PARIS: British swimmers Tully Kearney and Maisie Summers-Newton stormed to gold medals on the second day of competition at the Paralympics in Paris on Friday. Kearney and Summers-Newton’s efforts brought Britain level with Paralympic heavyweights China in the overall medals table on six golds. Kearney, 27, who was born with cerebral palsy, defended her title in the 100m freestyle S5, less than 24 hours after also winning the 200m freestyle. Summers-Newton, who was born with achondroplasia; a condition that affects how bones develop, also held on to her title from the Tokyo Paralympics three years ago but in the women’s…
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MONACO: Manchester United will travel to Turkey to face Jose Mourinho’s Fenerbahce among their eight games in the league phase of the new-look 36-team Europa League after the draw was made on Friday. Two Premier League teams have made it to the competition this year, Tottenham Hotspur after finishing fifth and United through their FA Cup victory. Mourinho, who steered Manchester United to a Europa League triumph in 2017 with a 2-0 final victory over Ajax, is poised for a reunion with his former club, where he served as the manager from 2016 to 2018. He recently became coach of…
MANCHESTER: Liverpool boss Arne Slot faces his first major test with a trip to Manchester United on Sunday, while two of the four sides still with a perfect record meet at the Emirates as Arsenal host Brighton and Hove Albion on Saturday. Newcastle United and Tottenham Hotspur also face off on Sunday hoping to dispel early-season doubts over their credentials for a top-four finish. Slot has made a perfect start to the daunting task of succeeding Jurgen Klopp with two wins from his opening two Premier League games without conceding. His first chance to seriously impress the Liverpool support comes at one…
Pakistan were 99-1 at lunch on the second day of the second Test against Bangladesh Saturday as they went in search of a series-leveling win in Rawalpindi. Having lost the first Test by ten wickets, Pakistan received an early jolt when Abdullah Shafique was dismissed in the first over for nought after being sent in. But skipper Shan Masood was unbeaten on 53 for his tenth Test half-century and Saim Ayub was on 43 — having added 99 for a sedate second wicket stand. After the first day’s play was washed out on Friday due to rain, Pakistan shone under a bright…
Novak Djokovic’s latest bid for a record 25th Grand Slam title crashed to a halt on Friday as 28th-ranked Alexei Popyrin knocked the defending champion out of the US Open third round. One day after third seed Carlos Alcaraz slumped to a shock defeat against 74th-ranked Botic van de Zandschulp, 25-year-old Popyrin robbed the tournament of another superstar with a 6-4, 6-4, 2-6, 6-4 victory. Popyrin handed Djokovic his earliest US Open exit in 18 years and his earliest Grand Slam exit since he fell in the second round of the Australian Open in 2017 — which was also the last year the Serbian…
ISLAMABAD: Commerce Minister Jam Kamal Khan has stressed the need for strategic reforms and government support to elevate the engineering industry to compete globally. The minister said this in a meeting with the Sectoral Council for Engineering on Friday. The commerce minister has started virtual meetings with the sectoral councils to identify areas for further improvement to enhance exports from the country. An official announcement of the ministry said that Mr Kamal highlighted the increasing pace of technological advancements worldwide, noting the shift towards robotic machines, and underscored the government’s readiness to provide financial support to guide the industry onto…
ISLAMABAD: Short-term inflation, measured by the Sensitive Price Index (SPI), slowed to 15.34 per cent year-on-year in the week ending August 29 due to a decline in the prices of vegetables and pulses, official data showed on Friday. It fell by 0.62pc week-on-week. The inflation declined due to a price drop in key vegetables and last year’s high base effect. According to experts, the government has approved sugar exports, which push up domestic retail prices for consumers. The national average price for sugar is Rs160 per kilogramme. In March, the decline in SPI came after a consistent 11-week period of inflation above 40pc, which…
ISLAMABAD: Like three previous governments, the coalition government led by the PML-N on Friday approved a revival plan for the long-awaited Main Line-1 (ML-1) railway project likely to be executed in collaboration with China this year. A cabinet meeting, presided over by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, approved the plan to initiate negotiations on the Financial Commitment Agreement between China and Pakistan Railways for the upgradation of ML-1 project, a crucial component of CPEC, according to the Prime Minister’s Office. Similar plans had earlier got approval of the PML-N government headed by ex-PM Nawaz Sharif, PTI government led by Imran Khan and PDM regime headed…
ISLAMABAD: Power Minister Awais Leghari on Friday said a special task force was currently working on finding out fault lines with the independent power producers (IPPs) for mutual and amicable corrections, but the government could not and would not take any adverse actions unilaterally. Giving a policy statement before the Senate standing committee on power, presided over by PTI Senator Mohsin Aziz, the minister announced that given the unaffordable tariffs, he had also ordered the reassessment of estimated tariffs of upcoming projects like Diamer-Bhasha, Chashma Nuclear’s C-5 to conclude if they had rightly been committed for next 10-year planning in…
KARACHI: An international survey conducted by Ipsos has suggested that only one in 10 Pakistanis believe the country is headed in the right direction. The survey, released on Friday, indicates that the rural population is more optimistic than urban residents. According to the survey, optimism has significantly decreased, dropping from 18 per cent in the second quarter to 11pc in the third quarter, bringing it back to levels seen earlier this year. “Economic problems continue to top the list of worrying issues for Pakistanis despite some improvement,” the report said. People are increasingly worried about rising electricity prices and taxes, it added. Since…
