Yearly Archives: 2024
Pakistan’s Mohammad Abbas appealing to the umpire for an lbw of Tony de Zorri on the third day of the first Test against South Africa on December 28, 2024. — AFP CENTURION: Marco Jansen-rattled Pakistan made a comeback against South Africa as the side’s pacers dismissed three back-to-back Proteas batters ahead of stumps on the third […]
Russian President Vladimir Putin has apologised to his Azerbaijani counterpart Ilham Aliyev for what he called a “tragic incident” following the deadly crash of an Azerbaijan Airlines plane this week in Kazakhstan. The plane was flying on Wednesday from Azerbaijan’s capital of Baku to Grozny, the regional capital of the Russian republic of Chechnya, when […]
New Delhi: India achieved its highest-ever coal production of 997.826 million tonnes (MT) in the financial year 2023-24, reflecting a remarkable 11.71 per cent growth compared to 893.191 MT in 2022-23. According to the Ministry of Coal, under the Integrated Coal Logistics Plan the government has targeted Coal production of 1.5BT by FY 2030. During […]
J.J. Post, ESPNDec 28, 2024, 09:45 AM ET At approximately 7 p.m. ET on Saturday, the eyes of college football will be focused on a pastry. Last year, the inaugural Pop-Tarts Bowl (formerly the Cheez-It Bowl, the Camping World Bowl, and so on) made waves — but not for its on-field action. It was the […]
Listen to article ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s indigenously designed assessment system has dramatically reduced the clearance time of containers by 39% and curbed arm-twisting of importers by 83% in less than two weeks, reinforcing that real reforms do not need any foreign loan or advisory. After the implementation of the Faceless Customs Assessment (FCA) system, the average dwell time – […]
ROME: The Italian Senate on Saturday passed the government’s deficit-cutting 2025 budget, giving parliament’s final approval to the package which becomes law just ahead of an end-year deadline. Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s third budget aims to lower next year’s fiscal deficit to 3.3% of gross domestic product (GDP) from a targeted 3.8% in 2024, while […]
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Senator and Senate Standing Committee on Information Technology member Afnanullah Khan on Saturday pledged to support the digital rights bill. In an interview with a news channel, the senator stated that the PML-N would back the digital rights bill, underscoring the commitment to advancing the “Digital Pakistan” initiative. Khan highlighted […]
New Delhi: The country’s private telecom operators face twin challenges on investment recovery in the New Year – customers leaving their network after tariff hikes and satellite players mainly Elon Musk’s Starlink eyeing a chunk of their bread and butter data business. Private operators have invested around Rs 70,000 crore in telecom infrastructure and radiowave […]
Dungeons and Dragons has come a long way since making its debut 50 years ago. After decades spent as the pinnacle of nerd culture, the popular tabletop game has broken into the mainstream thanks in part to the success of Netflix’s mega-hit show “Stranger Things” and the best-selling videogame “Baldur’s Gate 3.” Indeed, D&D publisher […]
The intra-family differences in the Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK) unfolded in a dramatic fashion at the general council meeting on December 28 after the party’s founder S. Ramadoss announced the appointment of yet another family member as the head of PMK’s youth wing. A war of words erupted at the meeting in Puducherry between the […]