Plane crashes in Margalla Hills in Islamabad

A private airline passenger plane carrying 150 passengers crashed in the Margalla Hills on Wednesday morning. So far 10 bodies have been recovered, according to CDA Chairman Imtiaz Inayatullah. The dead bodies have been sent to PIMS hospital. According to Spokesman PIA Sultan Hassan , a Blue Air passenger plane ED-202 carrying 152 passengers including 5 children, two infants and 6 crew members departed from Karachi airport at 7:50 am for Islamabad however during the flight suddenly all contact was lost with the flight with the control tower and after a while it crashed near Daman-e-Koh on Margalla Hills due to inclement weather. Eyewitnesses said More at www.PkNews.tk>>>

NEPRA increases power tariff by 64 paisas

The National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (NEPRA) once again increased power tariff by 64 paisas per unit. According to the Nepra sources, the tariff was raised under the fuel adjustment, will be implemented from August 1 and consumers will have to pay this additional fuel surcharge in their electricity bills of August. According to sources, the Central Power Purchase Agency had recommended for increase in power prices by Rs 1 to RS 2. However NEPRA has approved 64 paisas increase under the fuel adjustment. More...>> (www.pkpeople.tk)

Judiciary gets wisdom from parliament: CJP

Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry has said the court gets wisdom from the parliament. In his remarks during hearing of petitions challenging various clauses of the 18th Constitutional Amendment, the Chief Justice said the judiciary respects the parliament. "We praise the parliament for not endorsing the steps taken on November 3, 2007. More...

Markets closure at 8pm, 2 weekly offs to continue till Oct 31

Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani chaired a conference on energy to discuss all aspects of the power shortage and to evolve measures to tackle energy crisis in the country in which it is decided to continue to observe measures of closure of markets at 8pm and two-weekly holidays in government offices till Octorber 31. More...

Six Turkish soldiers killed in Kurdish rebel attack

Separatist Kurdish rebels attacked a Turkish military unit near the Iraqi border, killing six soldiers in one of their bloodiest assaults this year, officials said Tuesday. The Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militants, armed with rockets and assault rifles, launched the attack overnight, near the border town of Cukurca, targeting a military unit stationed there as reinforcement after a significant escalation of rebel violence since June, military sources said. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that six soldiers were killed and 15 wounded in the ensuing clashes, adding that a PKK rebel was shot dead by security forces. "We will pursue our struggle against terrorism with determination. We will continue fearlessly and tirelessly. We will not take even one small step back," he said. An operation was underway Tuesday to catch the assailants after the army deployed reinforcements, backed by air cover, the military source said.

Katrina Kaif Got a Fright...!!!

Katrina Kaif was in for a shock when she went to Ahmedabad to promote 'Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani' when as many as 5,000 fans turned up to see her – they were screaming her name, whistling, hooting and pushing around. So far so good. But the actress got a fright when the stage she was sitting on started shaking. Event organisers do not want to be named, but blame lack of planning for such incidents and say it discourages stars from taking risks.

Same Kind Of Story About Salman Khan
Salman Khan has been mobbed on several occasions. One such incident took place when he was promoting 'Veer' with Zarine Khan at a mall in Hyderabad. The situation went out of hand when the crowd got impatient and started pushing each other, injuring many. Hyderabad Police had to be called in to control the situation. Last year also, Salman was mobbed by unruly fans and had to be rescued by bodyguards when he visited Indore to promote 'London Dreams'.

It raised questions about why such things are done to promote a films.

India launches five satellites

Five satellites, including the advanced high resolution cartography satellite Cartosat-2B, were placed in orbit Monday after India's space agency ISRO successfully launched its Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) rocket from here.
"I am extremely happy to say PSLV 16 was a successful flight. All the satellites were injected precisely," Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Chairman K. Radhakrishnan said, reported IANS.
ISRO's 230 tonne PSLV - standing 44 metres tall - soared towards the heavens from the spaceport here, about 80 km north of Chennai. The five satellites together weigh 819 kg.
Apart from its main cargo - the Cartosat-2B weighing 694 kg - the other satellites that the rocket put into orbit are the Algerian remote sensing satellite Alsat-2A (116 kg), two nano satellites (NLS 6.1 AISSAT-1 weighing 6.5 kg built by the University of Toronto, Canada and one kg NLS 6.2 TISAT built by University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland) and STUDSAT, a pico satellite weighing less than one kg, built jointly by students of seven engineering colleges in Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka.
Twenty minutes after blast off, the rocket first released the Cartosat-2B followed by Alsat-2A and the three small satellites.
This was the first successful launch after Radhakrishnan took over as ISRO chairman last year.
"Two more launches are planned in three months time. One will be PSLV and another will GSLV (Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle)," he said.
Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia, who was present at the launch, congratulated the ISRO scientists on the "perfect launch" and said: "ISRO makes the country proud."
Immediately after the ejection of the satellites, the Spacecraft Control Centre at Bangalore with the help of ISTRAC (ISRO Telemetry Tracking and Command) Network of stations there and at Lucknow, Mauritius, Bearslake in Russia, Biak in Indonesia and Svalbard in Sweden monitored their health.

At least six dead in Iraq attacks

At least six people were killed in bomb attacks in Iraq on Tuesday, including a device which blew up in a mock coffin during a demonstration, security sources said. Dozens of people took part in the protest in Khales, 65 kilometres (40 miles) north of Baghdad, to demand stiff penalties for the perpetrators of anti-Shiite attacks in the city, the local security operations command said. The demonstrators were carrying a mock coffin when a booby-trapped device exploded inside the box, killing three people and wounding seven, an official at the centre told a foreign news agency. Sectarian tensions remain high in Khales, a city which in 2006-2007 was a battleground between Sunni insurgents of Al-Qaeda and Shiite militias. At the end of May, a car bombing in a Khales marketplace killed 30 people, two months after another 42 people perished in a double bomb attack near a coffeeshop and a restaurant.

Afghan soldier kills three British soldiers: Kabul

An Afghan soldier killed three British soldiers in southern Afghanistan on Tuesday, said a defence ministry spokesman in Kabul. "We confirm that an Afghan army soldier has opened fire and killed three British soldiers," Mohammad Zahir Azimi told a foreign news agency. He gave no immediate further details, but said the ministry would soon release a statement.