Serena Williams , the 38-year-old has won her first title since becoming a mother – and immediately donated her $43,000 prize money to Australian bushfire relief. She lifted the trophy at the ASB Classic in Auckland, New Zealand, after defeating fellow American Jessica Pegula. While expressing joy she mentioned that it was really important as it would help her to move towards the next goal.
Pakistan’s first urban vertical farm in Karachi being a commercial venture, supplies the produce to some of the city’s finest restaurants and supermarkets. Sohail Ahmed and his son started working on the urban agriculture project in 2016 after shutting down in 2006 due to worldwide recession and by April 2018, their vertical farm had been set up in the 60 ft. room, and already blooming.
Annie Mary, a Canadian national, has alleged that her Pakistani husband fled the country with thousands of dollars from her bank account. Mary travelled to Pakistan and filed a complaint with the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) Cyber Crime cell in Gujranwala. Fahad Abrar from Sialkot, allegedly deceived her by transferring the 33,000 dollars into the Pakistani bank accounts of his father and uncle.
Senior US diplomat Alice Wells has expressed concerns over the continued detentions and internet shutdown in India Occupied Kashmir (IOK). Wells, the top US diplomat for South Asia, is due to undertake a visit to New Delhi for bilateral talks. “We look forward to a return to normalcy,” said the diplomat in a tweet.
A volley of rockets slammed into an Iraqi airbase north of Baghdad where US forces have been based, wounding four local troops. Eight Katyusha-type rockets landed on Al-Balad airbase, wounding two Iraqi officers and two airmen. Al-Balad is the main airbase for Iraq’s F-16s, which it bought from the US to upgrade its air capacities.
A volcano near the Philippine capital Manila spewed a massive cloud of ash into the sky on Sunday, forcing the precautionary evacuation of thousands of residents. Government seismologists recorded magma moving towards the crater of Taal, one of the country’s most active volcanoes located 65 kilometres south of Manila. According to the chief of the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology Taal’s last eruption was in 1977.
An Afghan national was arrested by officers of the Karachi Company police station in Islamabad for supplying drugs to university students in the capital. Police confiscated more than one kilogramme of heroin and almost 115kg of ice (methamphetamine) from the supplier. The afghan national bought huge amounts of ice powder from Peshawar to supply it to university students, according to SHO Salim Raza.
Flamboyant West Indies batting superstar Chris Gayle has termed Pakistan as “one of the safest places in the world”. He also added that they say you will get presidential security so you are in good hands. The 40-year-old, who is currently playing in the Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) for Chattogram Challengers was replying to a reporters query in Dhaka, who asked him whether Pakistan was a safe country for cricket.
Drinking green tea at least 3 times a week makes you healthier and prolongs your life, as revealed by a recent study carried out at the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences. According to the researchers, green tea has significantly higher proportions of polyphenol, a micronutrient that protects against cardiovascular diseases and lowers blood pressure.
PIA has been slapped with a massive fine for leaving passengers’ luggage in Saudi Arabia. It has been fined 72,000 Saudi Riyals or Rs2.97 million. Saudi Ground Services fined PIA 1,000 Riyal per container of luggage. Most recently, PIA left the luggage for the Islamabad-bound PK-754 and Lahore-bound PK-725 in Riyadh. This isn’t the first time PIA has left its luggage in Saudi Arabia.