Gold price in Saudi Arabiarecorded a decreaseof SAR6,528.31 per ounce on 29 August 2022.
These rates are given in 1 tola, 1 gramme, and 10-gramme increments in Saudi Riyal. Every day, the local gold and bullion markets in the Saudi provide live rates.
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Today’s Gold Rate in Saudi Arabia
Check the updated gold price in Saudi Arabia on, 29 August 2022.
The rate of 24 karat/gram decreased to SAR 209.89 from the previous day’s SAR 212.07.
The gold rate (22 karat/gram) depreciated to SAR 192.39 from the previous day’s SAR 194.40.
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Ounce
24 Carat
22 Carat
21 Carat
18 Carat
August 29
6,528.31
209.89
192.39
183.65
157.41
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"'The Next Revolution" host Steve Hilton blamed President Biden on Sunday for turning a strong U.S. economy into a 'weak, stagnant' one, calling the rate at which the country has entered a technical recession "genuinely astounding" – considering the state of the economy under former President Trump.
STEVE HILTON: Just out of interest, I went back and read Biden’s inaugural address again, and I noticed something amazing. Not the endless disingenuous policies about unity, but the fact he barely even talks about the economy. It’s hardly mentioned and now we know why. Because Biden’s actual economic plan now coming into full horrific view was this: how quickly and how comprehensively can we take a strong growing economy and turn it into a weak, shrinking, stagnant one? And the answer is, pretty damn quickly.
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Revised GDP numbers show the economy shrank at an even faster rate than previously reported during the first quarter, and now it is down again. So that does mean we’re in a recession. The rate at which this Biden regime has driven our economy into the ground is actually genuinely astounding.
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It was only just a few years ago with Trump that we had the best economy for half a century. Blue collar boom, the lowest unemployment levels we've ever seen, especially for women, Black people and Latinos. But now look, we went from becoming a net energy exporter to waging a self-defeating war on energy… we went from affordable gas prices to the highest average cost per gallon on record, from pro-growth to anti-growth, pro-America to anti-America. This is Biden’s mad agenda and this is Biden’s avoidable recession.
India are ready to embrace the "odd failure" in their quest to ramp up the run rate across phases of a match, in the lead-up to the T20 World Cup, their captain Rohit Sharma has said after winning the first T20I against West Indies.
"We want to try certain things when we bat in the first six overs, when we bat in the middle overs, and how we finish off the games," Rohit said after India's 68-run victory. "So, there are three facets of the game we want to try to improve, and how we can get the best out of each player. We've given specific roles to specific players to come and do the job for the team. Today, we did it. There's no guarantee that it will happen every game, but we got to try and back those ideas of going out there and trying to execute certain skills with the bat.
"And while doing that we will have some odd failures here and there, but we are pretty much okay with that. We want to try to do certain things when we bat, and I think we're able to achieve certain things. So, all in all, I thought it was a great effort and we want to continue to do that."
Speaking to BCCI.tv, Karthik said Rohit and India coach Rahul Dravid had built a team environment that gave players security, despite failures. "I'm really enjoying this set-up - the kind of calmness that seems to be around this set-up in terms of the coach and the captain, I think a lot of credit must go to the both of them. I think they have set up an atmosphere where they are dealing with failure in the most rational way possible. They are also bringing on board people who can help players [alluding to Paddy Upton's appointment as mental-conditioning coach] and try and be themselves. I think that was something that could have been missing before. At times when I didn't do well, I felt treated the same way and the dressing-room atmosphere is very calm and good."
In T20Is in 2022, India have scored at a rate of 9.46 per over, their best in a year where they have played more than one match. Only New Zealand (10.21) have scored at a faster clip than India.
Rohit, though, cautioned his batters against going too hard on pitches that aren't conducive to such an approach and urged them to be smarter with their decisions.
"But, again, we need to understand what sort of pitch we play on," he said. "Certain pitches will not allow you to do that, so you got to take a backward step and see how you can play in those overs because the guys have a lot of skill and they've played on all sorts of pitches back home. So, they just need to back those skillsets with the bat in the middle overs."
That India eventually scored 190 for 6 after being 138 for 6 in 16 overs was down to Karthik's blows in the last two overs. Such a total, Rohit said, seemed beyond India's reach at the halfway mark of their innings.
"The nature of the pitch… we knew it was going to be slightly tough," Rohit said. "The shot-making wasn't that easy at the start and at the same time, we do understand that guys who are set need to carry on as long as possible because there was some grip for the spinners. The odd variation wasn't easy to pick.
"But the way we finished off the first innings getting to 190 was a great effort because I really thought this wasn't a pitch where you can get 170-180 when we were batting in the first half of the game and when we finished the first ten overs."
'Difficult to read pitches in the Caribbean' - Pooran
West Indies captain Nicholas Pooran admitted that his side's indiscipline played a part in India posting a total that was above par.
Kyle Mayers dropped Suryakumar Yadav on 10 at short cover, Alzarri Joseph kept offering pace and bowling short to Rohit, Jason Holder missed his yorkers at the death, and then their batting unravelled in the chase. To add to West Indies' woes, they could have just four fielders outside the 30-yard circle during the end of India's innings due to an in-match penalty for slow over rate.
"I did feel like they got 20 runs more," Pooran said after the game. "And that was basically with our indiscipline. Obviously, with the over rate there in our last two overs and an extra guy in the circle, it was a big challenge for our bowlers. But we need to be a bit more disciplined."
West Indies picked just one spinner for the game - Akeal Hosein, who took 1 for 14 from his fours overs - while India went with three - Ravi Bishnoi, R Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja, who shared five wickets among them. Did West Indies misread the conditions in what was the first international match at the Brian Lara Stadium?
"In hindsight, it is difficult to read the pitches in the Caribbean, to be honest," Pooran said. " We can go back and say maybe we missed a trick, but in hindsight, anything could happen. The last two overs went for 40-odd [36] runs. Maybe 160 would've played differently for us, but we will definitely reflect on the decision that we made and will definitely try to get better in the days to come."
The teams travel to Basseterre in St. Kitts for the second and third T20 internationals on August 1 and 2.
Citizens wearing face masks amid concerns over the spread of coronavirus, wait in a queue in Islamabad, Pakistan, on May 19, 2021. — AFP/File
Pakistan reports 532 COVID-19 cases in last 24 hours.
Country's positivity ratio stands at 2.74%.
COVID-19 claims three more lives overnight.
The COVID-19 positivity ratio in Pakistan has witnessed a slight decline after nearing 3% for several days, the National Institute of Health, Islamabad (NIH) data showed Sunday morning.
Pakistan reported 532 COVID-19 cases during the last 24 hours, which placed the country's coronavirus positivity ratio at 2.74%. The new infections were detected after diagnostic testing on 19,402 samples.
Moreover, the virus claimed the lives of three more people overnight, pushing the country's COVID-19 death toll to 30,467.
Meanwhile, 179 coronavirus patients are being treated in critical care units of different medical facilities across the country.
What is COVID BA.5 variant and why is it reinfecting so many people?
BA5, part of the Omicron family, is the latest coronavirus variant to cause widespread waves of infection globally.
According to the World Health Organisation’s most recent report, it was behind 52% of cases sequenced in late June, up from 37% in one week. In the United States, it is estimated to be causing around 65% of infections.
Rising case numbers
BA5 is not new. First identified in January, it has been tracked by the WHO since April.
It is a sister variant of the Omicron strain that has been dominant worldwide since the end of 2021 and has already caused spikes in case rates – even with reduced testing – in countries including South Africa, where it was first found, as well as the United Kingdom, parts of Europe, and Australia.
Coronavirus cases worldwide have now been rising for four weeks in a row, WHO data showed.
Why is it spreading
Like its closely related sibling, BA4, BA5 is particularly good at evading the immune protection afforded either by vaccination or prior infection.
For this reason, “BA5 has a growth advantage over the other sublineages of Omicron that are circulating,” Maria Van Kerkhove, the WHO’s technical lead on COVID-19, told a news briefing on Tuesday.
For many people, this means that they are getting re-infected, often even a short time after having COVID-19. Van Kerkhove said the WHO is assessing reports of re-infections.
“We have ample evidence that people who’ve been infected with Omicron are getting infected with BA5. No question about it,” said Gregory Poland, a virologist and vaccine researcher with the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.
