Federal Minister for Maritime Affairs Muhammad Junaid Anwar Chaudhry on Saturday said maritime sector posted a record Rs100 billion ($360 million) profit in 2025 after a year of sweeping reforms that improved port efficiency, cut costs and cleared long-delayed policies aimed at positioning the country as a regional trade and logistics hub. Junaid Anwar Chaudhry, […]
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Babar Azam creates history, becomes T20I cricket’s run machine
Pakistan’s Babar Azam made history on Friday as he overtook India’s Rohit Sharma to become the highest run-scorer in men’s T20 Internationals. The record-breaking moment came during Pakistan’s commanding nine-wicket victory over South Africa in Lahore. Babar reached the milestone with a precise drive off spinner Donovan Ferreira to long-off, ending the innings unbeaten on […]
UN predicts that the next five years will be the warmest on record
The United Nations warned on Wednesday that the five-year period 2023-2027 will almost certainly be the warmest ever recorded, as greenhouse gases and El Nino combine to drive temperatures skyrocketing. There is a two-thirds chance that at least one of the next five years will see global temperatures exceed the more ambitious target set out […]
Hackers leak Australian health records on dark web
Hackers have followed through on a threat to leak sensitive medical records stolen from a major Australian health company that counts the country’s prime minister among nearly 10 million customers. Medibank told investors that a “sample” selection of customer data was posted on a “dark web forum” on Wednesday after it refused to pay a […]
Pharmaceutical products export increase record 28.38%
ISLAMABAD: The export of pharmaceutical products, as compared to the last year, rose to 28.38 percent during the first 10 months of FY 2020-21. According the data released by the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics, during the period from July-April 20-21, the pharma products worth $226,593 thousand exported as compared to worth $176,497 thousand of same […]
Cocaine production hit new record in 2017: UN report
Global cocaine production reached an all-time high in 2017, breaking the previous year’s record by 25 percent, the UN drugs and crime agency said Wednesday in its annual report, as production soars in post-conflict Colombia. New remote fields and criminal gangs boosted production in the world’s top supplier, despite efforts to steer rural communities away […]
Australia’s Turner registers dubious duck record
NEW DELHI: Australia all-rounder Ashton Turner became the first batsman to register five straight ducks in Twenty20 cricket after another tame dismissal for Rajasthan Royals in an Indian Premier League (IPL) match on Monday. Turner was dismissed in the first ball that he faced, caught off the bowling of Ishant Sharma, for his third straight […]