The divisional round of Major League Baseball’s 2024 playoffs is in full swing and the New York Mets are one win away from reaching the NLCS. The Mets returned to Citi Field on Tuesday for the first time in 16 days and beat the Philadelphia Phillies to take a 2-1 lead in their best-of-five series. … Read more
Islamabad: Chief Justice of Pakistan, Justice Faiz Isa, on Thursday strongly criticized the practice of allocating government jobs to children of bureaucrats, stressing the need for a transparent and merit-based recruitment system. “Are the children of bureaucrats somehow special? How can someone demand a job and say that their future generations should benefit as well?” … Read more
Fans of Elvis Presley – and his famous family – take a closer look at their lives in a posthumous memoir titled From Here to the Great Unknown, co-written by Lisa Marie Presley and her daughter Riley Keough. Oprah Winfrey She revealed the memoir as her latest book club pick on “CBS Mornings” on Tuesday. … Read more
MOSCOW: The Russian Interior Ministry has placed six foreign journalists on its wanted list for illegally crossing the Russian border to report in the Kursk region after a Ukrainian cross-border incursion, the TASS news agency reported on Thursday. Russia’s FSB security service announced last month that it had opened criminal proceedings against several journalists, including … Read more
This photo shows a Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) plane. – AFP/File Bidders say the risks outweigh the rewards without 100% ownership. An investment of $500 million cannot be justified without full management. The national carrier is burdened with liabilities worth Rs 200 billion. ISLAMABAD: Days after Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb reassured about the privatization of … Read more
A Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) plane prepares to take off at Allama Iqbal International Airport in Lahore on February 1, 2012. — Reuters The Governor of Sindh welcomes the displaced people at Karachi Airport. The governor confirms the safe return of the remaining Pakistanis in Lebanon. The government evacuates 67 Pakistanis from Lebanon and four … Read more
Based on the novel by Matt Haig, The Radleys is a vampire horror-comedy that can’t quite get its tone right, so more often than not, it ends up in a lukewarm middle ground. The British production stars Damian Lewis and Kelly Macdonald as Peter and Helen Radley, vampiric parents in recovery whose suburban normalcy can … Read more
Omar bin Laden, the fourth eldest son of former Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, poses during an exhibition in Le Teilleul, western France, July 1, 2022. — AFP PARIS: A son of al-Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden has been barred from returning to France, where he lived for years painting landscapes in a Normandy village, … Read more
Men use their mobile phones as they stand in front of an electronic board displaying stock market prices during a trading session on the floors of the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) in Karachi, on June 12, 2017. — Reuters Stocks are in a volatile state as investors go bullish on index-heavy stocks. Analysts expect a … Read more
Special report KARACHI: A large memorial ceremony was held in memory of the martyr leader of Hezbollah, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, the martyr leader of Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh, and other oppressed martyrs of Palestine and Lebanon, at Khaneh Farhang, Islamic Republic of Iran, Karachi, on Monday.Iranian Consul General Hassan Nourian, Director of Khana Farhang Iran Karachi … Read more