BERLIN: Bundesliga players wore black armbands and took the knee in displays of support for the Black Lives Matter protests on Saturday, as Bayern Munich took another step toward a record-extending eighth straight title with a ninth successive win. Bayern striker Robert Lewandowski scored his 30th league goal of the season as Bayern came from […]
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MONACO: Salwa Eid Naser was already being investigated for missing doping tests when she raced to an upset win in the 400 metres at the world track and field championships. The Athletics Integrity Unit confirmed on Sunday that Naser was already under scrutiny for three whereabouts failures prior to her world championship win in Doha […]
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KABUL: Afghanistan’s national cricket team began a month-long training camp Sunday, even as the coronavirus was spreading widely across the country and an international aid organisation warned it was on the brink of a humanitarian crisis. Afghanistan has officially recorded more than 20,000 cases countrywide, but the actual number is believed to be much higher. […]
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LONDON: Arsenal, Manchester United and Chelsea were among the clubs who stepped up their preparations for the Premier League’s return by holding practice matches on Saturday. Clubs are attempting to build up players’ fitness as well as get used to playing without fans before the league resumes on June 17 following a 100-day suspension due […]
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LONDON: The International Cricket Council (ICC) board meeting on Wednesday could see the global governing body uphold a recommendation to prohibit the use of saliva in order to stop the transmission of the novel coronavirus (Covid-19). Bowlers traditionally get the ball to move or swing in the air, thereby making it harder for batsmen to hit, […]
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KARACHI: The strained-relations between Pakistan People’s Party government in Sindh and federal government of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf are likely to get worse over the planned privatisation of the Pakistan Steel Mills (PSM) as the provincial administration on Sunday claimed that it owned the land worth billions of rupees of the industrial giant and Islamabad couldn’t make […]
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KARACHI: Pakistan Peoples Party chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari has stressed for assigning priorities to health and agriculture sectors in the next Sindh budget 2020-21 as fighting coronavirus and locust attacks shall be the top-most agenda to save human lives and avert famine and food insecurity. Mr Bhutto-Zardari was given a briefing through a video link by […]
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ISLAMABAD: The federal government on Sunday decided to allow wheat import by the private sector without any restriction of limit and abolished 60 per cent regulatory duty on the import of wheat — the major staple food crop in Pakistan. A meeting chaired by Prime Minister Imran Khan also decided to abolish six per cent […]
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• PM’s aide says govt will take on all mafias• NAB, FIA, others tasked to take legal actions• PML-N slams PTI for helping Tareen leave the country ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan on Sunday approved massive investigations through various accountability organisations for taking action against the ‘sugar cartel’ allegedly involved in a multibillion rupee scam for […]
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ISLAMABAD: Amid continuously aggravating petroleum shortage across the country, the government has decided in principle to “completely deregulate” petrol pricing and marketing and do away with uniform pricing mechanism. The decision comes at a time when oil marketing companies (OMCs) are under criticism for their cartelisation-like behaviour in the case of high octane blending component […]
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