Friday, October 3, 2014

ਜੈੱਟ ਏਅਰਵੇਜ਼ ਦੀ ਪਾਇਲਟ ਨੇ ਆਸਮਾਨ 'ਚ ਦੇਖੀ 'ਏਲੀਅਨਾਂ ਦੀ ਗੱਡੀ'

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ਜੈੱਟ ਏਅਰਵੇਜ਼ ਦੀ ਪਾਇਲਟ ਨੇ ਆਸਮਾਨ 'ਚ ਦੇਖੀ 'ਏਲੀਅਨਾਂ ਦੀ ਗੱਡੀ'

ਅਹਿਮਦਾਬਾਦ— ਜੈੱਟ ਏਅਰਵੇਜ਼ ਦੀ ਪਾਇਲਟ ਨੇ ਦਾਅਵਾ ਕੀਤਾ ਹੈ ਕਿ ਸ਼ੁੱਕਰਵਾਰ ਨੂੰ ਆਸਮਾਨ ਵਿਚ ਉਡਾਣ ਭਰਦੇ ਸਮੇਂ ਉਸ ਨੇ 'ਏਲੀਅਨਾਂ ਦੀ ਗੱਡੀ' ਅਰਥਾਤ ਉਡਣ ਤਸ਼ਤਰੀ ਦੇਖੀ। ਪਾਇਲਟ ਨੇ ਦਾਅਵਾ
ਕੀਤਾ ਹੈ ਕਿ ਇਹ ਉਡਣ ਤਸ਼ਤਰੀ ਲਗਭਗ 26.300 ਫੁੱਟ ਦੀ ਉੱਚਾਈ 'ਤੇ 310 ਡਿਗਰੀ ਦੇ ਕੋਣ ਨਾ ਉੱਡ ਰਹੀ ਸੀ ਤੇ ਇਸ ਦਾ ਰੰਗ ਹਰਾ ਤੇ ਚਿੱਟਾ ਸੀ।
ਏਅਰਪੋਰਟ ਦੇ ਸੂਤਰਾਂ ਮੁਤਾਬਕ ਚੈਨਈ ਦੀ ਪਾਇਲਟ ਮਹਿਮਾ ਚੌਧਰੀ ਦੀ ਜੈੱਟ ਏਅਰਵੇਜ਼ ਦੀ ਫਲਾਈਟ 249 ਨੂੰ ਲੈ ਕੇ ਪੁਣੇ ਤੋਂ ਅਹਿਮਦਾਬਾਦ ਲਈ ਰਵਾਨਾ ਹੋਈ ਸੀ। ਇਸ ਦੌਰਾਨ ਆਸਮਾਨ ਵਿਚ ਉਡਣ ਤਸ਼ਤਰੀ ਦੇਖਣ ਤੋਂ ਬਾਅਦ ਉਸ ਨੇ ਮੁੰਬਈ ਏਅਰ ਟਰੈਫਿਕ ਕੰਟਰੋਲ ਦੇ ਸੁਪਰਵਾਇਜ਼ਰੀ ਅਫਸਰ ਨੂੰ ਇਸ ਦੀ ਜਾਣਕਾਰੀ ਦਿੱਤੀ। ਦੱਸਿਆ ਜਾ ਰਿਹਾ ਹੈ ਕਿ ਇਹ ਉਡਣ ਤਸ਼ਤਰੀ ਪੁਣੇ ਤੋਂ 68 ਨਾਟੀਕਲ ਮਾਈਲਸ ਦੀ ਉੱਚਾਈ 'ਤੇ ਦੇਖੀ ਗਈ।
ਇਹ ਪਹਿਲਾ ਮੌਕਾ ਨਹੀਂ ਹੈ ਜਦੋਂ ਆਸਮਾਨ ਵਿਚ ਯੂ. ਐੱਫ. ਓ. ਯਾਨੀ ਉਡਣ ਤਸ਼ਤਰੀ ਦਿਖਾਈ ਦਿੱਤੀ ਹੈ। ਇਸ ਤੋਂ ਪਹਿਲਾਂ ਇਸੇ ਸਾਲ ਜੁਲਾਈ ਵਿਚ ਅਮਿਤ ਤਿਰਪਾਠੀ ਨਾਂ ਦੇ ਵਿਅਕਤੀ ਨੇ ਆਪਣੀ ਬਾਲਕਨੀ ਤੋਂ ਇਕ ਉਡਣ ਤਸ਼ਤਰੀ ਦੇਖੀ ਸੀ ਅਤੇ ਆਪਣੇ ਮੋਬਾਈਲ ਵਿਚ ਉਸ ਦੀਆਂ ਤਸਵੀਰਾਂ ਵੀ ਕੈਦ ਕੀਤੀਆਂ ਸਨ। ਉਨ੍ਹਾਂ ਦਾ ਦਾਅਵਾ ਸੀ ਕਿ ਇਹ ਉਡਣ ਤਸ਼ਤਰੀ ਕਰੀਬ 40 ਮਿੰਟਾਂ ਤੱਕ ਚਮਕਦੀ ਰਹੀ। 11 ਜੁਲਾਈ ਨੂੰ ਗੁਹਾਟੀ, 12 ਜੁਲਾਈ ਨੂੰ ਸ਼ਾਮਲੀ ਅਤੇ 14 ਜੁਲਾਈ ਨੂੰ ਟੁੰਡਲਾ ਵਿਚ ਉਡਣ ਤਸ਼ਤਰੀ ਦੇਖੇ ਜਾਣ ਦੀਆਂ ਖਬਰਾਂ ਵੀ ਆਈਆਂ ਸਨ। ਪਿਛਲੇ ਸਾਲ 4 ਅਗਸਤ ਨੂੰ ਫੌਜ ਦੀ ਇਕ ਟੁੱਕੜੀ ਨੇ ਵੀ ਲੱਦਾਖ ਦੇ ਡੈਮਚਕ ਇਲਾਕੇ ਵਿਚ ਉਡਣ ਤਸ਼ਤਰੀ ਦੇਖਣ ਦਾ ਦਾਅਵਾ ਕੀਤਾ ਸੀ।
ਲਗਾਤਾਰ ਆ ਰਹੀਆਂ ਇਨ੍ਹਾਂ ਖਬਰਾਂ ਨੇ ਇਕ ਵਾਰ ਫਿਰ ਏਲੀਅਨਾਂ ਦੀ ਖੋਜ ਸੰਬੰਧੀ ਵਿਗਿਆਨੀਆਂ ਦੀ ਉਤਸੁਕਤਾ ਜਗਾ ਦਿੱਤੀ ਹੈ। ਜੇਕਰ ਏਲੀਅਨ ਸਚਮੁੱਚ ਹੁੰਦੇ ਹਨ ਤਾਂ ਦੇਰ-ਸਵੇਰ ਇਸ ਦਾ ਪਤਾ ਲੱਗ ਹੀ ਜਾਵੇਗਾ।

HISTORY OF ITALIAN LEADER (BENITO MUSSOLINI 1883-1945)

Benito Mussolini (1883-1945)

Benito MussoliniMussolini was the founder of Fascism and leader of Italy from 1922 to 1943. He allied Italy with Nazi Germany and Japan in World War Two.

Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini was born on 29 July 1883 in Predappio in northern central Italy. His father was a blacksmith. Employment prospects in the area were poor so in 1902 Mussolini moved to Switzerland, where he became involved in socialist politics. He returned to Italy in 1904, and worked as a journalist in the socialist press, but his support for Italy's entry into World War One led to his break with socialism. He was drafted into the Italian army in September 1915.

In March 1919, Mussolini formed the Fascist Party, galvanising the support of many unemployed war veterans. He organised them into armed squads known as Black Shirts, who terrorised their political opponents. In 1921, the Fascist Party was invited to join the coalition government.

By October 1922, Italy seemed to be slipping into political chaos. The Black Shirts marched on Rome and Mussolini presented himself as the only man capable of restoring order. King Victor Emmanuel invited Mussolini to form a government. Mussolini gradually dismantled the institutions of democratic government and in 1925 made himself dictator, taking the title 'Il Duce'. He set about attempting to re-establish Italy as a great European power. The regime was held together by strong state control and Mussolini's cult of personality.

In 1935, Mussolini invaded Abyssinia (now Ethiopia) and incorporated it into his new Italian Empire. He provided military support to Franco in the Spanish Civil War. Increasing co-operation with Nazi Germany culminated in the 1939 Pact of Steel. Influenced by Hitler, Mussolini began to introduce anti-Jewish legislation in Italy. His declaration of war on Britain and France in June 1940 exposed Italian military weakness and was followed by a series of defeats in North and East Africa and the Balkans.

In July 1943, Allied troops landed in Sicily. Mussolini was overthrown and imprisoned by his former colleagues in the Fascist government. In September, Italy signed an armistice with the Allies. The German army began the occupation of Italy and Mussolini was rescued by German commandos. He was installed as the leader of a new government, but had little power. As the Allies advanced northwards through Italy, Mussolini fled towards Switzerland. He was captured by Italian partisans and shot on 28 April 1945.

Thursday, October 2, 2014

Prince William warns paparazzi against 'harassing' George

By Michael Holden

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Prince William has warned two photographers against trailing his baby son George during walks in London parks with his nanny, saying their behavior amounted to "harassment".

Lawyers acting for William, second-in-line to the throne, and his pregnant wife Kate, have written to the freelance photographers asking them to stop following George, William's office said.

It came after an incident in a central London park last week when one individual was spotted near George and his nanny.

"They are obviously concerned," a spokesman for the royal couple said. He added the men had "over a period of time established a pattern of behavior that we think amounts to harassment of Prince George and of his nanny".

"It's more the fundamental weirdness of two grown men following a 14-month-old baby around London that we're concerned about," the spokesman added.

The issue of harassment by the paparazzi is particularly sensitive for William whose mother Princess Diana was killed with her lover Dodi al-Fayed in Paris in 1997 when her limousine crashed into the wall of a tunnel as they tried to flee a posse of chasing photographers.

He has been determined to protect his family from the press.

George was born to a global media frenzy in July last year but has spent most of his life since then out of the spotlight, with only a handful of public appearances.

"They want Prince George to lead as ordinary a life as possible as a child and he obviously can't do that if people are going to parks where children play and taking pictures of him," the spokesman said.

He said they believed some pictures of George had appeared in European publications but not in Britain, where the press has exercised greater restraint since Diana's death.

However, the royals complained about harassment of Kate before the couple married in 2011. A year after their wedding, European magazines printed topless pictures of Kate taken while she was on holiday in France.View photo

Wednesday, October 1, 2014

Sea change: Satellite photos show world's fourth-largest lake disappearing

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Once-massive Aral Sea Dries Up To Almost Nothing

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The disappearing Aral Sea as seen from space. (NASA)

The Aral Sea, once the fourth-largest lake in the world, is nearly gone.

Satellite images released by NASA this week show half of the inland lake that spans the Kazakhstan-Uzbekistan border in Central Asia are almost totally dry.

"For the first time in modern history, the eastern basin of the South Aral Sea has completely dried," NASA said in a release.

The shrinking began in the 1960s, NASA reported, when the former Soviet Union started diverting the Aral Sea's snowmelt-fed water from the Syr Darya and Amu Darya rivers to irrigate the desert farms of Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and Turkmenistan.

The first satellite image, taken in 2000, shows the lake split in two, creating the Northern and Southern Aral seas. A 2005 emergency dam project by Kazakhstan's government to save the northern part, followed by a four-year drought, expedited the southern sea's disappearance. The most recent image, taken in August, shows a dry lakebed where the Southern Aral Sea used to be.

The loss of water has wreaked havoc on the local community and climate, NASA notes:

As the lake dried up, fisheries and the communities that depended on them collapsed. The increasingly salty water became polluted with fertilizer and pesticides. The blowing dust from the exposed lakebed, contaminated with agricultural chemicals, became a public health hazard. The salty dust blew off the lakebed and settled onto fields, degrading the soil. Croplands had to be flushed with larger and larger volumes of river water. The loss of the moderating influence of such a large body of water made winters colder and summers hotter and drier.

According to Philip Micklin, geographer emeritus at Western Michigan University and an Aral Sea expert, there has been significantly less rain and snow this year in the distant Pamir Mountains, greatly reducing water flow to the Amu Darya.

In 2003, NASA scientists warned that "complete desiccation" of the sea "could happen in as few as 15 years."

Looks like their prediction is right on schedule.