Islamabad, Oct 22: Shaukat Tareen, the Pakistan Prime Minister’s Financial Adviser, has said that his country needed five billion dollars from multilateral lenders and friendly countries to avert the impending balance of payments (BoP) crisis.
He said the PPP-led federal government had estimated that it would need an amount ranging between 3.4 and 4.5 billion dollars, but multilateral lenders had assessed the country would need five billion dollars to bridge the gap in the balance of payments.
“I never said that Pakistan is seeking 10-15 billion dollars assistance from multilateral lenders, including the IMF,” the Dawn quoted him as saying.
High Court gave its ruling where it cancelled the marriage of a 29 year old Sikh woman who was coerced to marry by her in-laws after the death of her husband. The jurisdiction was given pronounced by Justice Parker.
The Sikh woman was kidnapped by the family of her husband when she went back to India to attend the funeral of her husband. Two and a half weeks after the demise of her husband, she was forced to marry her father-in-law’s nephew. Her husband was killed in a car accident in India where she went and was given sedative pills and injected with drug by her in laws as she refused to obey their demand to marry again.
The upcoming animation film ‘Roadside Romeo’, a Jugal Hansraj’s venture is inspired from the stray dogs he encountered on Mumbai streets. It will be the first time that a mainstream three dimensional animation movie is made in Bollywood.
The movie which is due to hit the theatres this Friday is co-produced by Yash Raj Films (YRF) Studio and Hollywood studio Walt Disney Co while it has been visualized, executed and delivered by a 150-member team of Tata group's Tech arm Tata Elxsi.
Munich, Oct 22: The European Southern Observatory (ESO) has captured an image that shows a vast stellar nursery, in the centre of which is a small cluster of stars that has been found to be the home of one of the most massive double star systems known to astronomers.
Known by the name of Gum 29, it is a huge region of hydrogen gas that has been stripped of its electrons (ionised) by the intense radiation of the hot young stars located at its centre.
Astronomers call this an HII (pronounced “H-two”) region, and this particularly stunning example stretches out across space for over
200 light-years.
London, Oct 22 : For the first time in nearly 20 years, an Italian airliner pilot has opened up about a near miss with a UFO after a record of the encounter was released by the Ministry of Defence in London.
Captain Achille Zaghetti, who lives in Grosseto, Tuscany, was flying from Milan to Heathrow when he and his co-pilot saw a mysterious khaki-coloured, missile-shaped object streaking across the sky above the Kent countryside.
While recalling the incident that occurred over Lydd, Kent, in 1991, Zaghetti revealed that the 10ft-long UFO came so close to the airliner that he shouted "Look out! Look out!" to his co-pilot, who also spotted the object.
Berlin, Oct 22: A team of archaeologists, scientists and software programmers has created a 3D virtual model of the city of Cologne as it was 2,000 years ago, which would enable visitors to virtually fly through the city.
According to a report in Spiegel Online, the new computer program will allow the curious to see Cologne, Germany’s fourth-largest city, as it was almost 2,000 years ago, when it was a major northern outpost of the Roman Empire.
“Now, for the first time, people will be able to visualize what an amazing city Cologne already was in antiquity,” said Hansgerd Hellenkemper, the director of the city’s Romano-Germanic Museum.
The upcoming animation film ‘Roadside Romeo’, a Jugal Hansraj’s venture is inspired from the stray dogs he encountered on Mumbai streets. It will be the first time that a mainstream three dimensional animation movie is made in Bollywood.
