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A total of 12 teams have been confirmed for the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2026 after the Super 8 stage of the ongoing marquee tournament was finalised. The T20 World Cup 2026 will follow the same format as the ongoing edition, featuring 20 teams, divided into four groups of five. The top two teams from each group will then qualify for the semi-finals. After Bangladesh emerged victorious over Nepal in a low-scoring thriller and advanced into the next round, 12 teams have been confirmed for the T20 World Cup 2026. The teams to secure qualification before the regional qualifiers are hosts India and Sri Lanka, and seven teams from the Super 8s of the T20 World Cup 2024 — Australia, England, Bangladesh, USA, Afghanistan, South Africa and West Indies. Meanwhile, Pakistan, New Zealand and Ireland are the remaining three teams to qualify for the mega event on the basis of superior team ranking. The remaining eight teams for T20 World Cup 2026 will be decided through regional qualifiers. Fo...

KARACHI: The Sui Southern Gas Company (SSGC) has announced that there will be no gas loadshedding in Sindh, including Karachi, during Eidul Adha days (June 15 to 18), effective midnight today, ARY News reported on Sunday. According to a statement, the gas supply will remain uninterrupted during the Eid holidays, bringing relief to the citizens. However, the company has clarified that the regular gas loadshedding schedule will resume from June 19. Pakistan will celebrate Eidul Adha on June 17 after the Zil Hajj moon was sighted on June 7. Eidul Adha, also known as the Festival of Sacrifice, is a significant Islamic holiday celebrated by millions of Muslims around the world, including Pakistan. It marks the willingness of Prophet Ibrahim (PBUH) to sacrifice his son as an act of obedience to Allah. To commemorate this occasion, Muslims engage in acts of charity, perform special prayers, and share festive meals with family and friends. from ARY NEWS https://ift.tt/2PIXG4f

In a historic achievement, Pakistani climber Samar Khan successfully scaled Mount Elbrus, the highest peak in Europe, and descended the peak by snowboarding. Hailing from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Dir district, Samar becomes the first Pakistani to reach the summit of Mount Elbrus, standing tall at 5,642 meters in Russia. With the support of the Frontier Corps North, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Khan accomplished this remarkable feat and proudly hoisted the Pakistani flag on the summit. “I’m pleased to announce that I have successfully climbed Europe’s highest peak, Mt. Elbrus, and snowboarded down, becoming the first Pakistani to pioneer this feat in the world of action sports,” she wrote on Instagram. “I set out for the summit push around 3am and reached the top by 10am with a green flag, followed by an exhilarating snowboarding descent from Elbrus,” she added while thanking everyone for the support.   View this post on Instagram   A post shared b...

Legendary Pakistani pace bowler Wasim Akram and former Indian cricketer Sunil Gavaskar took social media by storm after a viral video showed them dancing during a T20 World Cup 2024 game. The two shook legs to the tunes of the popular Bollywood song Lungi Dance from Shah Rukh Khan and Deepika Padukone’s Chennai Express. The viral video showed Wasim Akram and Sunil Gavaskar dancing their hearts out to the hit number in the middle of the ground. They duo end their performance with a high-five before a woman was seen clicking a selfie with them. https://arynews.tv/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/ssstwitter.com_1718477208757.mp4 India remain unbeaten in the ongoing T20 World Cup 2024 as they won three out of their four group-stage games while one was washed out. Pakistan, on the other hand, had a harrowing run at the marquee event as they were knocked out of the tournament in the group-stage. Read more: Wasim Akram demands sacking of whole team The Men in Green were handed a shocking d...

Hollywood star Russell Crowe revealed the reason behind turning down a role in Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy. The Oscar-winning actor surprised everyone with his answer when he was asked if he had regrets turning down the role of Aragorn in The Lord of the Rings trilogy. “I don’t actually. I very much felt the studio were making that decision, not the film director. And I talked to Peter Jackson over the phone, and he wasn’t saying the sort of things that directors were saying to you if they were really trying to attract you to a project. And I just kind of got a sense that he already had somebody else in mind that he wanted to do. And me stepping forward and saying yes was actually going to get in his way,” he said during a British GQ video interview. It is pertinent to mention that Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings trilogy grossed $2.9 billion worldwide and is one of the most acclaimed film trilogies ever made. “We come from the same place,” Russell Crowe said. “So the...

Police launched an investigations after a viral video showed a gang of armed women entering a house and cleaning it in a heist that spanned around an hour. The incident occurred in India’s Lucknow city when the masked women entered the house and packed all the valuables in sacks and left with ease, an Indian media outlet reported. According to reports, the house belonged to a man named Sandeep Gulati who worked as the joint director with the Health Department. The entire heist was caught on CCTV cameras placed in and around the house. https://arynews.tv/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/ssstwitter.com_1718353840403.mp4 The viral video showed the women collecting different things including jewellery, cash and home appliances from across the house. Police said that the thieves managed to carry out the heist with ease as the family was not in the house. Later, another video, recorded through a CCTV camera installed on the entrance of the house, showed the women carrying sacks full of var...

KARACHI: The local police on Thursday arrested the DSP and his son after the police vehicle allocated to the police official used in the robbery at a shop in Karachi, ARY News reported. The police arrested the DSP, his son who allegedly used the police vehicle to commit a robbery in Gulshan Iqbal area of ​​Karachi. As per the statement of police officials, the citizen – Abbas – captured in the CCTV footage assisting the robbers was also arrested who later released after taking his statement. The accused robbers also tampered with the number plate of the cob vehicle. “I was just an ordinary citizen of Gulshan-e-Iqbal, the policemen asked me to help them shifting the items in the police mobile,” Abbas in his statement told police. from ARY NEWS https://ift.tt/UIqnGLE