Saturday, 31 July 2010
Pakistan mourns in crash aftermath PDF Print E-mail
Friday, 30 July 2010 00:00
 
 

Every time the automatic doors at the outpatient ward of Islamabad's main hospital slid open, they revealed a thick white mist lingering inside.

The ward had been turned into a makeshift morgue Thursday for the victims of the plane crash outside Islamabad a day earlier.

The mist was a disinfectant used to kill the odor and airborne germs from dozens of remains that were being stored inside.

Recovery crews ended the search for bodies in the hills north of the capital on Thursday where the Airblue Airbus A321 went down, government officials told CNN.

 

Ramzan Sajid, a local official in Islamabad, said 130 bodies were recovered from the crash site and delivered to several nearby hospitals."Not a single body was intact," Sajid said.

Amir Ali, another local official in Islamabad, told CNN 66 bodies had been identified by Thursday night. He said hospital officials were taking on the grim task of matching body parts to identify 22 passengers who are still unaccounted for.

Bodies mutilated beyond recognition will have to be identified with DNA tests and blood samples from relatives, Ali said.

Scores of grief-stricken Pakistanis arrived at Islamabad's hospitals looking for their loved ones' remains. "Our family members are depressed," said a teary-eyed Fayyaz Hussain Shah, who identified the remains of his brother.

"My brother's wife and her children are consoling each other, but it will take ages to get things back to normal." Once remains are identified they are placed in wooden coffins and delivered to families. As it is customary in Islam to bury the dead as soon as possible, many families drove directly to cemeteries.

At the crash site crews fought through a second day of monsoon rains and rough terrain to look for the plane's flight data and voice recorders. Investigators say they'll need the recorders to find out why a relatively new plane, piloted by someone with 35 years of flying experience, suddenly crashed.

 
Last Updated ( Friday, 30 July 2010 10:45 )
 
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Facebook data harvester speaks out PDF Print E-mail
Saturday, 27 September 2008 00:00
 
 The man who harvested and published the personal details of 100m Facebook users has spoken out about his motives.

Ron Bowes, a security consultant, used a piece of code to scan Facebook profiles, collecting data not hidden by the user's privacy settings.

The list, which contains the URL of every searchable Facebook user's profile, name and unique ID, has been shared as a downloadable file.

Mr Bowes told BBC News that he did it as part of his work on a security tool.

"I'm a developer for the Nmap Security Scanner and one of our recent tools is called Ncrack," he said.
 The man who harvested and published the personal details of 100m Facebook users has spoken out about his motives.

Ron Bowes, a security consultant, used a piece of code to scan Facebook profiles, collecting data not hidden by the user's privacy settings.

The list, which contains the URL of every searchable Facebook user's profile, name and unique ID, has been shared as a downloadable file.

Mr Bowes told BBC News that he did it as part of his work on a security tool.

"I'm a developer for the Nmap Security Scanner and one of our recent tools is called Ncrack," he said.

Mr Bowes confirmed that all the data he harvested was already publicly available but acknowledged that if anyone now changed their privacy settings, their information would still be accessible.

"If 100,000 Facebook users decide that they no longer want to be in Facebook's directory, I would still have their name and URL but it would no longer, technically, be public," he said.


 
Last Updated ( Friday, 30 July 2010 12:20 )
 
Magnanimous Raina gifts sports car to first coach PDF Print E-mail
Friday, 30 July 2010 00:00
 
 Suresh Raina who scored a century on his Test debut at SSC grounds in Colombo on Thursday is a man who remembers his beginnings.

The exciting left hander who had to wait for more than five years as a regular in the Indian ODI side before finally earning his Test cap, had gifted his coach with a car as a mark of gratitude.

His coach Sat Pal Krishan better known as S.P.Krishan revealed that Raina gifted him recently with a gold-colour Hyundai I 10 Sportz car as a mark of gratitude.

"Suresh Raina is very close to our family. He has liberty to enter our kitchen at any time.” Said Krishan.
 

Talking more about the gift he received, Krishan added “He wanted to gift Suzuki Swift car to my daughter as a wedding gift, but my daughter refused to accept such an expensive gift,”

But he was adamant and ultimately made all possible arrangement and ordered (with Hyundai) in Punjab to deliver a brand new car to me recently" added Krishan.

Raina’s magnanimous respect had run deeper towards the coach. "Raina also offered to foot all the medical expenses when my wife, Anu Viz was admitted to the hospital for severe heart attack, but we politely declined it" the coach said.

The youngest in a family of five children, Raina decided to take up cricket seriously in 1999, and moved from his home town of Ghaziabad, near New Delhi to Lucknow, the capital of Uttar Pradesh, to attend the specialist government Sports College, where he came across coach Krishan.

Raina had a difficult start to his  international career, being dismissed for a golden duck by a doosra from Muttiah Muralitharan but he never lost hope to be consistent.

 
Last Updated ( Friday, 30 July 2010 11:25 )
 
By Ajith Lal Shantha Udaya and P.A.K Wijesundara PDF Print E-mail
Friday, 30 July 2010 00:00

President Mahinda Rajapakse stated that the public should take a stand and ‘do their duty’ towards the country instead of expecting the government ‘to do everything’. He made the comments with regard to the dengue situation prevailing in the country.

The President was speaking at the opening ceremony of the Maternity and Children’s Ward of the Ratnapura General Hospital this morning,

President Rajapakse said, “People should do their duty towards the country. They should take measures to clean their gardens and then we can eliminate this dangerous situation. The government can’t handle this situation on its own. We have to do this with the assistance of the public. Meanwhile we will also take measures to import medicine, dengue eradicating bacteria from other countries.” (Daily Mirror online)

 

Last Updated ( Friday, 30 July 2010 10:16 )
 
Kalpitiya gets geared to the growing Tourist Industry PDF Print E-mail
Monday, 26 July 2010 00:00
Tourist sector investors are getting moved in to the Kalpitiya Tourist Zone, which is one of the high-end tourist Zones the government envisages to develop to facilitate the growing tourist industry. It is expected to have at least 30 tourist projects in the Kalpitiya Zone. Eight projects in an extent of 5,000 acres in Kalpitiya have already started the mobilising process.

All the projects will be environment friendly and will be green hotels dedicated to cater to leisure activities.

According to Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority, they have been able to get the lands owned by the Government that were not inhabited by fishermen in the hope of creating 5,000 rooms. These rooms will supplement the 35,000 total rooms in the country by 2015.

Tourist Authority sources said 2,000 rooms will become available by the end of 2012. More than one million tourists are expected in the Kalpitiya Zone after the development of the entire resort, which will be featured with beaches, diving, fishing and sun-bathing facilities.

Courtesy : Government Information Department
Last Updated ( Monday, 26 July 2010 08:20 )
 

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