KSE-100 index surges over 1,900 points, led by fertiliser, oil & gas and cement sectors A stock broker reacts while monitoring the market on the electronic board displaying share prices during trading session at the Pakistan Stock Exchange, in Karachi on July 3, 2023. Photo: Reuters/ File KARACHI: The Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) enjoyed a…
PA Media Nurses from Darlington Memorial Hospital have taken their NHS bosses to an employment tribunal NHS bosses “penalised” female nurses complaining about a transgender woman using their changing room, an employment tribunal has been told. Eight nurses are challenging a policy which allows the single-sex room at Darlington Memorial Hospital to be used by…
In 2006-07, a 1 percent withholding tax was imposed on commercial imports of gold in the country. Photo: Express News KARACHI: Gold prices in Pakistan rose sharply on Monday, tracking gains in the international market, where the yellow metal surged over 2% to hit a two-week high as weak US economic data bolstered expectations of…
The 2025-26 season is just three weeks old, and there are more than six months until the start of free agency. But the small body of work on the court should not dissuade us from identifying 12 potential free agents who have stood out and what their future could hold with their respective teams. There…
Elizabeth Berkley is so immediately, disarmingly warm in conversation that it takes me a few extra beats to realize she’s kicking her publicist off of our Zoom call. “I think David and I are good,” she says after some preamble. The publicist takes a moment before her off-camera box disappears, and then Berkley continues: “I…
Police officers walk past the Supreme Court of Pakistan building, in Islamabad, Pakistan April 6, 2022. REUTERS ISLAMABAD: With the government pushing to pass the 27th Constitutional Amendment Bill in the National Assembly today (Tuesday), alarm bells are ringing across the judicial community as letters poured into the Supreme Court on Monday, urging a timely…
DHAKA: Attackers in Bangladesh set off seven crude petrol bombs on Monday across the capital Dhaka, including striking a building linked to interim leader Muhammad Yunus, causing no injuries, police said. Dhaka Metropolitan Police said they had arrested a 28-year-old man in connection with “a series” of attacks. Police identified him as a member of…
Tom SymondsNews correspondent Watch: Bodyworn camera shows moment police stop Paul Lipscombe in his Tesla at a KFC drive-through An NHS manager who sexually abused and raped young girls after grooming them on Snapchat has been jailed for 28 years. Paul Lipscombe was sentenced after he admitted to sexual grooming, sexual assault and two counts…
The arrested are accused of crimes ranging from murder to vandalism during a mass uprising in September KATHMANDU: Nepal’s police have arrested 423 people accused of crimes ranging from murder to vandalism during a deadly mass uprising in September that toppled the government, according to police data released on Monday. Suspects also face charges that…
Disney might want to rethink any Poe Dameron plans they’ve got cooking. Oscar Isaac, who portrayed the X-wing fighter pilot in three Star Wars films across the franchise’s sequel trilogy from 2015 to 2019, has hit out at the studio in a new piece for GQ Magazine published Monday. Referencing the Disney-owned ABC pulling Jimmy…
