KARACHI: As India ended a 41-year medal drought in Olympic hockey, picking bronze at the Tokyo Games last month, thoughts inevitably shifted to Pakistan’s long wait which will stretch to 32 years come Paris 2024. The Pakistan Hockey Federation, though, remains hopeful Pakistan’s Olympic medal drought wouldn’t stretch to four decades even if things seem bleak at this point in …

COLOMBO: Fast bowler Lasith Malinga, who led Sri Lanka to victory at the 2014 Twenty20 World Cup, on Tuesday quit T20 Internationals to complete his retirement as a player. The 38-year-old, one of the most successful limited over bowlers of all time with his distinctive ‘sling’ action, said he would now devote himself to supporting the next generation of cricketers. …

Apple Inc on Tuesday unveiled a new iPhone 13 and 13 Mini with brighter screens to entice customers into 5G plans, while also announcing updates to its iPads and watches. The iPhone 13 will have a new chip called the A15 Bionic that will power features like automatically detecting when the phone’s camera is pointed at text. Apple said the …

ISLAMABAD: Efforts have been under way to ensure that highways and motorways across the country have uninterrupted coverage of telecom and broadband services by the end of next year, it emerged on Tuesday. At a recent briefing about progress over the past three years on projects to provide telecom coverage in unserved patches of the national highways (NH) and motorways …

SEOUL: South Korea’s competition watchdog plans to fine Google at least 207.4 billion won ($177 million) for allegedly blocking smartphone makers like Samsung from using other operating systems, in what would be one of the country’s biggest anti-trust penalties ever. Google said it plans to challenge the fine. It has accused South Korean authorities of disregarding how its software policy …

RAWALPINDI: Pakistan leg-spinner Usman Qadir on Tuesday said he was trying to gain as much as he could from spin great Saqlain Mushtaq. “Saqlain’s presence in the dressing room is an opportunity for the spinners to learn the art of spin from him. As a spinner, I am taking advantage of that,” the 28-year-old Usman said in a video shared …

COLOMBO: Inspired bowling and unbeaten fifties from Quinton de Kock and Reeza Hendricks helped South Africa sweep the Twenty20 series 3-0 against Sri Lanka with a crushing 10-wicket win on Tuesday. Chasing 121 for victory, South Africa romped home in 14.4 overs with De Kock on 59 and Hendricks making 56 in the third T20 in Colombo. South African bowlers …

KARACHI: Glenn Pocknall, the New Zealand interim head coach, vowed on Tuesday, how the visitors will be coming hard at Pakistan during the forthcoming One-day Inter­national series in Rawal­pindi, despite the three matches not being part of the World Cup Super League — the qualification process for the 50-over mega event in 2023. The status of those fixtures were changed …

ISLAMABAD: The government will revise prices of petroleum products on Wednesday (today). The prices may be increased by up to Rs10.5 per litre for the next fortnight if the calculations of the Oil & Gas Regulatory Authority (Ogra) are accepted by the government. However, a senior official told Dawn that the government might pass on a partial impact of increase in imported …