Gaza rockets rain down after Israeli brutality
August 21, 2011 by Trend PK
Filed under Breaking News
Fighters fired over 20 rockets into Israel and the air force hit targets near Gaza City, a day after a rocket killed an Israel.
In what was the first air strike since Saturday afternoon, the Israeli air force fired at a target near BeitLahiya, just north of Gaza City, seriously wounding a 12-year-old boy, medical sources said.
Gaza security sources said militants from the Popular Resistance Committees (PRC) had earlier been seen firing medium-range Grad rockets into southern Israel from the same area.
Tensions in and around the Gaza Strip have soared since Thursday when militants staged a series of bloody shooting attacks in the Negev desert, killing eight Israelis and prompting a wave of bloody tit-for-tat exchanges.
It also sparked a diplomatic crisis with Egypt after Cairo said five policemen were killed by Israeli fire as soldiers pursued gunmen involved in the Negev ambushes.
Israel blamed Gaza s Popular Resistance Committees for the bloodshed and in retaliatory air strikes has killed 15 Palestinians, including seven PRC militants and two from Islamic Jihad s armed wing.
Another 48 people have been injured, half of them women and children, medics said.
In the same period, militants have fired more than 100 rockets and mortars at Israeli towns and cities in the south, killing one and injuring dozens more, one critically.
Three illegal Palestinian workers sleeping rough near Ashdod were also injured by rocket fire from Gaza on Saturday, two of them seriously.
On Saturday night, rockets ploughed into Beersheva, which lies some 40 kilometres (24 miles) from Gaza, killing a man and injuring 15, one critically, Israeli medics said.
Turkish rental power plant reaches Karachi
November 18, 2010 by Trend PK
Filed under World News
Staff Report
KARACHI: A Turkish rental power plant has reached, through a ship, at Karachi Port on Thursday.
According to details, this rental power plant has been acquired under a five years’ contract by the Government of Pakistan.
This ship installed power plant will remain docked at Karachi Port and from the same place it will supply 250 mega watts daily to Karachi Electric Supply Corporation (KESC) through WAPDA.
The official opening of the plant will be done by the Federal Water and Power Minister, Raja Parvez Ashraf. Trend Pk
India’s Prithvi-II missile fails to take off
India’s nuclear capable Prithvi-II ballistic missile failed to take off during a user trial from the Integrated Test Range (ITR) at Chandipur on sea, off the Orissa coast on Friday.
The test-fire was held as a part of user’s trial by the armed forces. According to defence sources, the failure to lift Prithvi-II was due to a snag either in the main missile or the sub-system, including the launcher.
The last four user’s trials of the surface-to-surface missile were successfully conducted during the about one year period, from the same site in the ITR. The last trial was conducted on June 18.
The Prithvi -II has a strike range of 350 km and a two stage engine. It is nine metres long and a metre wide and can carry a payload of 500 kilograms.
It has already been inducted into Indian armed forces. It is equipped with an advanced inertial navigation system and has features to deceive anti-ballistic missiles.
India launches 5 satellites into orbit
July 12, 2010 by Trend PK
Filed under World News
BANGALORE: India successfully launched five satellites into orbit on Monday, three months after the country”s space ambitions suffered a setback when a rocket crashed at lift-off.
The five satellites included an advanced remote sensing satellite called Cartosat-2B, as well as a satellite from Algeria.
Three other smaller experimental devices from India, Canada and Switzerland were also released.
“The rocket deployed the five satellites in the intended polar orbits after a textbook launch from the spaceport under perfect weather conditions,” Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) director S. Satish told a foreign news agency.
The launch site was at Sriharikota, about 80 kilometres (50 miles) northeast of Chennai. In April an Indian rocket showcasing domestically-built booster technology crashed soon after lift-off from the same site.
The first Indian-made cryogenic powered rocket, a complex technology mastered by just five countries, fell into the Bay of Bengal due to a component failure.
India aims to launch its first manned space mission in 2016 and wants to grab a larger share of the multi-billion-dollar market for launching commercial satellites.
Last August India”s first unmanned moon mission, launched amid much fanfare in 2008, came to an abrupt end when controllers lost contact with the craft.
But gloom turned to delight in September when data collected from the mission showed water on the moon, boosting India”s credibility.
India began its space programme in 1963 and has developed its own satellites and launch vehicles to cut dependence on other countries.
misogynist
April 21, 2010 by Trend PK
Filed under World News
Misogyny is hatred (or contempt) of women or girls. Misogyny comes from Greek misogunia from misos (hatred) and gyn? (woman). It is parallel to misandry—the hatred of men or boys. Misogyny is also comparable with (but not the same as) misanthropy which is the hatred of humanity in general. The prefix miso, meaning hatred or to hate applies in other words, such as misandrist and misogamy.
An example of correct use, from the same period is:
He … walked the banks apart, a thing of misogyny, in a suit of flannel.
—Herman Charles Merivale, Faucit of Balliol, 1882
A clearer example of the sense, also from the same era but using the noun misogynist, is provided by Thackeray.
Confound all women, I say, muttered the young misogynist.
—William Makepeace Thackeray, The Virginians, 1878
China posts first monthly trade deficit in six years
BEIJING: China said Saturday it posted its first monthly trade deficit in six years in March, at 7.2 billion dollars, in news that was likely to bolster Beijing”s argument for a low yuan.
Customs authorities also said China”s exports rose 24.3 percent in March to 112.1 billion dollars from the same month a year earlier, and imports soared 66 percent year-on-year to 119.3 billion dollars.
Commerce minister Chen Deming had already laid the ground for the news, warning last month that the nation”s export-dependent economy was likely to experience a trade deficit in March.
However he said it would only be a short-lived phenomenon, according to remarks published by a local news agency on Friday.
The news of the deficit comes amid growing international pressure for the yuan — China”s currency — to appreciate.
Critics say the Chinese government has kept the currency low to boost exports, resulting in massive trade surpluses with the United States and Europe.
But China has defended its exchange rate policy as necessary for the survival of Chinese manufacturers and supporting jobs growth, and last month”s deficit was likely to bolster that argument.
Beijing has tried to play down expectations for a strong pick-up in exports this year, with Chen saying last month that it could take up to three years to return to pre-financial crisis levels.
Land dispute claims 4 lives in Sheikhupura
SHEIKHUPURA: Four people, including a woman, were gunned down on Tuesday in Sharqpur tehsil of Sheikhupura due to some old dispute.
The police registered a case against 13 accused named in the killings.
According to police, a local armed Mustafa Group forcefully entered the house of its rival Farman Group and opened indiscriminate firing on the people present there. As a result, four people were killed.
The victims were identified as Muhammad Aslam Bhatti, Akram Bhatti, Amar Bhatti and Nazia BB.
The police said that a six-year-old land dispute between the two groups was the real motive behind the killings. The same dispute had taken lives of some 50 people of a group, police said.
The police shifted the bodies to a local hospital for carrying out postmortem.
It said the alleged gunmen had fled the scene but hoped that they would be arrested soon.
Nawaz played puppet on Constitutional package: Munawar
BUREWALA: Amir Jamaat-e-Islmai (JI) Munawar Hassan has alleged that Nawaz Sharif has been taking a dictation and played a puppet’s role in connection with the Constitutional package.
He was addressing public meeting held in connection with Seerat-un-Nabi (SAW) here on Tuesday.
“Nawaz Sharif, on the directives of some elements, first raised objections and later agreed on dictation from the same elements,” Munawar Hassan claimed.
He said the murderers of Ms Benazir Bhutto be brought presented to the people before reopening the (Zulfiqar Ali) Bhutto case.
“How could the man who, despite being the president of the country failed to nab the assassins of her wife, will be able to serve the nation?” he asked.
He said the Government, instead of implementing the court verdict on NRO, is adopting a policy of clash with the judiciary aimed to provide protection to the thieves and plunderers.
Israeli, Iranian Ministers Share a Rare Handshake
January 21, 2010 by Trend PK
Filed under World News
Israeli, Iranian Ministers Share a Rare Handshake, Israeli and Iranian ministers exchanged a rare handshake while attending a fair to promote tourist destinations in their respective nations.
The Israeli and Iranian tourism ministers were introduced at a reception hosted by the Spanish king in honor of a Madrid tourism fair. They then proceeded to shake hands. “We are both from the same region and tourism can serve as a bridge for dialogue and to wider understanding,” Mezeshnikov told his Iranian counterpart, his spokesman.
Israeli, Iranian Ministers Share a Rare Handshake was first posted on January 21, 2010 at 7:36 pm.
Google Profit Falls For 1st Time
December 4, 2009 by Trend PK
Filed under Technology
Google posted the first-ever decline in its quarterly earnings Thursday but still beat market expectations in the withering economic climate.
The web search giant said that it earned 382 million dollars, or 1.21 dollars per share, in the three months ending in December – a drop of 68 per cent from the same period in 2007. But the profit was hit by a 1.5-billion-dollar charge for write downs on investments like AOL and Clearwire and the cost of issuing new stock options to employees whose existing warrants were below the company’s share price.
Revenue increased 18 per cent to 5.7 billion dollars, or 4.2 billion dollars once payments that Google makes to its ad partners were taken into account.
“Our business is quite healthy, especially given the economic climate,” Google chief executive and Chairman Eric Schmidt said.
He warned that the company was heading into “uncharted territory” as conditions could worsen in the shrinking US economy.
“We don’t know how long this period will last,” Schmidt told analysts in a conference call. “We obviously hope it will be short. We’re certainly prepared to get through this, no problem.”
Shares of Google rose more than 2 per cent in after-hours trading to 312.75 dollars, following the earnings announcement.
Google Profit Falls For 1st Time was first posted on January 23, 2009 at 10:06 am.
