At least 11 people, eight of them from one family, were killed when a passenger train rammed into a van at an unmanned railway crossing in Pakistan’s southern Sindh province. The mishap occurred near Tando Jam late Sunday night at a crossing near Allah Dino Saand railway station, with four people seriously injured in the incident. DSP Latif Pirzada said […]
» Read moreAcolony of Adelie penguins faces being wiped out after an iceberg the size of Rome became lodged in their bay. An estimated 150,000 penguins of Cape Denison in Commonwealth Bay have been killed since the iceberg measuring 1,120 square miles – larger than Luxemberg – forced them to trek 70 miles for food. The penguins used to live near a […]
» Read moreThe US-based wife of American-born Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist David Headley, one of the main conspirators of the 26/11 Mumbai attacks, and his business partner have “refused” to answer questions posed by NIA, citing a privacy clause. The agency had approached Shazia, Headley’s wife, and Raymond Sanders, his busines partner, through the US department of justice, for helping it get answers to […]
» Read morePakistan plans to seek more evidence from India, a media report said on Monday. This comes days after Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said the outcome of the investigation into the assault would be made public soon. A Pakistani Government team, which is investigating the attack, will ask the Foreign Ministry to seek more evidence from India. “The team has almost […]
» Read moreCharles Bombardier, the man behind the concept aircraft Skreemr which could travel at Mach 10, has now unveiled the Antipode, a hypersonic jet that he claims will cover the distance between London and New York in a mind-boggling 11 minutes. Bombardier, who is affiliated with the Canadian aircraft company Bombardier Inc, says the Antipode can reach Mach 24, twice the […]
» Read moreIn a fresh setback to the Mumbai attack trial, a Pakistani court has dismissed the government’s petition seeking voice samples of 26/11 mastermind Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi and six other suspects in the case. The prosecution had filed an application in the Islamabad High Court seeking voice samples of the suspects to compare it with the communication intercepted by Indian intelligence and […]
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