Covert Report Baltimore Ravens cornerback Marlon Humphrey can order all the pizzas he wants for himself, and his teammates too. His dad probably isn’t going to be happy about it though.In a news conference after Humphrey signed a $98.75 million extension with the Ravens, making him the second-highest paid cornerback in the NFL, he said […]
Read MoreCovert Report Rafael Nadal is wearing the ‘most expensive watch ever worn on a tennis court’ at this year’s French Open.The world No2, 34, received a brand-new custom timepiece from his sponsors at luxury watchmakers Richard Mille worth a staggering £780,000.The watch, with “RAFA” embossed on the side, has a black case and face with […]
Read MoreStaff Writer Islamabad: The Executive Committee of National Economic Council (ECNEC) last week approved projects in various sectors worth of over Rs 440 billion.The meeting of the committee was held here with Adviser to the Prime Minister on Finance and Revenue Dr Abdul Hafeez Shaikh in chair. The committee considered and approved the “Simplification of […]
Read MoreStaff Writer Islamabad: The National Assembly Standing Committee on Privatization was briefed last week on the privatization process of Heavy Electrical Complex (HEC) and also way forward for bidding and marketing finalization.The Director General, Privatization Division gave detailed briefing on Heavy Electrical Complex; he informed that Heavy Electrical Complex (HEC) is a subsidiary of State […]
Read MoreIslamabad: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) returned to the US dollar bond market with the pricing of a 3-year global benchmark bond worth $3 billion and a 10-year global benchmark bond worth $1 billion, proceeds of which will be part of ADB’s ordinary capital resources.“We are pleased with the consistently reliable and strong support of […]
Read MoreIslamabad: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has imposed another strict condition on Pakistan to continue its loan program and demanded that the subsidy of utility stores including electricity and gas be abolished.The IMF has demanded an end to subsidies for utility stores, including electricity and gas, and set up a special cell in the finance […]
Read MoreIslamabad : The World Bank has approved $ 450 million for Pakistan, which will be spent on hydropower and renewable energy projects in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The Bank says that by working on these projects, the cost of power generation will be reduced and reliance on expensive imported fuel will also be curtailed. The funds were […]
Read MoreIslamabad: The 3rd meeting of National e-Commerce Council (NeCC) has included the project “kickoff” between National Institutional Facilitation Technologies (NIFT) and Checkout.com for bringing international payment methods to Pakistan.The implementation will enable both organizations to provide payment services through each others infrastructure and pursue commercial opportunities as a partnership, said a press release issued by […]
Read MoreAn Baijie Beijing: Chinese President Xi Jinping has made it loud and clear that no single country can dictate terms.No country should be allowed to do whatever it likes and be the hegemon or bully, Xi said. “Unilateralism is a dead end,” he said.In a video speech delivered at a high-level meeting in honour of […]
Read MoreJonathan Easley Washington: Democratic nominee Joe Biden leads President Trump by 10 points nationally in a pair of new polls.The latest Marquette University survey finds Biden at 50 percent, compared with 40 percent for Trump.The president’s job approval rating sits at 41 percent positive and 58 percent negative. Fifty-one percent approve of Trump’s handling of […]
Read MoreNewswire Islamabad: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) chief Bilawal Bhutto Zardari turned 32 last week with his eyes set on the Prime Minister’s slot.Bilawal Bhutto Zardari was born in Karachi on September 21, 1988. He was hardly 19 when he inherited a role in a dynasty whose history is steeped in power and bloodshed. He is […]
Read MoreFormer World No. 1 Maria Sharapova spoke about her diet and cooking skills in a recent interview with the Porsche.The five-time Grand Slam singles champion Sharapova, who is a Porsche Brand Ambassador, says: “What you put into your body is always going to be extremely important. There are many lessons I have taken away from […]
Read MoreChina Economic Net Islamabad: China–Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC)’s Special Economic Zones (SEZs) are a lifetime opportunity for the Pakistani companies and the people as they will provide regular business and job openings.The SEZs with new business models are likely to generate reasonable jobs, develop industrial and business infrastructures and establish domestic value chains connected regionally […]
Read MoreGwadar Pro Islamabad: Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan wants to take Pakistan-China ties to new heights as he is into the third year of his five-year term, close aides said.Government officials working closely with the PM told Gwadar Pro that China was the top priority for the premier and he regularly directs all the aides […]
Read MoreFerdinando Giuglian Rome: Italy was a symbol of the first wave of the pandemic. It was the first country in the world to go into a national lockdown, as its hospitals — especially in cities such as Bergamo and Cremona in the north — struggled to cope with the spike of cases and there was […]
Read MoreIslamabad: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) stalwart Senator Rehman Malik believes Bilawal Bhutto Zardari will be the next Prime Minister of the country.Senator Malik, the Chairman Senate Standing Committee on Interior, congratulated and extended best wishes to Bilawal Bhutto Zardari on his 32 birthday last week and felicitated the workers on this occasion of happiness. Speaking […]
Read MoreNewswire Islamabad: Boiling oceans and searing air temperatures will render our planet uninhabitable in the distant future, University of East Anglia scientists claimed.We do at least have time to book our tickets to Mars or any of the other 1,000 “suitable” planets detected so far, according to Andrew Rushby of the University of East Anglia […]
Read MoreIslamabad: For decades scientists have believed that galaxy mergers usually result in the formation of elliptical galaxies. Now, for the first time, researchers using ALMA and a host of other radio telescopes have found direct evidence that merging galaxies can instead form disc galaxies, and that this outcome is in fact quite common. This surprising […]
Read MoreNewswire Moscow: Post-registration phase of clinical trials of the Sputnik V vaccine against the coronavirus which has been launched recently should be completed by the middle of next summer.After that it will be possible to continue the study of the vaccine in children, Director of the Gamaleya National Research Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology of […]
Read MoreLondon: James Anderson has entered a league of his own as he became the first fast bowler in the history of the game to take 600 wickets in Test cricket. The English pacer joined a trio of retired spinners – Sri Lanka’s Muttiah Muralitharan (800), Australia’s Shane Warne (708) and India’s Anil Kumble (619) – […]
Read MoreWang Wen – Global Times US President Donald Trump said that he had approved “in concept” a deal in which Oracle and Walmart would partner with TikTok in the US. This means his previous suppression of TikTok has failed. It also means that after Huawei, another Chinese company going global has wisely been able to […]
Read MoreZhong Sheng – People’s Daily Though some US politicians are trying everything to contain the country’s development and hinder the exchanges between China and the US, China still chooses to stand on the right side of history, responding with calmness, composure and confidence.China, facing the world and future, is determined to walk along the road […]
Read MoreArtyom Shraibman Last month’s presidential election in Belarus was expected to end with one clear victor: Russia. As Belarusian society grew sharply politicized over the summer, President Alexander Lukashenko ramped up the repression. This culminated in the brutal breakup of protests immediately after the vote, setting back Lukashenko’s budding relationship with the West many years.This […]
Read MoreAbdul Basit The eight-member Shanghai Cooperation Organization, established in 2001, may atrophy in the years to come like the South Asian Organization for Cooperation (SAARC) and the Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO).My fundamental argument is that regional or transregional organizations in most cases fail to deliver if bilateral relations of its key member states remain rickety […]
Read MoreLondon: After 12 years at the ECB, Andy Flower left the organisation in October 2019, and since then has become a familiar face in the world of franchise cricket.He has enjoyed early success, too: his Maratha Arabians side won the Abu Dhabi T10, he took St Lucia Zouks to the CPL final earlier in September, […]
Read MoreBrad Crawford Wrestling superstar Joe Laurinaitis, better known as Road Warrior Animal, has died at age 60, according to the WWE. The WWE Hall of Famer was part of ‘The Road Warriors’, who were known as The Legion of Doom. Laurinaitis helped win a pair of World Tag Team Titles and was later inducted into […]
Read MoreMumbai: Dean Jones, the former Australia batsman, died of a heart attack aged 59 on September 24.Jones was in Mumbai as part of the commentary team at Star Sports for IPL 2020 when he passed away. ICC Chief Executive Manu Sawhney said: “We are extremely sad to hear of Dean’s sudden death and I would […]
Read MoreLondon: Prince William has a “new sense of purpose” in protecting the planet now he has children. The 38-year-old royal – who has Prince George, seven, Princess Charlotte, five, and two year-old Prince Louis with wife Duchess Catherine – has “always loved nature” but his family has given him added drive to do what he […]
Read MoreNewswire Kabul: Ambassador Stefano Pontecorvo, the Senior Civilian Representative of NATO to Afghanistan, is confident about peace in Afghanistan.In an interview in Kabul, the veteran diplomat said reaching peace was not easy after forty years of conflict in Afghanistan but big progress had been made. Following are the excerpts from the interview:Question: We are very […]
Read MoreKuala Lumpur: Malaysia has won the “Health and Medical Tourism: Destination of the Year” title for the fourth time.Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah dedicated the win, which was announced at the 2020 Medical Tourism Award ceremony in London last week, to all the stakeholders in Malaysia’s healthcare sector.“Once again my heartiest congratulations […]
Read MoreTom Schiller Tokyo: When you think of Japanese cooking, chances are you may not think of citrus. But Japan produces some of the most diverse varieties of citrus in the world, and, after salt, the acidic juice from sour citrus is the single most important seasoning in the Japanese pantry.It finds its way into condiments […]
Read MorePeshawar: British High Commissioner Dr Christian Turner visited Peshawar last week to see how UK aid has been working closely with the provincial government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to transform lives.On his first visit, he met Ministers, parliamentarians, and development experts – discussing how the UK will continue a commitment which has already lasted more than […]
Read MoreAmbassador Stefano Pontecorvo This is a historic moment for Afghanistan as Afghans prepare to determine the future of their country through intra-Afghan negotiations. The Afghan people and the world are watching with hope and expectation that, after decades of conflict, peace is within reach. The path to peace was never going to be easy. We […]
Read MoreNikolay Mezhevich In the future, the leading position in Belarus may be taken by those groups that are absolutely indifferent to the ideas of national revival, and which are focused on economic, political and military integration with the West.Today’s clash of “red-greens” with “white-red-whites” is beneficial to them. The third force, positioning itself as a […]
Read MoreWang Wen – Global Times After I finished my research in East China’s Fujian Province, a local official of Ningde gave me a book titled Up and out of Poverty, a compilation of Xi Jinping’s major works from September 1988 to May 1990 while he worked in the city.Now, Ningde has completely been lifted out […]
Read MoreProfessor Dr Mohd Tajuddin Mohd Rasdi On the eve of the historic date marking the formation of Malaysia, I want to share the story of a man who, to me, was a quintessential example of that generation of Malaysians who grew up before Sept 16,1963.This is history that today’s younger generation needs to know – […]
Read MoreRick Newman Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden has led President Trump in the polls for months, and Trump continues to slump. The new Bob Woodward book casts Trump as a two-faced charlatan lying to the public about the risks of the coronavirus. Congress is punting on another coronavirus stimulus bill, leaving millions of struggling workers […]
Read MoreCovert Report Inbound tourism to Japan had climbed to unprecedented levels until the coronavirus brought everything to a screeching halt. Since April, the number of foreign visitors to the country has plummeted an incredible 99.9% as the government rolled out a broad travel ban to prevent the introduction of COVID-19 from overseas. Although the border […]
Read MoreAlexandra Witze The notice went out on 6 March, a Friday afternoon. All classes at the University of Washington in Seattle — the city then the US epicentre of the outbreak of COVID-19 — would shift online the following Monday. Instructors scrambled to set up remote learning options for more than 40,000 students. “It became […]
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