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Lahore, Aug 3 (IANS) Former Pakistan wicketkeeper and Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman Ijaz Butt passed away, here on Thursday. He was 85. Born in Sialkot on 10 March 1938, Ijaz featured in eight Tests for Pakistan from 1959 to 1962. He remained PCB chairman from 2008 to 2011 and during his tenure Pakistan cricket team won the ICC T20 World Cup in 2009.The PCB through its chairman and members of the management committee, board executives and employees expressed its grief and sorrow over the demise of the former Test cricketer.”On behalf of the PCB, I want to express my…

New Delhi, Aug 3 (IANS) Meta’s launch of Twitter rival Threads(.net) has seen traffic to a Slack competitor, also named Threads(.com), exploded by 12,148 per cent, from 88,011 monthly visits to over 10 million in two weeks, a new report said on Thursday.According to the small business advice company Venture Smarter, Threads, the work app, has grown more than 10x in global site rankings, moving closer to the top 5,000.Sharing a name with the latest social network has caused Threads(.com) to skyrocket in global website ranking from 5,45,741st to 5,813th in just two weeks.The US site rankings also saw a…

New Delhi, Aug 3 (IANS) As the government announced restrictions on import of laptops, personal computers, and other electronics items to boost local manufacturing, the India Cellular and Electronics Association (ICEA) said on Thursday that there will be no disruptions in supply chain because of the new notification.The notification issued by the Directorate General of Foreign Trade (DGFT) under the Commerce Ministry notified restrictions on import of laptops, tablets, personal computers and servers.ICEA Chairman Pankaj Mohindroo told IANS that “We assure the industry and trade that there will be no disruptions in supply chain because of this notification”. “Above all,…

As per the cause list published on the apex court website, a bench of Justices B.R. Gavai, P.S. Narasimha, and Prashant Kumar Mishra will continue to hear Gandhi’s plea.The Supreme Court on July 21 agreed to examine the special leave petition filed by the Congress leader and issued notice on the question as to whether his conviction should be suspended pending appeal.Declining to pass any interim relief on Gandhi’s plea without hearing the both sides, it had granted a 10-days period to complainant BJP MLA Purnesh Modi and others to file written submissions and posted the matter for further hearing…

The fire tenders were rushed to the spot and the fire was extinguished.The fire department official has said that gas was being stolen illegally from the IGL pipeline, due to which the gas was leaking and it caught the fire.IGL officials were not aware of this theft. They have been informed about the incident and the gas supply has been stopped. However, a bike has been gutted in the fire.According to the information received from Pradeep Kumar, Chief Fire Officer (CFO), Gautam Budh Nagar, the fire department received information at 2:58 p.m. on Thursday that IGL’s pipeline has burst in…

The deceased were identified as Kuppuraj, 19, Jagadeesh, 15, and Choudhary, 14.Police said that a group of people from Kongalamman colony in Erode had gone to Maduraveeran temple on the river bank and the three youths entered the river and were washed away in the currents.Local people tried to save the boys but could not and fire and rescue services and Kodumudy police were called.The bodies of two of the teens were recovered and the search is on for the third.–IANS aal/vd

For India, batter Tilak Verma and right-arm seamer Mukesh are making their T20I debut.After winning the toss, Windies captain Powel said: “Looks like a dry surface. India are playing a lot of spinners, let’s see how we cope against them. The guys are confident. It’s not a complete change in strategy. We are still boundary hitters, we are trying to run hard. We have gone with our strengths.”On the other hand, India skipper Hardik Pandya said: “The plan for this tour was to play a team while looking ahead to next year’s T20 World Cup. Some players might get a…

Post the robotic-assisted surgery, the patient also experienced a swift recovery and was discharged from the hospital within a day, without any complications, said doctors at Fortis Hospital, Shalimar Bagh.The patient had initially undergone a laparoscopy for gallbladder removal at a private hospital in Delhi/NCR, however, the surgery had to be abandoned as the gallbladder was severely stuck to the surrounding small and large intestines, as well as the bile duct.Despite consulting with several other surgeons in many hospitals in Delhi-NCR over a period of 8-9 months, the patient was repeatedly refused laparoscopic surgery due to the complexity of the…

A bench of Justice Navin Chawla, while advancing a matrimonial case scheduled for October 18 to August 8, said that long adjournments are unnecessary, especially given the volume of pending matrimonial cases. With nearly 4,000 matrimonial cases awaiting resolution, the court urged a warranted approach to the proceedings involving court counsellors. “Even though the order records that there are approximately 4,000 matrimonial cases of various nature pending before the learned Family Court, such a long adjournment is still not warranted,” the judge said, adding that the court has to keep a watch on the petition/counseling proceedings that take place before…

The 65 year old actor was more popular on the small screen, but he also acted in Malayalam films in supporting roles.He was suffering from ill-health and had been in and out of hospitals for a while.The last rites would be held on Friday.–IANSsg/kvd