The International Monetary Fund (IMF) said that Pakistan followed all the required rules to receive its latest loan instalment. On May 9, the IMF’s Executive Board completed its review and allowed a payment of $1 billion (around Rs 8,500 crore) to Pakistan. The fund is part of a support package under the Extended Fund Facility…
This is a representational image NEW DELHI: MCD’s status report for desilting of drains reveals that the civic body completed only 21.3% of the work by April 25. With the initial deadline for finishing the work set for May 31, the progress so far appears insufficient.Of the target of 1.3 lakh metric tonnes to be…
Gladiators battled lions and other wild animals in the arenas of the Roman Empire. But for all the tales of glorious combat depicted in ancient texts, marble reliefs and mosaics and then retold in movies and other modern media, archaeologists have never found direct physical evidence, like the skeletons of gladiators bearing animal-induced wounds. At…
Comedian Bill Maher is no stranger to roasting President Donald Trump on his HBO show “Real Time With Bill Maher,” but after a private dinner with him on March 31, he is questioning whether the man he met is the same one behind the podiums and Twitter rants. Maher, who finally opened up about the…
An American YouTuber known for his reckless travel exploits has been arrested after attempting to make contact with one of the world’s most isolated tribes on North Sentinel Island, part of India’s Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Mykhailo Viktorovych Polyakov, 24, who has previously visited Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, was detained after he illegally entered the prohibited territory…
New Zealand and India will meet in the final of the 2025 Champions Trophy in Dubai on Sunday. (AP) India and New Zealand are preparing to meet in their first white-ball cricket tournament final in 25 years. New Zealand earned their spot after defeating South Africa in the Champions Trophy 2025 semi-final in Lahore.The Black…
Andrew Tate rose to fame on a message of forceful masculinity that positioned men as rightful dominators over women. From his base in Romania, he promised to help guide men through “the Matrix,” his conspiratorial term for a world that he says unfairly demonizes men, and called the criminal accusations against him evidence of persecution….
Trump said he trusted Putin to keep a Ukraine peace deal President Trump met with Prime Minister Keir Starmer of Britain in Washington yesterday. While sitting beside the British leader in the Oval Office, Trump said repeatedly that he believed that Vladimir Putin, Russia’s leader, would not violate the terms of whatever peace deal might…
President Trump met this week with the PGA Tour commissioner, the tour said on Thursday, as the Justice Department considers whether to approve a venture between the United States’ premier golf circuit and one backed by Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund. The meeting at the White House on Tuesday was an unusual foray for an…
MAKING IT COUNT: With his swashbuckling century, Abhishek Sharma has made everyone sit up and take notice. (BCCI Photo) How India T20 opener Abhishek Sharma – who scored a blazing 54-ball 135 against England at Wankhede Stadium on Sunday – found his zoneMUMBAI: Nairobi. 1996. Afridi. 37-ball 100. Whenever you thought about fast tons, only…