Workers fired by SpaceX filed a lawsuit Wednesday accusing Elon Musk of fostering a sexist “Dark Ages” culture at the company he founded. The civil complaint filed in a California court in Los Angeles contends Musk had the workers terminated after they published an open letter detailing their concerns and calling on the American aerospace firm’s board to distance itself …

LAHORE: Punjab CM Maryam Nawaz has constituted a three-member committee to probe the Sahiwal Hospital fire incident that claimed lives of eight infants, earlier this month. Maryam Nawaz was chairing a meeting to review the progress on health reforms in the province. The committee will be held by provincial advisor, Azhar Kiani. She tasked the committee to identify the responsible …

ISLAMABAD: The federal government has allocated Rs27,000 million for 27 ongoing and 14 new schemes of the Ministry of National Health Services, Regulations and Coordination in the Public Sector Development Programme (PSDP) for the fiscal year 2024-25. According to the budgetary document released on Wednesday, out of the total allocation, Rs 7,131.330 million has been earmarked for ongoing schemes and …

Suryakumar Yadav hit an unbeaten half-century and left-arm seamer Arshdeep Singh claimed a career-best 4-9 as India defeated the United States by seven wickets to reach the T20 World Cup second round on Wednesday. Chasing 111 to win the Group A clash, India were rattled at 15-2 and then 44-3 before Yadav (50) and Shivam Dube (31) put on an …

CAPE TOWN: Striker Ayoub El Kaabi netted a hat-trick as Morocco stormed to a 6-0 win over Congo in World Cup qualification on Tuesday, maintaining their 100 per cent start to the African preliminaries for the 2026 finals in North America. Other leading contenders Cameroon and African champions Ivory Coast, were held to away draws on a busy day of action …

RAMALLAH: The majority of Palestinian Olympic hopefuls are counting on wildcards from the International Olympic Committee to take part in the Paris Games amid the ongoing fighting in Gaza, Jibril Rajoub, president of the Palestinian Olympic Committee, said on Wednesday. One Palestinian athlete — in taekwondo — has qualified in his own right while others are training to meet the …

LAUDERHILL: Heavy rain and a waterlogged outfield led to the abandonment of the T20 World Cup match between Sri Lanka and Nepal on Tuesday in Florida. The result meant that Group ‘D’ leaders South Africa, who have won all three of their games, became the first team to qualify for the Super Eight stage of the tournament. Rain had poured down for …

NORTH SOUND: Australia marched into the Super Eights of the T20 World Cup with a nine-wicket demolition of Namibia at the Sir Vivian Richards Stadium in Antigua on Tuesday. Adam Zampa led the rout of an outclassed Namibia with figures of 4-12, becoming the first Australian man to reach 100 T20I wickets. The southern Africans were bundled out for just …

Bulls returned to the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) on Thursday — a day after the government proposed its budget for FY2024-25 — as shares saw a massive gain of more than 2,700 points in intraday trade. The KSE-100 index gained 2735.07 points, or 3.75 per cent to stand at 75,579.23 at 12:17pm, the PSX data portal showed. It then receded to stand …

ISLAMABAD: The government has decided to enhance the subsidies to merged districts of former Fata in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, mainly in the power sector, while increasing the food subsidies to the Gilgit-Baltistan region. The federal government has decided to grant Rs86 billion in power subsidy arrears for erstwhile Fata in the budget, and Rs65bn has been allocated in power subsidy for …