WASHINGTON: Unidentified governments are surveilling smart phone users via their apps’ push notifications, a US senator warned on Wednesday. In a letter to the Department of Justice, Senator Ron Wyden said foreign officials were demanding the data from Alphabet’s Google and Apple. Although details were sparse, the letter lays out yet another path by which governments can track smart phones. …

TEHRAN: Iran has launched a capsule designed to carry living beings in a step towards sending astronauts into space, state media reported on Wednesday — the latest test of aerospace technology criticised by the West. The capsule was successfully sent up to a height of 130 kilometres, the IRNA news agency quoted Telecommunications Minister Issa Zarepour as saying. He said the …

LONDON: Declan Rice’s header deep in stoppage time sealed an enthralling 4-3 victory for Arsenal at lowly Luton Town to send them provisionally five points clear at the top of the Premier League on Tuesday. Arsenal had been knoc­ked out of their stride by an energetic and direct Luton side and it looked as though they were about to extend …

MELBOURNE: Australia all-rounder Glenn Maxwell says the Indian Premier League (IPL) has been so good to him that he will play in the lucrative T20 competition until he “can’t walk anymore”. The IPL has been the perfect platform to showcase Maxwell’s explosive batting and the 35-year-old is one of four foreign recruits Royal Challengers Bangalore have retained for next season. …

KUALA LUMPUR: Arbaz Ahmed concerted a penalty stroke five minutes from time as Pakistan came back from 2-0 down to hold the Netherlands to a 3-3 draw in their opening match of the FIH Junior World Cup on Wednesday. The Dutch took a 2-0 lead by half-time in the Group ‘D’ clash at the Malaysia National Hockey Stadium; Boris Aardenburg …

LAHORE: South Afri­can top-order batter Reeza Hendricks and Sri Lankan spinner Maheesh Theekshana are among 485 players to have registered for the HBL-Pakistan Super League Players’ Draft, which will be held here at the National Cricket Academy on Dec 13. Hendriks, who is ranked ninth in the ICC’s ranking for T20 batters, and Theekshana, placed fifth among T20 bowlers, have …

The benchmark index of the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) continued its upward momentum on Thursday to cross the 64,000 milestone in yet another record high. According to the PSX website, the KSE-100 index gained 800.35 points at closing time to reach 64,718.07, up 1.25 per cent from the previous close of 63,917.72, nearing yet another barrier. The benchmark of representative shares, …

KARACHI: Federal Secretary Industries and Production Asad Rehman Gilani has said that while embarking on this journey with locally manufactured hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs) on our roads, let’s keep in mind, that the country must expedite exports to reduce the trade deficit. “I see no better partner to support this goal, than our long-term standing partner, Toyota,” he said while …

ISLAMABAD: Over 10,000 employees of Pakistan’s top tax authority have been identified as non-filers of income tax returns in the last two years, Dawn has learnt from knowledgeable sources. This raises serious concerns about the effectiveness of efforts to document the economy and broaden the tax base particularly when the tax authority itself struggles to ensure its employees are on the tax …