Acts of discrimination will not be tolerated: BCCI secretary

NEW DELHI: BCCI secretary Jay Shah on Sunday reacted strongly to the racist slurs hurled at Indian cricketers during the third Test in Australia, saying such “acts of discrimination will not be tolerated” since racism has no place in sport and society. Shah denounced the abuses that pacers Mohammed Siraj and Jasprit Bumrah had to […]

Power supply restored in many Pak cities after massive blackout

Power supply restored in many Pak cities after massive blackout

  Islamabad: Power supply was restored fully or partially on Sunday in many cities in Pakistan, including the national capital Islamabad, hours after several towns in the country plunged into darkness following a huge blackout due to a fault in the power distribution system. The power outage was reported shortly before midnight almost simultaneously in […]

Indonesian divers find parts of plane wreckage in Java Sea

Indonesian divers find parts of plane wreckage in Java Sea

Jakarta:  Indonesian divers on Sunday located parts of the wreckage of a Boeing 737-500 at a depth of 23 meters (75 feet) in the Java Sea, a day after the aircraft with 62 people onboard crashed shortly after takeoff from Jakarta. We received reports from the diver team that the visibility in the water is […]

IMF says China recovering fast ahead of most big economies

IMF says China recovering fast ahead of most big economies

Washington: China is recovering fast ahead of most large economies, but the recovery is still unbalanced and facing significant downside risks, the IMF has said, projecting an eight per cent growth rate for the world’s second largest economy in 2021. However, the main concern around the Chinese recovery that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has […]

18,645 fresh cases push India’s COVID-19 tally to 1,04,50,284

18,645 fresh cases push India’s COVID-19 tally to 1,04,50,284

New Delhi: India’s COVID-19 caseload rose to 1,04,50,284 with 18,645 infections being reported in a day, while the recoveries have surged to 1,00,75,950, according to the Union Health Ministry’s data updated on Sunday. The death toll reached 1,50,999 with 201 more people succumbing to the disease in a span of 24 hours, the data updated […]

Massive power outage in Pakistan

Massive power outage in Pakistan

Islamabad: Several cities and towns in Pakistan plunged into darkness after a huge blackout, according to media reports. The outage was reported shortly before midnight on Sunday almost simultaneously in many cities, the Dawn reported. Residents of Karachi, Rawalpindi, Lahore, Islamabad, Multan, and others faced the blackout, the reports stated. Islamabad Deputy Commissioner Hamza Shafqaat […]