PESHAWAR, Jul 04 (APP):Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtnkhwa, Ali Amin Khan Gandapur on Friday unveiled Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s ambitious good governance roadmap during a ceremony at the CM’s House, attended by cabinet members, senior officials, and development partners.
The two-year plan introduces comprehensive reforms across twelve sectors with strict performance-based evaluation systems.
Key governance reforms include merit-based appointments, a Provincial Action Plan for timely mega project completion, and priority funding allocation.
The roadmap particularly focuses on healthcare (upgrading 250 health centers for round-the-clock maternal care and ensuring full medicine availability), education (halving out-of-school children numbers), and disability inclusion (10,000 scholarships and assistive devices).
Economic initiatives feature four new economic zones, livestock vaccination programs, and agricultural development including 1,000 premium fruit orchards. Infrastructure projects include the D.I. Khan-Peshawar Motorway and modernized vocational training institutes.
The environmental package covers solar energy for 130,000 households and upgraded waste management systems.
Tourism receives special emphasis with 50 new resorts and a homestay program across seven districts.
Chief Secretary-led quarterly reviews and an independent monitoring mechanism will track implementation. “This roadmap delivers our promise of transparent, performance-driven governance,” stated Chief Minister noting all targets have clear timelines and accountability frameworks.
The Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, is turning 90 and has confirmed – after years of uncertainty – that he will have a successor after his death and will not choose to end the line.
In Tibetan Buddhist tradition, the Dalai Lama is reincarnated after they die. Monks search, select, and school a successor – usually a child. The current Dalai Lama was recognised at the age of two. He and an estimated 150,000 Tibetans now live in exile in India, and other countries, after China annexed Tibet decades ago.
And that makes who the next Dalai Lama is, a concern of China’s.
Joining Matt Barbett is Professor Robert Barnett, who founded the Modern Tibetan Studies Programme at Columbia University and is now at University of London’s School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS). He has also met the Dalai Lama several times.
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WIMBLEDON — Laura Siegemund lost in Grand Slam qualifying the first 10 times she tried. When she put together three qualifying wins for the first time, 10 years ago here at Wimbledon, she lost in the first round.
In the intervening decade, the stoic German managed to win only two matches at the All England Club. But this year — at the age of 37, the second oldest woman in the starting field — has been completely different. On Friday, she defeated No. 6 seed Madison Keys 6-3 6-3 to advance to the fourth round. Those three match-wins in five days surpassed her career total here.
Keys, the Australian Open champion, had won 13 of her 14 Grand Slam matches this year. Aryna Sabalenka — still yet to play on Friday — is the only Top 10 seed left in the top half of the draw.
Next up for the No. 104-ranked Siegemund is another surprising second-week visitor. Lucky loser Solana Sierra has improbably put together three main-draw victories of her own — the first three of her Grand Slam career. The 21-year-old Argentine defeated Cristina Bucsa 7-5, 1-6, 6-1.
Like gum on your shoe, Siegemund hangs around. Like a cold you can’t shake, she lingers and lingers until the frustration mounts. This Keys discovered on a gorgeous sunny day on Court 2. Drop shots, slices, lobs, odd short balls — they were all coming at the 30-year-old American in surreal time.
Siegemund broke Keys’ serve no fewer than three times in the opening set, but it was on the other side that the set was truly won. Siegemund came into the match as the women’s leader in that crucible of resilience, break points saved, at 89 percent. She saved three of four against Keys and coasted to the first set by a tidy margin.
When Keys broke through in the opening game of the second, it seemed the tide may have shifted. But Siegemund, playing that confounding game that took Keys out of her rhythm, came right back, She broke Keys’ twice to take a commanding lead.
Siegemund finished with a clean card — 19 winners and only 11 unforced errors. Keys, meanwhile, had 16 winners and 31 unforced errors. Siegemund broke her serve five times.
She is also a formidable doubles player, with titles at the 2020 US Open and the 2023 WTA Finals. And now Siegemund can equal her career-best result here at Wimbledon — the doubles quarterfinals in 2023 and 2024 — with a win on Sunday.
Earlier, another seeded American, No. 13 Amanda Anisimova, was victorious — 6-3, 5-7, 6-3 over Dalma Galfi. She’ll play No. 30 Linda Noskova, a 7-6 (6), 7-5 winner over Kamilla Rakhimova.
A win would send Anisimova into the quarterfinals for the second time in four years.
Proving that it’s not just Intel CPUs that get included in bundle bargains these days, Newegg has a fantastic AMD Ryzen 7800X3D deal going at the moment, which not only enables you to pick up this chip for just $369.99 ($80 lower than Newegg’s list price), but you also get a free 1TB Team Group SSD with it. It’s a decent PCIe 4.0 drive as well, which is faster than older PCIe 3.0 drives, and way quicker than older SATA SSDs.
Importantly, you also get one of our favorite processors in this bundle. We gave this chip a score of 9/10 in our AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D review when it was released, and while it’s since been superseded by the new 9800X3D, the cheaper price of the 7800X3D means it still has a strong place on our guide to buying the best gaming CPU. That’s all thanks to this CPU’s huge slice of AMD 3D V-cache that sits on top of the CPU cores, and massively improves gaming performance.
We’ve seen the price of this chip fluctuate a fair bit over the last few months. Following a supply shortage after the launch of the new AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D, we saw prices of over $500 being listed for the 7800X3D earlier this year. We’ve since seen it drop as low as $358.59 since then, but $369.99 is still an excellent price for such a capable chip.
Its eight Zen 4 cores are more than enough for gaming, and while the clock speed is a little low at 5GHz, the huge amount of cache makes up for this massively. By effectively having a massive 96MB of L3 cache available, you massively reduce the likelihood of cache misses, which means the CPU is less likely to have to page your slower system memory for data.
The Ryzen 7 9800X3D might be quicker, with its 5.2GHz clock speed and faster Zen 5 architecture, but it also costs over $100 more, and the 7800X3D is still a great CPU. In fact, this is the chip we use to test all the GPUs in our guide to buying the best graphics card.
Meanwhile, the SSD on offer is a Team Group MP44L, which uses the 4x PCIe 4.0 interface and can read at up to 5,000MB/s, with a top sequential write pace of 4,500MB/s. While those speeds aren’t going to rival the PCIe 5.0 drives on our guide to buying the best gaming SSD, they’re still nearly 10x the speed of a SATA drive. Besides, you really can’t complain when you’re getting a PCIe 4.0 drive for free – it’s going for $62.99 on Newegg now if you buy it separately.
If you want to take advantage of this deal, you just need to click on this link here to take you to Newegg, and then make sure the “Add Free Gift Offer to Cart” box is ticked. You’ll need to be quick, though, as it’s listed as a limited offer.
If you’re thinking of building a new rig with this bundle, check out our best gaming motherboard guide to find a decent AM5 board to house your CPU and SSD, as well as our newly updated guide to buying the best CPU cooler for your needs. If you’re looking for a great budget cooler, we’ve tested the Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120SE ARGB on the 7800X3D, and it works fine, while also looking good for just $39.99.
Google is now offering compensation to Pixel 6a users facing battery-related issues. As part of its new Battery Performance Programme, the company is giving customers the option to either get their phone battery replaced for free or claim a cash or store credit payout. The move comes after complaints of overheating and battery performance concerns linked to the Pixel 6a.
To prevent further battery-related problems, Google will push a mandatory Android 16 update to all Pixel 6a devices. This update is aimed at improving battery efficiency and reducing overheating risks. While free battery replacement at authorised centres was already available, Google has now added more support choices for users who prefer to move on from the device.
According to details shared by the company, affected users who don’t want to go for a battery replacement can opt for a trade-in offer. Under this, Pixel 6a users can receive $100 (around Rs 8,500) as direct cash or choose to get $150 (approximately Rs 12,800) as a Google Store credit code. This store credit can be used towards buying a new Pixel phone. The final value in local currency will be based on the day’s exchange rate, and Google has mentioned that cash payouts may not be available in all regions, depending on local rules.
For handling payments, Google is working with Payoneer, a third-party financial platform. To process the money, users might need to share personal details like identification numbers, this will depend on the rules of the country the user is in. For example, users in the US may be asked to share their Social Security Number, while other regions may require alternate ID proof.
To know if they are eligible, Pixel 6a users must visit a dedicated eligibility page set up by Google. They’ll be required to enter their email address linked to the device and the IMEI number of the phone. In case someone is helping a family member or friend with the process, they can submit the details using another email ID, although Google has warned that it might ask for more information in some cases for verification.
Once eligibility is confirmed, users can go ahead and choose whether they want the free battery service or claim compensation. This move from Google gives users flexibility and support, especially those using older units or planning an upgrade. The combination of a required software update and hardware support shows that the company is taking battery issues on the Pixel 6a seriously while giving affected customers practical solutions.
We’ve scoured the internet for July 4 camera deals ahead of the Amazon Prime Day sales, taking place July 8-11 this year. There are some great offers to be had from top brands such as Canon, Sony and Nikon and more.
With our experienced reviewers having tested and reviewed these models (or their predecessors or successors), we can say with confidence that these cameras are worth the investment. What’s even better, you can grab them now for a reduced price.
Of course, there are many other cameras available so perhaps our best cameras guide may help you decide which camera you want to keep an eye on throughout the Amazon Prime Day sales.
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A NASA astronaut has captured an electrifying image of Earth from space, featuring a gigantic, jellyfish-shaped “sprite” of red lightning shooting upwards above a thunderstorm in North America. The rare phenomenon is still poorly understood, despite being studied for more than 30 years.
Nichole Ayers, the pilot of SpaceX’s Crew-10 mission and member of International Space Station (ISS) expeditions 72 and 73, snapped the striking photo on Thursday (July 3) as the space station passed above a large thunderstorm hanging over parts of Mexico and the southern U.S., including California and Texas.
“Just. Wow. As we went over Mexico and the U.S. this morning, I caught this sprite,” Ayers wrote on the social platform X. “Sprites are TLEs or Transient Luminous Events, that happen above the clouds and are triggered by intense electrical activity in the thunderstorms below,” she added.
TLEs are a range of visual phenomena that occur in the upper atmosphere during thunderstorms, including upward-shooting blue jets and UFO-like rings of light, known as ELVES. However, the most common TLEs are sprites, like the one photographed by Ayers.
Sprites are sometimes referred to as jellyfish because they contain multiple branches of light that spread out like tentacles, while others call them “carrots” because they can be accompanied by fainter tendrils that trail behind them in the opposite direction like plant roots. They are often associated with large thunderstorms, including those produced by hurricanes.
The red sprite in the new photo likely towered up to 50 miles above Earth’s surface. (Image credit: NASA/ISS/Nichole Ayers)
Sprites can range in size and shape, with the largest reaching up to 50 miles (80 kilometers) above Earth’s surface. They have a red color because they interact with nitrogen in the upper atmosphere, according to NASA’s Earth Observatory.
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Sprites were first properly observed in the 1950s by airline passengers but were not photographed until 1989. The red jellyfish have also been spotted in the atmosphere of Jupiter, and they are thought to occur on Saturn and Venus, according to Live Science’s sister site Space.com.
But despite years of research, researchers are still unsure why some lightning strikes cause sprites and others don’t, according to FOX Weather.
TLEs from space
Sprites and other TLEs can be photographed from Earth’s surface if the conditions are right. However, ISS astronauts are uniquely well-positioned to see TLEs and frequently see the flashes of lightning strikes at the same time, providing useful data to help researchers figure out how these phenomena work.
“We have a great view above the clouds, so scientists can use these types of pictures to better understand the formation, characteristics, and relationship of TLEs to thunderstorms,” Ayers wrote.
One of the most recent examples of this was in March, when an unnamed ISS astronaut snapped faint red sprites glowing at the end of a “gigantic jet” of lightning shooting upward above New Orleans.
Another excellent example was an eerie red jellyfish that seemed to float independently in Earth’s atmosphere, high above a flash of lightning in June 2024, Space.com previously reported.
