Pakistan’s emerging batter Sameer Minhas has credited street cricket, family support, structured age-group programmes and a fearless mindset for shaping his development as a cricketer. “My journey began with street cricket and playing at home with my brother. My father later enrolled us at an academy and that is where my serious cricketing journey started,” Sameer recalled in the…
Today, Anthropic released Claude Opus 5. It replaces Claude Opus 4.8 as the Opus-tier flagship. Pricing is unchanged at $5 per million input tokens and $25 per million output tokens. The Anthropic team positions Opus 5 as approaching the intelligence of Claude Fable 5 at half the price. It is now the default model on…
Hundreds of people are out of their homes due to huge wildfires burning across British Columbia. Thousands more are on evacuation alert as wildfire crews battle the flames from the ground and the air. In the Boston Bar area, the Brunswick Complex continues to burn. It is made up of the Ainslie Creek, the Brunswick…
A terrorist attack on a joint police checkpost in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Tank district martyred 15 people, including 14 security personnel, the military’s media wing said on Friday. Among those martyred are 12 soldiers, two policemen and a government official. Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said in a statement that the attack took place early on Friday…
International coach trains 15 young talents as K-P Tennis Association aims to nurture future champions PESHAWAR: The Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Tennis Association has launched a comprehensive junior tennis camp at the Peshawar Sports Complex, hiring international coach Inam Gul to impart advanced techniques to budding players. Around 15 youngsters aged five to 14 are undergoing rigorous training…
Vietnam is weighing the most unusual version yet of the youth social media bans that are sweeping the globe. Instead of kicking kids off platforms entirely, the country wants to let them stay logged in — just muted. Under a draft decree from Vietnam’s Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, reported on Friday by Reuters,…
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The family of a boy who drowned near Nutimik Lake in 2023 is calling for change after two brothers drowned in the same spot late last weekend. Danish Habib is the father of Usaid Habib, a 12-year-old boy who drowned at Sturgeon Falls near Nutimik Lake in 2023 after being pulled into the rapids while his family was…
Britain’s NatWest helped fund London-based consumer credit firm Amplifi Capital with up to £250 million ($333 million) in the years before it collapsed last month, company filings show, as regulators caution banks over such lending. Amplifi, which had £119 million in total assets according to its last-filed accounts for the year ended March 2024, specialized…
A general view of the SEC Armadillo ahead of the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow. Photo: AFP LONDON: King Charles III officially opened the 23rd Commonwealth Games in Glasgow on Thursday to launch 10 days in a slimmed down event designed to control costs. Around 3,000 athletes from 74 nations and territories will compete for 215…
