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SC says it condones delay in filing of petitions from inside jail

September 19, 2021

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court has said it always views delay in filing jail petitions or applications for permission to file appeals in criminal cases by imprisoned accused through the lens of fundamental rights, particularly when the right to liberty, dignity and fair trial guaranteed under Articles 9, 14 and 10A of the Constitution are involved. “In a criminal case where …

Health ministry notifies five members of Pims BoG

September 19, 2021

ISLAMABAD: The Ministry of National Health Services (NHS) on Saturday appointed five members of the board of governors (BoG) of the Federal Medical Teaching Institution (FMTI) of Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (Pims). The BoG will hold a meeting on Monday to elect its chairman. The employees of the hospital have shown their support for the members and hoped that …

Taliban replace ministry for women with one restricting them

September 19, 2021

KABUL: Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers set up a ministry for the propagation of “virtue and the prevention of vice” in the building that once housed the Women’s Affairs Ministry, escorting out World Bank staffers on Saturday as part of the forced move. It was the latest troubling sign that the Taliban are restricting women’s rights as they settle into government, just …

The quartet of newly minted citizen astronauts comprising the SpaceX Inspiration4 mission safely splashed down in the Atlantic off Florida’s coast on Saturday, completing a three-day flight of the first all-civilian crew ever sent into Earth orbit. The successful launch and return of the mission, the latest in a recent string of rocket-powered expeditions bankrolled by their billionaire passengers, marked another milestone in the fledgling industry of commercial astro-tourism, 60 years after the dawn of human spaceflight. “Welcome to the second space age,” Todd “Leif” Ericson, mission director for the Inspiration4 venture, told reporters on a conference call after the crew returned. SpaceX, the private rocketry company founded by Tesla Inc electric automaker CEO Elon Musk, supplied the spacecraft, launched it, controlled its flight and handled the splashdown recovery operation. The three-day mission ended as the SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule, dubbed Resilience, parachuted into calm seas around 7pm, shortly before sunset, following an automated reentry descent, as shown during a live SpaceX webcast on its YouTube channel. Within an hour the four smiling crew members were seen emerging one by one from the capsule’s side hatch after the vehicle, visibly scorched on its exterior, was hoisted from the ocean to the deck of a SpaceX recovery vessel. Each of the four stood on the deck for a few moments in front of the capsule to wave and give thumbs-up before being escorted to a medical station on board for checkups at sea. Afterwards, they were flown by helicopter back to Cape Canaveral for reunions with loved ones. Searing reentry The return from orbit followed a plunge through Earth’s atmosphere generating frictional heat that sent temperatures surrounding the outside of the capsule soaring to 1,900 degrees Celsius. The astronauts’ flight suits, fitted to special ventilation systems, were designed to keep them cool if the cabin heated up. Applause was heard from the SpaceX flight control centre in suburban Los Angeles as the first parachutes were seen deploying, slowing the capsule’s descent to about 25 kilometres per hour before splashdown, with another round of cheers as the craft hit the water. The astronauts were cheered again as they stepped onto the deck of the recovery ship. First out was Hayley Arceneaux, 29, a physician assistant at St Jude Children’s Research Centre in Tennessee, a childhood bone cancer survivor herself who became the youngest person ever to reach Earth orbit on the Inspiration4 mission. She was followed in rapid succession by geoscientist and former Nasa astronaut candidate Sian Proctor, 51, aerospace data engineer and Air Force veteran Chris Sembroski, 42, and finally the crew’s billionaire benefactor and “mission commander” Jared Isaacman, 38. “That was a heck of a ride for us,” Isaacman, chief executive of the e-commerce firm Shift4 Payments Inc, radioed from inside the capsule moments after splashdown. “We’re just getting started.” He had paid an undisclosed sum — put by Time magazine at roughly $200 million — to fellow billionaire Musk for all four seats aboard the Crew Dragon. The Inspiration4 team blasted off on Wednesday from the Kennedy Space Centre in Cape Canaveral atop one of SpaceX’s two-stage reusable Falcon 9 rockets. Highest orbit since Apollo Within three hours the crew capsule had reached a cruising orbital altitude of 585km — higher than the International Space Station or Hubble Space Telescope, and the farthest any human has flown from Earth since Nasa’s Apollo moon programme ended in 1972. It also marked the debut flight of Musk’s new space tourism business and a leap ahead of competitors likewise offering rides on rocket ships to well-heeled customers willing to pay a small fortune to experience the exhilaration of spaceflight and earn amateur astronaut wings. Musk’s company already ranks as the best-established player in the burgeoning constellation of commercial rocket ventures, having launched numerous cargo payloads and astronauts to the space station for Nasa. Two rival operators, Virgin Galactic Holdings Inc and Blue Origin, inaugurated their own space tourism services in recent months, with their respective founding executives, billionaires Richard Branson and Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos, each going along for the ride. Those suborbital flights, lasting a matter of minutes, were short hops compared with Inspiration4’s three days in orbit. Isaacman conceived of Inspiration4 primarily to raise awareness and donations for St Jude, one of his favourite causes, where Arceneaux now works. Ericson said the flight had so far raised $160m for the cancer institute, including $100m donated by Isaacman at the outset. The Inspiration4 crew had no part to play in flying the spacecraft, which was controlled by ground-based flight teams and onboard guidance systems, although Isaacman and Proctor are both licensed pilots. But Ericson insisted the crew had “the same training and the same control and authority that Nasa astronauts have” to intervene in the Crew Dragon’s operation in the event of an emergency. SpaceX’s human-spaceflight chief, Benji Reed, marvelled at how little went wrong during the flight, citing just two problems he described as minor and easily resolved — a malfunctioning fan in the crew’s toilet system and a faulty temperature sensor on one of the spacecraft’s engines. The level of “space adaption syndrome” experienced by the crew — vertigo and motion sickness while acclimating to a microgravity environment — was “pretty much on target with what Nasa astronauts do”, Ericson said. All four had appeared relaxed and energetic during a number of live video appearances they made for Earth-bound audiences during their flight, from performing zero-G somersaults in the cabin to strumming a ukulele.

September 19, 2021

ISLAMABAD: Argentina is planning to buy 12 JF-17A Block-III fighter jets from Pakistan, according to reports in the international media. The reports surfaced after the Argentinian government proposed a $664 million allocation in its budget for the year 2022 presented before the national parliament. The proposal for allocation does not mean that the deal has been closed because the sale contract is …

SpaceX capsule with world’s first all-civilian orbital crew returns safely

September 19, 2021

The quartet of newly minted citizen astronauts comprising the SpaceX Inspiration4 mission safely splashed down in the Atlantic off Florida’s coast on Saturday, completing a three-day flight of the first all-civilian crew ever sent into Earth orbit. The successful launch and return of the mission, the latest in a recent string of rocket-powered expeditions bankrolled by their billionaire passengers, marked another milestone in the fledgling industry …

THE RISE OF PAKISTANI TECH

September 19, 2021

The last one year has seen an exponential rise in Pakistani start-up companies, as more and more tech-savvy entrepreneurs attempt to solve longstanding business issues with the help of technology. Backed by investment, pitches are finally moving from mere buzzwords to reality. Eos profiles some of the most prominent of these new companies and the people behind them… President Arif …

SC says it condones delay in filing of petitions from inside jail

September 19, 2021

ISLAMABAD: The Church Property Protection Movement has challenged the recent proposed amendments to the Minority Common Property Ordinance Act 2020 in the Islamabad High Court (IHC). The writ petition says the amendments will open a back door channel to sell the common property of the minorities. Legal Adviser and Church Property Protection Movement Coordinator Zeeshan Ijaz said the Ministry of …

Maulana Aziz, others booked in terror, sedition case

September 19, 2021

ISLAMABAD: A case has been registered against Maulana Abdul Aziz, his collaborators as well as seminary students under the Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA) and different sections of Pakistan Penal Code (PPC) after flags representing the Afghan Taliban were found hoisted on the rooftop of Jamia Hafsa in G-7/3 on Saturday. Talking to Dawn on condition of anonymity, officers of the capital administration and …

NCOC reserves Sunday for partially vaccinated people

September 19, 2021

ISLAMABAD: The National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) dedicates another Sunday (today) to the partially-vaccinated people for the third week in a row to facilitate them in getting their second dose of the Covid-19 vaccine. On the other hand, the number of daily infections has fallen by 50 per cent during the last over one month. It is worth mentioning …

Govt won’t consult Shehbaz on NAB chief

September 19, 2021

LAHORE: Though the non-extendable four-year tenure of National Accountability Bureau chairman Javed Iqbal is ending early next month, Prime Minister Imran Khan is not willing to consult the Leader of Opposition in National Assembly Shehbaz Sharif for the appointment of a new head of the anti-graft watchdog as he (Sharif) is an accused in corruption references filed against him by …

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