Flight, Rail Schedule Disturbed Due to fog

In Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the schedules of flights and railways have been severely disrupted due to dense fog. Three flights of PIA were cancelled due to bad weather and zero visibility.

According to PIA officials, flight from Peshawar to Karachi PK351 was cancelled due to bad weather. While other flights such as Karachi to Moen Ja Daro, Moen Jo Daro to Sukkur and Sukkur to Karachi were also cancelled due to bad weather conditions; where as some domestic flights are also being delayed. On the other side, the railway schedule is also disrupted and trains are being delayed for several hours causing problems for the passengers.

Last rescuer emerges from Chile mine escape shaft

COPIAPO: The last rescue specialist involved in the extraction of 33 miners trapped for more than two months in a Chilean mine was lifted to safety early on Thursday, ending a 69-day saga that captured theworld’s attention.

All of Chile’s 33 trapped miners were rescued on Wednesday after a two-month ordeal inside acollapsed copper and gold mine in Chile’s northern Atacama desert.

Here is a timeline of the ordeal, one of the greatest mining accidents in Chile’s history.

Aug. 5 – A cave-in leaves 33 miners trapped about 2,050 feet (625 metres) vertically underground in a small copper-and-gold mine near the northern Chilean city of Copiapo, 500 miles (800 km) north of Santiago.

The mine’s owners, local private company Compania Minera San Esteban Primera, notifies authorities several hours later, saying they first had to evaluate the

ADB to invest $40m in energy sector

ISLAMABAD: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will spend $40 million in Pakistan to promote energy-saving light bulbs, the bank said on Thursday, as the country struggles to ease chronic power cuts.

Pakistan is facing a shortfall of between 4,000 and 5,000 MW of power after water levels fell sharply at two major dams and is forced to cut power supplies for several hours a day, angering the public.

Under the agreement, the first tranche of the loan will be used to promote energy efficiency with the use of cost-effective compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs) projects, the bank said.

The project would help reduce power demand by 1,100 MW and ease the power cuts, said Rune Stroem, the bank”s country director in Pakistan.

“Energy efficiency is a strategic priority, and is the quickest way of bridging the energy gap,” he said in a statement.

Thirty million high-quality energy-saving light bulbs will be distributed free to residents nationwide, the bank said.

The ADB investment is part of $1.18 billion loan for a 10-year energy efficiency investment programme for Pakistan.

Last year, the bank approved $780 million out of the multi-tranche facility.

Court orders to register case against Asif

LAHORE: A local court ordered to register case against cricketer Muhammed Asif on the plea by actress Veena Malik, Geo News reported Tuesday.

Veena Malik requested a local court to jump-start legal action against Asif for giving her fake cheque.

Malik said in her p lea that Asif took from her money worth over Rs10 million and the cheque he gave her to return the money, turned out to be fake.

The local bank confirmed the same. On this, Additional Session Judge Khalid Bashir ordered to register case against the Cricketer.

The orders were given to file a case in Ghalib Market area of Gulberg.

Ohio State Shooting, Ohio State University Shooting

Ohio State University says a worker suspected in a deadly campus shooting has died.

A new Ohio State University custodial employee who received a bad job evaluation shot two co-workers in a campus-maintenance building, killing one of them, and then fatally shot himself, officials said Tuesday.

No students were hurt and classes went on as scheduled.

The shooting was first reported at 3:30 a.m. Tuesday. Mr. Brown, 51 years old, was pronounced dead at Ohio State University Medical Center several hours later, Mr. Denton said.

One of the victims, building-services manager Larry Wallington, 48, died at the scene. The other victim, operations-shift leader Henry Butler, 60, was in stable condition at Ohio University Medical Center, officials said.

Thai court seizes Thaksin assets

Thailand’s Supreme Court rules it will seize $1.4bn of $2.3bn in contested assets belonging to the family of former PM Thaksin Shinawatra.

The funds were frozen after Mr Thaksin’s elected government was overthrown in a military coup in 2006.

Mr Thaksin, who is living abroad, has denied any wrongdoing.

The amount seized by the court is more than half of the $2.3bn that prosecutors had demanded.

It was not yet clear if the outstanding $900m will be returned to Mr Thaksin.

The court took several hours to deliver its verdict, with security forces on high alert amid government predictions of violence by Mr Thaksin’s red-shirted supporters if the court decision went against him.

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Thai court seizes Thaksin assets was first posted on February 26, 2010 at 7:10 pm.

Dirk Nowitzki’s Game-Winning Shot (VIDEO)

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Josh Cribbs Injury: Injured Cribbs Hurt On Final Play

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Barack Obama and Hu Jintao Yield Few Agreements

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Authorize.net Down, E-Commerce site

Authorize.net Down, Payment gateway service provider Authorize.net has been down and out for several hours, a number of tipsters inform us. That has big implications: since the service is used by tens of thousands of e-commerce vendors to accept credit card and electronic checks payments on their websites , means millions are being lost during its downtime.

It’s unclear when the downtime started exactly, but the consensus is somewhere between 5 and 7 hours at this point (11 AM Eastern), with e-commerce vendors desperately looking for ways to contact the company or get any first-hand information about what’s going on and when the problems will be resolved.

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