand to step down. Instead, retired Lt Gen Arif Hasan is looking forward to the challenge. With members of the Pakistan Olympic Association general council in attendance during a news conference at a local hotel on Monday, POA president Arif joined them from the United States via a …

A one-day series between Pakistan and Afghanistan, scheduled for next month in Sri Lanka, has been postponed until 2022 following the Taliban’s takeover of power in Afghanistan. The two countries were due to play three ODI matches in early September in Sri Lanka, but the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) said late on Monday that the Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB) had …

Pakistan threw down the gauntlet to the West Indies on the penultimate day of the two-match Test series on Monday, setting the hosts 329 to win as the visitors chase a series-levelling victory at Jamaica’s Sabina Park. West Indies will start Tuesday’s final day at 49 for one, 280 runs away from the target as Pakistan bid to square the …

Bazaar, a year-old B2B marketplace from Pakistan, has raised $30 million in Series A financing co-led by Silicon Valley-based Defy Partner and Singapore-based Wavemaker Partners. According to a press statement, the round takes Bazaar’s total funding to $38m, “making it one of the best funded startups in the country”. Other investors who took part in the round included US-based Acrew …