Heatstroke has killed 61 people in Thailand so far this year, more than in all of 2023, the health ministry said on Friday after weeks of scorching weather across the region. A wave of exceptionally hot weather blasted Thailand in recent weeks, prompting authorities to issue warnings about scorching hot weather on a near-daily basis. The health ministry said Friday that 61 people have died from heatstroke since the beginning of 2024, compared with 37 in the whole of 2023. Thailand’s northeast — the agricultural heartland — saw the highest number of deaths, the ministry said. Scientists have long warned…
Author: Hasnain Abid Khanzada
The Pakistan hockey team was given a hero’s welcome on their arrival in Lahore on Sunday following their silver medal finish at the Sultan Azlan Shah Cup, where they narrowly lost in the final to a defensively stoic Japanese side on penalties. Pakistan remained unbeaten en route to the final but were left ruing their missed opportunities in the final where Japan came from behind and floored them in a penalty shootout. Japan had taken an early lead but Roelant Oltmans’ side came back strongly with two goals in three minutes, only to relinquish their advantage before falling apart in the shootout.…
Arsenal kept their Premier League title dreams alive by ending an Old Trafford hoodoo to grind out a 1-0 win at Manchester United on Sunday to move back top of the table. Leandro Trossard scored the only goal in 20 minutes as Arsenal won for just the second time in 17 games away at United to go a point clear at the summit. Manchester City still have the destiny of the title in their own hands as the defending champions have two matches left to Arsenal’s one. However, the Gunners kept the pressure on Pep Guardiola’s men ahead…
LE MANS: MotoGP championship leader Jorge Martin of Pramac Racing won the French Grand Prix on Sunday to complete a weekend double while Gresini Ducati’s Marc Marquez finished second with a final-lap overtake of reigning champion Francesco Bagnaia at Le Mans. Bagnaia led for most of the race before pole sitter Martin regained the lead and powered to victory following an intense battle while Marquez, who started 13th on the grid, finished on the podium once again after Saturday’s sprint. Martin’s victory, after his sprint win, moved him up to 129 points while Bagnaia is second, 38 points behind. Marquez’s…
DHAKA: Sikandar Raza and Brian Bennett hit half-centuries as Zimbabwe secured an eight-wicket consolation victory over Bangladesh in the final Twenty20 International in Dhaka on Sunday to avoid a 5-0 whitewash. Captain Raza hit an unbeaten 72 off 46 to guide Zimbabwe to 158-2 after they restricted Bangladesh, who won the first four matches of the series, to 157-6. Bennett struck 70 off 49 balls after picking up 2-20 with the ball at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium. Zimbabwe lost opener Tadiwanashe Marumani for one, but Bennett and Raza added 75 runs for the second wicket to put the visitors firmly…
DUBLIN: Belligerent half-centuries by Fakhar Zaman and Mohammad Rizwan steered Pakistan to a series-levelling seven-wicket victory over Ireland in the second T20 International here at Castle Avenue on Sunday. Chasing a testing 194, the tourists came home in just 16.5 overs as Fakhar and Rizwan — named player-of-the-match — combined for a match-winning partnership, with some luck, to help their team square the three-match series 1-1. The way Azam Khan’s three sixes off fast bowler Mark Adair sealed the match signified Pakistan’s batting approach in the high-scoring game. The tourists experienced early jolts losing opener Saim Ayub (six) and captain Babar Azam…
HYDERABAD: Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah has ruled out any change in the National Finance Commission (NFC) Award, saying neither the federal government nor any other official has discussed any such amendment. He made these remarks while talking to reporters at the Hyderabad Press Club on Sunday. When asked about reports of an IMF suggestion to renegotiate the resource distribution formula among provinces, Mr Shah said he only heard about this in the media. “I have seen it only in the media because nobody has talked to me regarding any rethink of the NFC resource distribution formula.” Urges media to ‘not glorify’ bandits;…
ISLAMABAD: As unaffordable power supplies affect demand and push consumers out of the national grid, question marks are being raised over the procurement of imported coal for power plants in the long term despite the government’s and the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) overall policy direction for localisation and import substitution. The power plants are getting into long-term coal import — a market where liquidity and availability are in plenty — after the National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (Nepra) streamlined spot imports through procurement guidelines, causing coal prices to tumble by almost half. While feeling delinquency, former caretaker power minister Muhammad…
Bullish momentum continued at the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) on Monday as shares gained more than 700 points. The benchmark KSE-100 index was up by 788.56 points, or 1.08 per cent, at 1:55pm, reaching 73,874.06 points from the previous close of 73,085.50 points. Finally, the index closed at 73,799.1, up by 713.61 points from the previous close. During intraday trade, the benchmark index breached the 74,000 barrier, touching 74,114.22, before dropping back below within an hour. Speaking to Dawn.com, Tahir Abbas, head of research at Arif Habib Limited, said the market was gaining momentum as inflation was “anticipated to decline significantly…
TORONTO: The season’s first major wildfire continued to burn across Western Canada as firefighters tamed the fast-spreading blaze while authorities evacuated a town in British Columbia and advised residents of an oil hub in Alberta to prepare to leave. Alberta said the wildfire was extreme and out of control, located 16 km (9.94 miles) southwest of Fort McMurray and spread across 1,992 hectares (4922.34 acres) of land, nearly double what was reported earlier. In British Columbia, thousands of residents in Northern Rockies Regional Municipality and Fort Nelson First Nations were asked to evacuate as the blaze spread in size to…
