Greece approve austerity as protesters, police clash
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Greek lawmakers approved a new round of drastic austerity measures late Sunday after a long day of street battles between police and protesters left Athens buildings ablaze and the streets in chaos.
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The deputies defied the 100,000-strong turnout in Athens and Thessaloniki and approved another round of stringent budget measures requested by Greece s international creditors in return for a multi-billion rescue fund.
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Greek Prime Minister Lucas Papademos denounced the violence in the debate leading up to the vote, saying the street battles around the parliament building had no place in a democracy.
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Deputies “will assume their responsibility” and make the most important choice of “advancing with Europe and the single currency”, Papademos said shortly before the vote took place.
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The fire brigade said 10 buildings were set ablaze in central Athens, most of them by petrol bombs hurled by masked protesters who have been a common presence at anti-austerity marches since the crisis began in 2010.
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The health ministry said 54 people were injured in the day s events.
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Fire engines were initially unable to intervene because of the size of the protest and the chaos that filled the streets around the parliament building, where lawmakers debated the austerity plan ahead of a late-night vote.
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When protesters wearing gas masks tried to break through the riot police cordon around parliament, the standoff broke out into running battles, with tear gas canisters and rocks flying in opposite directions.
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An estimated 80,000 protesters gathered in Athens, police said, matching the biggest turnouts achieved against earlier austerity packages last year, while around 20,000 also demonstrated in the second city of Thessaloniki.
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Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos told parliament it had to back the government-approved plan to unlock a 130 billion euro ($171 billion) rescue fund from the EU and the IMF, or Greece would be forced to default.
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“The situation is very clear. Tonight at midnight before the markets open the Greek parliament must send the message that our nation can and will (support the debt deal),” Venizelos said.
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The pressure on Greece is huge as leaders in the eurozone core countries express their exasperation with Athens and increasingly minimise the wider dangers of the country stumbling out of the single currency.
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Court releases 14-year-old boy jailed for stealing kite
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As per details, Model town police had arrested a 14-year-old boy Arsalan on kite flying charges and presented him before the court of judicial magistrate.
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Court sent him to jail on judicial remand.
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Gujranwala session judge took the notice of the incident and ordered to release Arslan.
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Rakeysh Mehra to make documentary on Shammi Kapoor
Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra announced a while back that he would be making a biopic based on the life of the ‘Flying Sikh’ Milkha Singh. With that project currently underway, Rakeysh has already decided on his next.
Rakeysh is all set to make a documentary on the life and times of yesteryear’s star, Shammi Kapoor. The said documentary is apparently Rakeysh’s tribute to Shammi Kapoor. The actual work on the documentary is slated to begin after the completion of Bhaag Milkha Bhaag.
Suicide attack in south Yemen wounds eight
August 3, 2010 by Trend PK
Filed under World News
ADEN: Eight people were wounded on Tuesday when a suspected Qaeda suicide bomber blew himself up near a police station in the southern Yemeni town of Daleh, a security official said.
“Eight people were wounded including six policemen in a suicide attack on a police station” in Daleh which “carries the fingerprints of Al-Qaeda,” the official said.
Earlier on Tuesday, witnesses said that a motorbike exploded near a police station in Daleh wounding three policemen and two civilians.
A security official in Daleh said that “body parts of the suicide bomber who carried out the attack were recovered.”
Yemen”s separatist south, where many residents complain of insecurity and discrimination by the Sanaa government in the allocation of resources, is the site of frequent protests and periodic unrest.
Last week, a security official said four policemen were wounded when “separatist outlaw elements launched a series of attacks on a police station in the town of Daleh and on three military posts in the town”s outskirts.”
The town”s security head, Major Ali Saleh al-Azraqi was among the injured, the official had added.
The southern region also has become a regrouping ground for Al-Qaeda fighters.
The Sanaa government has intensified its operations against Al-Qaeda since the network”s local affiliate claimed the attempted bombing of a US-bound airliner on Christmas Day last year.
The south was independent from 1967 until 1990 when it united with the north. Secession in 1994 sparked a short-lived conflict that ended when the south was overrun by northern troops.
One more dies in Kashmir, as India continues bloodshed
August 3, 2010 by Trend PK
Filed under World News
SRINAGAR: Three more lost their lives in police action in Kashmir.
In Srinagar, a boy has been killed in Shalteng near Zainakote area in the outskirts of Srinagar in police and paramilitary firing.
The slain teen has been identified as Sahil Ahmad Dar S/O Mohammad Yasin Dar of Zainakote.
Doctors at SMHS Hospital said that the boy was brought dead to the hospital. He had received bullets in his abdomen.
Reports said that other seven are wounded in Shalteng.
In Kulgam, two persons were killed and fifteen others were injured when police and paramilitary forces opened fire on a group of demonstrators at Frisal Kulgam a short while ago. Five of the injured are said to be in a critical condition.
As the news of the deaths spread, hundreds of people came out of their homes and set on fire a Police Post and the house of a Special Police Officer (SPO) who is believed to have taken part in the firing.
Elsewhere, thousands of people have assembled outside Kulgam District Police Lines to protest against the killings.
Police personnel were firing in air to quell the demonstrators.
Elsewhere, Shoot-at-sight orders were announced along the Srinagar International Airport today by the Police. Special Flying Squads made announcements between Hydepora and Humhama adjoining, warning people not the come out of their homes.
Meanwhile, reports from the hill resort of Tangmarg near Gulmarg say massive protests are being held in the area against the ongoing civilian killings in Kashmir. Angry protesters hurled stones on the house of local Member Assembly, Ghulam Hassan Mir, and tried to set it on fire. However the guards there fired in the air and the people dispersed.
Clashes between security forces and demonstrators were going in most parts of the summer capital including Lal Bazar, Nawpora, Khanyar, Nowhatta, Gojwara, Qammarwari, Bemina etc.
At Jamia Masjid, thousands of people offered funeral Prayers of Anees Ahamd Ganai, who was shot dead by police in Narwara in old city Srinagar.
Defying the Curfew people rushes towards Eidgah (Martyr’s Graveyard) police fired teargas Shells at Hazratbal, Hyderpora, Safa Kadal, Karan Nagar and other areas of Srinagar.
Additional security forces, which were deployed at Rambagh Bridge, were rushed to Sheikhpora.
As two people were injured when security forces opened fire to disperse demonstrators at Sheikhpora in the central Kashmir district of Budgam.
Air Blue rules out technical problem in plane crash
ISLAMABAD: Chief Executive of Air Blue Airline Shahid Khaqan Abbasi has said that the bodies of 102 passengers, killed in the Wednesday’s plane crash in Margalla Hills, have been handed over to their heirs, while samples for DNA tests of 62 individuals have been sent to the laboratory.
Talking to media-persons here on Friday he said that the airline would pay insurance money to heirs of the plane crash victims, for which registration has begun.
He asked the relatives of victims to get themselves registered with the airline through internet or report to the nearest Air Blue office.
Abbasi said that search for the black box of the plane was underway. “At the time of the crash, the plane was flying at a height of 1000 feet. The black box has not yet been found because the wreckage spread far and wide”, he said.
He said that six personnel of Air Blue were also members of the investigation team tasked to find the causes of the incident, adding “We want to make public the details of the investigative report.”
Brushing aside the rumours that the pilot of the airliner was suffering from fatigue, he said the pilot had rested for 36 hours before the flight.
He said Pervaiz Iqbal Chaudhry, the pilot of the ill-fated plane was a seasoned pilot, who had 25000 hours experience to hi credit.
The chief executive said that the pilot was 61- year- old, while the standard at the international level is 65 years.
Abbasi said that Flying Officer Mujttahid Chughtai was 34-year- old and he had served in Pakistan Air Force as a F-16 jetfighter pilot. He had 1700 hours experience including the 300 hours in the crashed plane.
He did not agree that there was any technical problem that resulted in airliner”s crash and added there was also no report of any terrorist act. Even, the Interior Minister Rehman A. Malik hadalready ruled out the possibility of any act of terrorism, he said.
To a question he said that rules and laws of the Civil Aviation Authority were very strict and it was evident from the six years” record of Air Blue that it strictly followed those rules and never committed a violation.
He claimed that the Air Blue was the first airline in Pakistan, which started issuing boarding cards to passengers after checking their ID Cards.
mall of america
May 28, 2010 by Trend PK
Filed under World News
Mall Of America,Mall Cops:I used to live around the corner from the Mall Of America in Bloomington, Minnesota. And I do not mean “around the corner” figuratively. I lived around the corner. I did not go frequently, because honestly, there’s no good reason to go to the Mall Of America for your everyday shopping needs, unless your everyday shopping needs are extensive.
But I’ve certainly logged my share of hours there, along with most of the rest of the Twin Cities, at some point or another. (Not on Black Friday, though. I generally observed a rule that I didn’t go in that building between Thanksgiving and New Year’s.) When I saw that TLC was putting on an unscripted show called Mall Cops: Mall Of America to fill some time this summer, I cannot tell a lie. I thought: “Yaaaay!”
The first episode, which deals with Black Friday, airs tonight at 10:00 p.m. How is it? Well, honestly, it’s a TLC show about mall cops. 
Mall cops bust shoplifters! Mall cops ask unsettling people to leave! Mall cops ask that one guy to stop dancing to the music in his head, because it’s kind of freaking people out! MALL COPS.
Mall of America is fast-moving and engaging. Episodes 1 and 2 have already shown that the people showcased at this massive shopping complex aren’t just a bunch of dumb flunkees, like they are often perceived as so by the public.
It’s a few hours before Black Friday on November 27, and Major Doug Reynolds briefs his staff, saying he wants no stampedes from the early shoppers, part of the record 185,000 shoppers to hit this retail venue the day after Thanksgiving. Many are hoping to win a $5,000 shopping spree. The security staff has to be on the lookout for people doing banned things, like dancing, doing handstands, trying out their flying helicopters, etc. Sgt. Hines has to ask one patron to stop acting up twice on the Season 1, Episode 1 premiere of Mall Cops: Mall of America.
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canadiens
April 24, 2010 by Trend PK
Filed under World News
Montreal goaltender returns to action and turns back 37 shots in 2-1 win over Washington It hardly seemed like typical provincial relations, but Quebec decided to follow Ontario’s lead in the quest to keep a Canadian team moving on in the Stanley Cup playoffs.
The Montreal Canadiens, down three games to one against Alexander Ovechkin and the Washington Capitals, said they were taking inspiration from the Ottawa Senators, who were down the same to the Pittsburgh Penguins but had somehow found victory the night before in the third overtime.
“It took them two games [Thursday] to beat Pittsburgh,” said Montreal forward Mike Cammalleri, “but they did.”
The Senators had been given little chance in Pittsburgh; the Canadiens had similar prospects in Washington – and yet they came out in a modern version of the old Flying Frenchmen and never touched down until they, too, had won the fifth game of their series, in this case a 2-1 victory over the Capitals.
The hero of this moment was not, however, the Montreal goal scorers, but goaltender Jaroslav Halak, who stopped 37 shots and was simply brilliant in the third period. During one Washington power play, Halak first stopped Alexander Semin on a point-blank opportunity and then deftly slipped to his left to deny Tomas Fleischmann what seemed a sure Washington goal.
Minutes later, he had a save off Ovechkin when it seemed the Washington captain had a lower corner picked.
The vaunted Washington scoring machine now has scored all of one goal in its last 24 power-play opportunities.
“We have to score on the power play,” said Ovechkin after the game. “We had lots of chances.
“Our top guys have got to score goals.”
Thanks to a silly too-many-men-on-the-ice penalty to the Capitals with only a minute left in the game, Halak had some welcome help as he held off the final furious attempts of the east’s top team. Even with goaltender Semyon Varlamov – who was himself excellent, stopping 26 of 28 shots – pulled for one more forward, Washington could not solve Halak.
That bench penalty for too many men on the ice is fast becoming a factor this spring, as hardly a game passes without one or two being called.
When they first skated out, the much-smaller Canadiens looked like an optical illusion on the Verizon Center ice – sort of a hockey equivalent of Brad Pitt in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button – but they took the game so hard to the larger Capitals that speed and determination more than compensated for size and superior skill.
Washington’s Mike Knuble had warned that the Canadiens were going to be playing “for their season” and they were – desperate to prolong this series at least one more game. The two teams will meet in Game 6 Monday in Montreal.
It was Cammalleri who began matters less than two minutes into the game when he took a seeing-eye backhand pass from Andrei Markov and fired a hard wrist shot past the blocker of Varlamov for his third goal of the postseason.
Cammalleri had told reporters that a first goal would be “a little bit of an uplift” for his team, and it most assuredly was.
Shaun White Olympics 2010 video
Shaun White Olympics 2010 video, 2010 Olympics can’t get any better than the Flying Tomato. Promising to do his best for Team USA the Tomato gave it some air and did an insane run on the Olympic halfpipe.
The snowboarder played it safe on his first run, getting a solid first place score only to over top himself with a final 48.4 score from the second run and a win for him. Accepting the Gold may be the easiest thing he has done in a long time.
In continuous practice at his private halfpipe in Colorado called ‘X’ this Olympic athlete knows that it is now time to party. The near perfect score of 48.4 means he can once again claim to fame the sport and all the moves he has designed to go with it.
Shaun White Olympics 2010 video was first posted on February 18, 2010 at 4:42 pm.
PM Gilani, Gen Kayani Offer Namaz-e-Janaza of Blast Martyrs
Rawalpindi, Pakistan News: Four army officials, who were martyred in yesterday’s attack in Parade Lane Mosque of Rawalpindi Cantt, have been laid to rest in their ancestor cities on Saturday while Maj. Gen. Bilal Umer’s Namaz-e-Janaza was offered in Rawalpindi.
Namaz-e-Janaza of Maj. Gen. Bilal Umer, Corps Commander Peshawar Lieutenant Gen. Masood Aslam’s son Hashim Mehmood and Brig. Mumtaz’s son Waleed Mumtaz was offered in Chaklala Garrison Rawalpindi which was attended by Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani, Army Chief Ashfaque Pervaiz Kayani, Governor NWFP Owais Ghani, Chief Minister Ameer Haider Hoti and other VVIPs.
Namaz-e-Janaza of Colonel Shabbir’s son Ali Hassan, Brig. (R) Sadiq’s son Saad and Naek (R) Abid was offered in Racecourse Park Rawalpindi and then they laid to rest in different areas. Lt. Colonel Manzoor laid to rest in his ancestor city Madain. Maj. (R) Muhammad Shoaib laid to rest in Lahore. His Namaz-e-Janaza was offered in Garden Town graveyard.
Namaz-e-Janaza of Lt. Col. Fakhrul Hassan and his two sons Flying Officer Minhasul Hassan and Sa’adul Hassan was offered in Cavalry Ground Lahore. Namaz-e-Janaza of Col. Farooq Awan’s father Muhammad Anwar Awan was offered in Model Colony Karachi. He was laid to rest in Model Colony graveyard. Maj. Zahid Mehmood Qureshi was laid to rest in Kallar Sayyadan Road Shah Bagh in Rawat while Brig. Abdur Rauf was laid to rest in village 14-D in Renala Khord.
Lance Naek Abdur Rehman laid to rest in Mianwali while army official Muhammad Arshad laid to Malakwal. Namaz-e-Janaza of Col. (R) Muheeb Athar’s son Hafiz Hazaifa Durrani was offered at Shami Road Peshawar.
PM Gilani, Gen Kayani Offer Namaz-e-Janaza of Blast Martyrs was first posted on December 5, 2009 at 6:10 pm.
