Earlier Coco Gauff sailed through to the third round with a 6-0, 6-0 thumping of Arantxa Rus, while Liudmila Samsonova ousted Naomi Osaka in three sets. Runner-up last year, Swiatek bounced back from her semi-final defeat by Elena Rybakina in Stuttgart with a largely comfortable straight-sets victory. The Pole, a four-time Grand Slam winner and […]
After Meta’s shares fell 16% on Thursday, Elon Musk overtook Mark Zuckerberg to become the third-richest person in the world, according to Business Standard. There has been a $18 billion fall in Zuckerberg’s wealth in the fourth greatest one-day stock drop globally. The CEO of Tesla made $5.8 billion in the interim. Now, Zuckerberg’s worth […]
A statement issued on Thursday stated that Pakistan and the United States had an intersessional meeting in accordance with the Trade and Investment Framework Agreement (TIFA). A wide range of topics were discussed by officials from both countries in an effort to improve their trade and investment ties. The conversation covered a wide range of […]
As he runs for reelection, President Joe Biden achieved a rare bipartisan triumph on Wednesday by signing a hard-fought measure into law that would deliver billions of dollars in additional U.S. help to Ukraine for its conflict with Russia. This puts an end to months of back-and-forth with Republicans in Congress. “It gives vital support […]
The Election Commission of India said on Thursday that it has requested comments from the opposition Congress and the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) about purported election law infractions by Rahul Gandhi and Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The biggest election in history is being held in India across seven phases, with the results expected on […]
Only 105 merchants have registered for the current Tajir Dost Scheme, hence the FBR is considering eliminating the Non-Active Taxpayer List (Non-ATL) and charging outrageous fees of 10–15% for sales to unregistered retailers. Rather than going after the nation’s 3.6 million merchants, the FBR is considering many measures to render non-registered enterprises unviable. The only […]
Recently, the well-known messaging service WhatsApp added a new tab called Meta AI to its UI. This tab has an artificial intelligence chatbot, however not all of its users are fond of this new feature. The AI search bar was introduced to Meta’s social media platforms (which also include Facebook and Instagram) in an attempt […]
The International Monetary Fund said on Wednesday that its executive board would convene on April 29 to deliberate on approving a $1.1 billion lending package for Pakistan. This month’s cash is the final installment of a $3 billion Stand-By Arrangement (SBA) with the IMF, which was obtained by the country last summer in order to […]
Pakistan has unequivocally rejected the contents of the “2023 Country Report on Human Rights Practices,” calling it “unfair, based on inaccurate information and completely divorced from the ground reality,” as the US State Department issued its appraisal of the human rights situation per country. Foreign Office (FO) spokesman Mumtaz Zahra Baloch said in a statement […]
Nawaz Sharif, the leader of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), paid a visit to Hazrat Saad ibn Abi Waqqas’ (RA) mausoleum on Thursday in Guangzhou, the capital and largest city of Guangdong province in southern China. While on a week-long personal vacation to China, the former prime minister performed Fateha at the sacred tomb of […]
