TT Staff Reporter

Cristiano Ronaldo scored twice as Al Nassr beat Damac 4-1 on the final day of the 2025-26 Saudi Pro League season to win the title by two points over Al Hilal. The 41-year-old reached 973 career goals and ended a six-year wait for a major club trophy. Portugal and the World Cup are next.

When India's Chief Justice compared unemployed youth to cockroaches, Abhijeet Dipke turned the insult into a political movement. In six days the Cockroach Janta Party accumulated over 18 million Instagram followers, outpacing every political party in India. Its X account was withheld. It came back. Now it wants a seat in Bihar. The Thursday Times has the full story.

آپریشن سندور کے بعد ایک سال کے دوران بھارتی روپیہ پاکستانی روپے کے مقابلہ میں تقریباً 13 فیصد نیچے گِر چکا ہے۔ مئی 2025 میں تقریباً 3 اعشاریہ 32 پاکستانی روہے سے مئی 2026 میں تقریباً 2 اعشاریہ 90 پاکستانی روپے تک گراوٹ واضح اور تیز تبدیلی کو ظاہر کرتی ہے۔

The Indian rupee has weakened nearly thirteen per cent against the Pakistani rupee since Operation Sindoor, according to exchange-rate data reviewed by The Thursday Times.

Senior RSS and military remarks in India have reopened the question of dialogue with Pakistan, exposing the limits of New Delhi’s hardline public posture. At the same time, Islamabad is trying to show that its relevance now extends beyond India, through crisis diplomacy involving Iran, the US, the Gulf, China and multilateral finance.