Meta-owned WhatsApp is reportedly working on new customisation features in a beta version for iOS. The instant messaging platform’s update tracker portal, WABetaInfo, has reported that WhatsApp for iOS would soon get the ability to customise the main colour palette of the app and also customise the chat bubble colour. WhatsApp started testing back in January a feature that allowed …

FRANCAVILLA: Jonathan Milan of Lidl-Trek outsprinted Tim Merlier to win stage 11 of the Giro d’Italia on Wednesday, his second stage win of this year’s race, with Tadej Pogacar maintaining his hold on the leader’s jersey. The 207km ride from Foiano di Val Fortore to Francavilla al Mare had a flat final 100km, meaning this was always likely to be …

KATHMANDU: Former Nepali cricket captain Sandeep Lamic­hhane had his conviction and eight-year sentence for rape quashed on appeal on Wednesday and was cleared to resume his sporting career despite the cloud cast by the case. Lamichhane was accused of raping a young woman in a Kathmandu hotel in 2022 but was freed on bail and returned to the team to …

NEW DELHI: The newly-built Nassau County Intern­ational Cricket Stadium, near New York, was launched on Wednesday with the sport’s world body “excited” to conquer new territories through the T20 World Cup in June. The 34,000-capacity stadium, with infrastructure from the Las Vegas Formula 1 circuit and drop-in pitches prepared in Florida, will host the hotly-anticipated India-Pakistan clash on June 9, …

DUBLIN: With the T20 World Cup in mind, Pakistan captain Babar Azam says that the team will continue to play with the same positive intent against England which the green-shirts displayed in the last two games of the Ireland series that ended on Tuesday. In a post-match conversation with the PCB YouTube channel in Dublin on Tuesday night, Babar said …

ISLAMABAD: Pakis­tan’s volleyball team stretched their unbeaten run to four games as they thrashed Kyrg­y­zstan 3-0 (25-18, 27-25, 27-25) in the Central Asian Volle­y­ball Championship here at the Liaquat Gymn­asium of the Pakistan Sports Complex on Wednesday. With their fourth successive win in the tournament, the national team all but ensured their spot in the final. Pakistan claimed the first …

India’s star javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra predictably won gold in his first competition at home in three years, but refused to read too much into his below-par 82.27 metre throw as he prepares to defend his Olympic title in Paris. Chopra began his season with a second-place finish at the Diamond League meeting in Doha on Friday, immediately dashing home …

It would not be Pakistan cricket if it were elaborate, calculated, and structured. There has to be an element of uncertainty. It is, after all, that “mercurial” tag that makes Pakistan cricket so intoxicating. How else would you define a side that suffered a shocking loss to a team that rarely plays against bigger nations and, despite all its promise, ranked outside …

ISLAMABAD: The government has formally sought about a 25 per cent increase in the base national electricity tariff to become effective from July 1, 2025, to secure a revenue requirement of about Rs4 trillion in FY25 for power companies. The National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (Nepra) has called a public hearing on May 23 to examine a petition filed by …