Day: August 11, 2026

PCB Central Contracts Salary 2026: Here’s What Every Category Actually Pays

Kainat R
PCB central contracts salary 2026 category wise players list

Pakistan’s top cricketers are staring at a completely different pay system this year, and nobody outside the PCB boardroom seems totally sure how it will shake out. The PCB central contracts salary structure has stayed largely unchanged through the 2025–26 season, with Category B players drawing PKR 3 million a month and Category D earning PKR 1.5 million. But the board has now confirmed a bigger shake-up is coming: a format-based central contract system for 2026–27 that scraps the old A, B, C, D grading entirely. As of this week,…

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Netanyahu Rejects Trump’s Gaza Plan as Israel Heads Toward October Elections

Kainat R
Benjamin Netanyahu speaking at an Israeli Cabinet meeting

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has formally rejected US President Donald Trump’s 15-point plan for Gaza. Netanyahu told his Cabinet that Israeli forces will not withdraw from the territory until Hamas is fully disarmed. The announcement lands weeks before Israel’s national elections, scheduled for October, where Netanyahu is fighting for his political survival. Background Benjamin Netanyahu is Israel’s longest-serving prime minister, currently in his sixth term as head of the right-wing Likud party. He was born in Tel Aviv in 1949 and spent part of his teenage years in Pennsylvania,…

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Why Eating Earlier Could Be Better for Your Health, Scientists Say

Nadeem Ali

For generations, people have been told that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. But emerging research suggests that when you eat may be almost as important as what you eat. In Spain, meal schedules offer an interesting contrast to eating habits in countries such as the UK and United States. Lunch is traditionally the largest meal of the day, while dinner is often much lighter. Some people may even skip dinner or choose something simple such as fruit and yoghurt. By comparison, many people in the UK…

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Trump Orders Review of Childhood Vaccines, Calls for Changes to MMR Shots

Nadeem Ali

US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order calling for changes to the country’s childhood vaccination recommendations, including reducing the number of vaccines routinely recommended for children and separating the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine into individual shots. Trump defended the move by arguing that children in previous generations received fewer vaccines and claimed that people were healthier at the time. He also linked the rise in autism diagnoses to the expansion of childhood vaccination, although scientific studies have repeatedly found no evidence that MMR vaccines cause autism.…

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