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Egyptian Buy Now, Pay Later platform raises $6 million in seed round

Egyptian

RIYADH: Egyptian Buy Now, Pay Later platform Sympl has raised $6 million in seed funding just five months after it was founded and two months after a soft launch, Arab News reported. The funding round was led by Beco Capital along with A15, and Global Ventures, three of the region’s most established venture capital firms, Sympl said … Read more

Benin opposition leader Reckya Madougou sentenced to 20 years

Benin opposition leader Reckya Madougou sentenced to 20 years

Benin opposition leader and former justice minister Reckya Madougou was sentenced on Saturday to 20 years in prison for terrorism before a special court in the capital Porto-Novo. After more than 20 hours of hearings after she went on trial Friday, Reckya  Madougou, 47, was found guilty of “complicity in terrorist acts” by the Economic … Read more

India logs 7,992 new COVID-19 cases, total tally rises to 34,682,736

India COVID-19 cases

India’s COVID-19 tally rose to 34,682,736 on Saturday, as 7,992 new cases were registered during the past 24 hours across the country, showed the federal health ministry’s latest data. Besides, as many as 393 deaths due to the pandemic since Friday morning took the total death toll to 475,128. There are still 93,277 active COVID-19 … Read more

Saudi Global Ports ink deal to double Riyadh Dry Port capacity

Saudi Global Ports

Saudi Global Ports has agreed a deal to help double Riyadh Dry Port’s handling capacity to 1.5 million containers/annum by 2030, Arab News reported. The Public Investment Fund-backed SGP will work with the Saudi Railway Company to improve connections between the dry port and Dammam Seaport, where it operates the first and second container terminals. SGP will … Read more

PM Imran to announce number of packages for Mianwali today

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ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan will visit Mianwali on Saturday and announce a number of important packages for the city. A stage is being set up before Lari Adda, where the prime minister will address a public gathering. Strict security arrangements have been made around the venue. The Lari Adda area has been vacated and … Read more

Latin America’s largest crypto exchange launches venture capital unit

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RIYADH: Softbank-funded 2TM, owner of the largest cryptocurrency exchange in Latin America, has launched a venture capital unit focusing on blockchain companies around the world, Arab News reported. Brazil-based 2TM, valued at roughly $2.2 billion after the latest $50 million fund-raise, is the holding company of Mercado Bitcoin, with 3.2 million customers as of October 2021. During … Read more

Talha Talib wins first ever medal for Pakistan at World Weightlifting Championship

Talha

Pakistan’s weightlifter and Olympian Talha Talib won the first-ever medal for his country at the World Weightlifting Championship on Friday. He won the bronze medal at the snatch event in the 67kg males category. Despite not being at his best and appearing to be struggling amid niggles, the 22-year-old weightlifter from Gujranwala managed to make … Read more

Root says beaten England must not feel sorry for themselves

Root

BRISBANE: England captain Joe Root said Saturday his team must fix their fielding and batting to get back into the Ashes series, while defending the decision to leave Jimmy Anderson and Stuart Broad out of the first Test. A dominant Australia humbled England by nine wickets to win the opener convincingly at Brisbane inside four … Read more

Weekly inflation continues downward trend: Farrukh Habib

ISLAMABAD: Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting Farrukh Habib on Friday said that prices of edible items were declining in the third consecutive week that ended on December 9 as compared to the same period last year. In a tweet, he said the price of tomato price was reduced by 13.37 per cent, chicken … Read more

Stokes struggles, Root’s bad call: What we learned from first Ashes Test

Ashes

BRISBANE: Australia overwhelmed England by nine wickets to win the first Ashes Test at Brisbane on Saturday. Read more: Ruthless Australia crush England in first Ashes Test AFP Sport looks at what we learned from the opening match in a five-Test clash: Tactical blunder England’s decision to go into the opening Test without their two … Read more

Ruthless Australia crush England in first Ashes Test

Australia

BRISBANE: A ruthless Australia crushed England by nine wickets to win the first Ashes Test in style just after lunch on day four at the Gabba on Saturday. Needing just 20 runs after bowling England out for 297 in their second innings — with Nathan Lyon taking his 400th Test scalp — Australia cruised to … Read more

Kenya’s popular SGR passenger train adds coaches ahead of the festive season

NAIROBI — Kenya Railways (KR) has added the number of coaches on the standard gauge railway passenger train as demand for the popular service doubles ahead of the holiday season. The KR said in a notice on Friday that the additional coaches would cater for the increased number of passengers during the festive season. “You … Read more

Jay-Z busts Western cowboy myths in all-Black ‘The Harder They Fall’

Jay-Z busts Western cowboy myths in all-Black 'The Harder They Fall'

Jay-Z said Thursday that his new Western movie “The Harder They Fall” aims to correct misconceptions that all cowboys were white, wore ponchos and listened to “Italian guitar music.” The US rap superstar is a producer on the Netflix revenge drama starring Idris Elba and Regina King among an all-Black ensemble, as real and once-famous characters … Read more

UK virus cases highest since January: minister

UK virus cases highest since January: minister

LONDON, Dec 10, 2021 (AFP) – The UK on Friday saw the highest number of Covid infections since January, a senior minister said Friday, as the government seeks to slow the spread of the new variant. Communities Secretary Michael Gove said that the country faces a “deeply concerning situation” as the Omicron variant spreads rapidly, with … Read more

U.S. consumer prices rise at fastest annual pace in almost 40 years

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WASHINGTON — U.S. consumer prices in November rose at the fastest annual pace in almost 40 years, increasing pressure on the Federal Reserve to tighten monetary policy, the U.S. Labor Department reported on Friday. The consumer price index (CPI) last month rose 0.8 percent from the previous month and 6.8 percent from a year earlier, … Read more

World Bank grants Somalia 150 mln USD for electricity recovery project

World Bank

MOGADISHU — The World Bank on Friday announced a 150 million U.S. dollar grant for an electricity recovery project to help light up Somalia. The lender said the electricity recovery project is set to increase access to cleaner, lower cost electricity for 1.1 million households, or approximately seven million people, of which 3.5 million are … Read more

Decentraland MANA Price Prediction: Further incline expected

The developing pattern of Decentraland MANA on the daily chart is making it likely for the MANA/USDT pair to continue the remedial decline if the pattern is established. The year 2022 is considered to be the big year for the Metaverse tokens. Facebook’s rebranding mostly has driven the price upsurges in early November to Meta … Read more

Who designed the Walima outfit for Junaid Safder?

Who designed the Walima outfit for Junaid Safder?

Junaid Safdar’s wedding festivities are happening in Lahore with a list of luxurious events, including Qawali night and family singing jam sessions. Apart from celebration events, Junaid Safdar’s wedding preparations are also in full swing. PML-N Vice President Maryam Nawaz, with her son, went to prominent Pakistani designer Hassan Sheheryar Yasin, also known as HSY, for fittings on Friday.

HSY disclosed in a photo that he is creating Junaid Safder’s Walima outfit and had the pleasure of fitting all of the clothing. Sharing the pictures with Nawaz Sharif’s daughter and grandson, the designer wrote, “Was a pleasure do fittings of all the clothes we have designed for #junaidsafdar for his upcoming wedding this week.”

Read more: VIDEO: Maryam Nawaz Sings Indian Song at Junaid Safdar’s Wedding Festivities

“We created looks that are both classic and timeless using materials that are all proudly made in Pakistan. I found him to be incredibly polite and well-mannered and all of us at HSY wish him and his wife all the very best for the future,” he added along with the picture of the groom.

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Junaid’s reception is scheduled to be held on December 17 in Lahore, and he tied the knot with former politician Saif-ur-Rehman’s daughter, Aisha Saif, on August 22 in London.

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Harbhajan singh shares a throwback photo says “Pehchano To Maane”

Harbhajan singh shares a throwback photo says "Pehchano To Maane"

Harbhajan Singh uploaded a throwback picture from his early days in cricket. Singh, who last played for the Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) in the Indian Premier League (IPL) in 2021, has always been a marathon runner. He took to Twitter to share a picture from his U-19 days, asking followers to guess the names of … Read more