HARRIS COUNTY, Texas (KTRK) — A man is dead after an incident that authorities said may have stemmed from road rage in northeast Harris County. Just before 7 p.m. Thursday evening, deputies responded to reports of a drive-by shooting in the 8700 block of the North Sam Houston Parkway East, near Wilson, according to Sheriff Ed Gonzalez. The victim, a man believed to be in his 20s, was found shot to death inside a small, silver sedan, Gonzalez said. @HCSOTexas units are investigating a shooting at the 8700 blk of N. Sam Houston Pkwy E, near Wilson. Units located a male…
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BEIJING: Eagerly waiting to participate in the Beijing Winter Olympics, Pakistan’s skier Mohammad Karim on Wednesday hoped the mega event would be a great success and sought to win medal for the country. The 26-year-old Karim is the only Pakistani skier to have competed in two Winter Olympic Games, (Sochi 2014) and (Pyeongchang 2018). “I have been preparing for Beijing [Games] for three years and my biggest dream is to participate in the Olympics and achieve my best by performing well,” Karim told CRI Urdu. Hailing from Naltar in Gilgit-Baltistan, Karim started skiing at the age of four under the guidance…
PAARL: Captain Temba Bavuma and Rassie van der Dussen scored centuries and shared a partnership of 204 as hosts South Africa beat India by 31 runs in the first One-day International on Wednesday.** The home side elected to bat and posted 296 for four in their 50 overs, with Bavuma’s 110 from 143 balls the anchor to go with an unbeaten 129 not out off 96 from Van der Dussen, who scored his maiden ODI ton. India started well as opener Shikhar Dhawan scored 79 from 84 balls and former captain Virat Kohli 51 from 63, but when they were…
LONDON: English cricket club Yorkshire announced on Wednesday they had appointed former West Indies all-rounder Ottis Gibson as their new head coach on a three-year deal. The 52-year-old replaces Andrew Gale, who left the county club along with the rest of the coaching staff in the fallout from a damaging racism scandal. Pakistan-born former bowler Azeem Rafiq accused Yorkshire of failing to deal adequately with racist abuse he suffered while playing for them and told a parliamentary inquiry that it had ended his career. Sponsors severed links with the county and they were suspended from staging lucrative international matches at Headingley. Gibson,…
WELLINGTON: New Zealand Cricket (NZC) called off an upcoming tour of Australia on Wednesday, 11 days before the scheduled first match, because of strict Covid-19 quarantine requirements. Since the tour was arranged, the New Zealand government has changed its rules for entry into the country because of the threat posed by the Omicron variant. There is now a 10-day mandatory isolation period for all incoming travellers, and Wellington could not guarantee there would be places in quarantine facilities for the team. Although Australia offered to extend the length of the tour so the New Zealand players could return at a…
MELBOURNE: The Australian Cricketers Association is confident that all selected players for the month-long tour of Pakistan would not have any reservations touring the country in March-April this year, the ACA chief executive said on Wednesday. Australia would play three Tests, an equal number of ODIs and a one-off T20 International on the tour beginning with the first Test at the National Stadium in Karachi on March 3. This would be Australia’s maiden tour of Pakistan since 1998 when the Mark Taylor-led side won a three-Test series 1-0. New Zealand had abandoned their limited-overs tour of Pakistan in September last…
The International Cricket Council (ICC) on Thursday announced its ODI team of the year featuring two Pakistani players — Babar Azam and Fakhar Zaman — with the former given the reins to captain the honorary line-up, just as in the T20I eleven. The cricket body had unveiled its T20I team of the year a day ago, naming Azam as its skipper for his “classy best” performance in the format last year, during which he was also the leading run-scorer at the T20 World Cup. He earned the same honours for the 50-over format as well. The 11-member ODI team announced today comprises…
ISLAMABAD: While dismissing an appeal moved by the Federal Bureau of Revenue (FBR) against a high court order, the Supreme Court on Wednesday asked the FBR to act fairly in dealing with taxpayers and to abide by the law governing it. If any benefit accrues to taxpayers under the law, the tax department must not withhold it so that the assessee’s and department’s own time and resources should not be needlessly wasted, observed Justice Qazi Faez Isa in a judgement he wrote. Since frivolous litigation matters waste the time of the tribunal, the high court as well as the apex…
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) on Wednesday released a rebased index of large-scale manufacturing (LSM) industries. However, the PBS did not announce whether the measurement of the LSM sector for November would be released on the new base or the old one. Normally, the PBS released LSM data before the middle of a month. According to the PBS, the number of items has been increased to 123 from 112 in the new index. The new items have been added while obsolete items were removed from the list. The second major change was assigning new weights for a quantum…
