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Masked protesters mistake Pakistan cricketers

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A group of masked protesters gathered outside a four-star hotel in Portsmouth after wrongly believing that asylum seekers had been taken there, only to discover that the men staying at the hotel were members of Pakistan’s Undder-19 cricket team. According to The Guardian, around 40 people, many wearing balaclavas or other face coverings, assembled outside the Marriott hotel following reports that a group of apparently foreign men had arrived by coach. Reform councillor George Madgwick, who was called … Read more

NEVs get major tax relief

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PM approves 1% sales tax for EVs but protection for existing assemblers continues ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has approved a draft of a new five-year auto policy, continuing protection to existing assemblers of conventional vehicles for four more years but offering substantial tax incentives on new energy vehicles (NEVs) to substantially reduce their prices. … Read more

Google to invest $15 billion in AI infrastructure and buy nuclear power in Finland

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Google says the AI infrastructure build-out will involve development of three new data centres in the country’s north A view of Fortum’s nuclear power plant in Loviisa, Finland, September 2, 2024. REUTERS Alphabet’s Google will invest at least €13 billion ($15.1 billion) in AI ‌infrastructure in nippy Nordic country Finland over the next two years, its … Read more

Who are the Pakistanis?

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I was once having a discussion with a Mexican friend of mine here in America. I asked him what his authentic national language was, to which he replied that it was Spanish. I asked him again, this time reminding him that his people were colonised and ruled over by the Spaniards, and so what the … Read more