Dubai: Hours ahead of the high octane India-Pakistan Cricket World Cup game, Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has advised the Pakistan cricket captain to bat first – unless the pitch is damp. ### In a series of tweets, Imran Khan who led the Pakistan team to World Cup glory in 1992, gave the now captain, Sarfraz Ahmad,…
Santa Ponsa, Mallorca: Maria Sharapova says she will draw inspiration from Rafael Nadal’s incredible powers of recovery as she resumes her injury-hit career on the Spanish great’s island next week. ### The 32-year-old Russian has not played a competitive match since pulling out of the St Petersburg Open in January and underwent surgery on her…
Manila: Filipino public school teachers, considered second-class citizens among Philippine government workers, are weighed down by huge debts, a fact acknowledged by the education department. ### Data from the Philippines’ Department of Education (DepEd) show Filipino teachers now owe a total debt of at least Php319 billion ($6.38 billion) to both public and private lenders…
Salvador: Lionel Messi has regretted Argentina’s loss in their Copa America opener against Colombia and said that the team must take in the positive aspects of the match and guaranteed that there would be many chances to qualify for the quarter-finals. ### “It will take us a while to assimilate this defeat and accept it,”…
### New Delhi: The UAE Ambassador to India, Dr. Ahmad Abdulrahman Al Banna, has met with India’s new Minister for Civil Aviation, Hardeep Singh Puri, and discussed pressing issues relating to cooperation between the two countries in civil aviation. Click Here: Sports Water Bottle Accessories### This was the first face-to-face interaction from the UAE side…
Sonia Gandhi was the longest serving president of the Congress party, and a rare politician who seemed to actually want to retire. She handed over the baton to son Rahul Gandhi in December 2017. ### Rahul Gandhi’s serial flop show has seen the 72-year-old Sonia Gandhi end her semi-retirement and make a return to full-time…
Dubai: The National Centre of Meteorology (NCM) is monitoring tropical storm Vayu off the Arabian Sea that is predicted to weaken by Tuesday and is not expected to have “direct effect” on the UAE. ### NCM issued the advisory as tropical storm Vayu, which developed near the Indian coast last week, moved westward towards the…
Authorities say a father died while trying to save his 3-year-old child who fell from a bridge into a northwestern Minnesota lake. ### The Becker County sheriff’s office says Christopher Franklin Nicholas Schultz jumped into Detroit Lake after his child fell from the bridge at Dead Shot Bay on Saturday evening. ### The sheriff’s office…
Abu Dhabi: Now individuals in the UAE can shoot videos and take photographs using drones in “permitted locations and at heights specified by the local authorities”, top officials from the Ministry of Interior and General Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) announced in Abu Dhabi on Sunday. ### The use of drones for such purposes can be…