Tag: Space

The Film Industry Committee held a meeting Wednesday at the Al Hamra Arts Council, once more with the agenda of flaying the screening of...

The litigants, lawyers and court staff who come to the district courts in vehicles face an acute problem because of lack of a proper...

Pakistan’s current account balance is likely to come under strain again as foreign financing is proving insufficient to meet increasing military and rehabilitation needs....

Russia has grounded its Soyuz rockets after a space ship carrying tonnes of cargo for the International Space Station (ISS) crashed into Siberia shortly...

Crammed parking spaces in Islamabad need the attention of the Capital Development Authority (CDA) as a lack of parking spaces is not only adversely...

The US shuttle Atlantis has undocked from the International Space Station and is bound now for a final landing at the Kennedy Space Center....

The astronauts on NASA’s final space shuttle flight got cracking Monday on all their supply delivery work, successfully hoisting a giant trunk out of...

Space shuttle Atlantis thundered off its seaside launch pad on Friday, rising atop a tower of smoke and flames as it left Earth on...

The US space shuttle Endeavour was on its way back to Earth on Monday after undocking from the International Space Station on its final...

Astronauts installed a massive physics experiment at the International Space Station on Thursday, the fourth day of the US shuttle Endeavour’s 16-day mission to...

The space shuttle Endeavour blasted off Monday toward the International Space Station on the penultimate flight for the US shuttle program. “We want to...

Tassaduq Sohail was born in Jalandhar in 1930 and studied at London-based Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design. Sohail had been living in...

LAHORE - A pangolin was caught by the Rescue 1122 team in an urban area of Lahore on Saturday. The Lahore Zoo and the WWF did not take the animal in, Pakistan Today has learnt. Dr Saman Bhatti, veterinary officer of the zoo, said the animal was a scaly cousin from the anteater family. "It was fine health-wise so I advised the rescue team to leave it in a forest far from the city where it could feed itself naturally. Also it cannot be kept in the zoo because it digs deep and it would

KARACHI - Two young men donning blue caps entered the Artillery Maidan Park near the Sindh Governor House on Sunday, some two hours before their friends arrived. As on a typical Sunday afternoon, young men were busy playing cricket, older citizens were playing cards, and some were jogging to loose weight. No one noticed them.
Slowly but surely, after the two men informed their friends over cell phones that security was adequate, other blue cap-donning men started arriving at the

KARACHI - PPP Co-chairman and President Asif Ali Zardari has said that some people were working to "take away our political space", calling it against the 18th Amendment and in view of the Senate election in March next year.
Chairing a meeting of the PPP Sindh parliamentary committee on Saturday, Zardari said he had convened the meeting to discuss the country's immediate issues and the challenges faced by the federation and the province.The president said he had sent a written

MOSCOW - President Dmitry Medvedev on Wednesday fired two top space officials and reprimanded the space agency chief after a launch failure caused Russia to delay the deployment of its own navigation system.
This month's failed launch of three Glonass-M orbiters marked a humiliating setback to the country's efforts to introduce a global rival to the US Global Positioning System.
A presidential statement said Energia Vice President Vyacheslav Filin and Roskosmos deputy head

US Air Force's X-37B reported missing again
Last seen 'in orbit over landing base'
Missing since October 7
Has the US Air Force landed its secret space plane? The X-37B has been orbiting the Earth for 173 days since its launch on April 22.
An unmanned vehicle with unknown intent, it's captured the imagination of sky-watchers, military experts and conspiracy theorists worldwide.
It has the payload of a medium-sized truck, so maybe its purpose is to ferry spy