LOCKHART, Texas (AP) — Federal officials say a hot air balloon carrying at least 16 people caught on fire and crashed in Central Texas, and it is unclear whether there are injuries or deaths. Lynn Lunsford with the Federal Aviation Administration said in a statement that the accident happened about 8.40 a.m. Saturday near Lockhart, Texas, when the hot air balloon crashed into a pasture ... Lockhart is about 30 miles south of Austin ... ....
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A giddy if exhausted Hillary Clinton embarked on a post-convention RustBelt bus tour just hours after becoming the first female presidential nominee of a major political party ... ....
Stephen Hawking has penned a thoughtful appeal for post-Brexit Britain to reconsider the role that wealth plays in society, warning that isolationism and envy could even lead to the end of the human species, Mashable reports. In a Guardian essay, the world-renowned physicist made the case for a more comprehensive and generous definition of wealth "to include knowledge, natural resources and human capacity." ... ....
Believed to be in his mid-30s, Chowdhury aka Sheikh Abu Ibrahim al-Hanif reportedly left Canada in 2013 itself and has been identified by numerous terrorism experts and analysts as the head o ... ....
Hyderabad is set to host a multi-location street art festival, the kind it has never seen before ...Papa Rao, trustee of art@telangana ... ft ... The street is our gallery,” said Hanif Kureshi of St-artindia at an interactive session with city-based artists, laying out his vision for the street art experiment ... Rao. ....
"We have announced our whole-hearted backing to the rally tomorrow and many of our members and community are likely to attend it," Nasir Ansari, general secretary of the Gujarat unit of Jamiat-e-Ulema Hind, told IANS on Friday evening ... "We have been victims of political conspiracy in the past ... Political parties have only attained power by using our emotions," vice-president of Jamiat-e-Ulema-Hind MohammedHanif said ... --IANS. desai/rn/vm....
A few years ago, I got a request from a well known publisher to go through Kai Chand The Sar-e-Aasman. Though devoted to publishing Indian language titles in translation, the lady on the other end of the phone had no acquaintance with Urdu... She sent me a copy of the book. It was a voluminous one, some 850 pages ... Well Kai Chand... The novel comes with the recommendation of luminaries such as Orhan Pamuk, MohammedHanif and Nadeem Aslam....
PUNE. A sessions court dismissed the anticipatory bail application of two directors of a chit fund firm ... In their plea, Kamlesh and Vikram said that a false complaint was lodged against them with the purpose of harassing them ever since they handed over the firm's business to one MohammadHanif Shaikh, who duly notified the handover to subscribers in April ... The court observed that the transfer had no valid recognition ... RELATED....
KOLKATA. At least five Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) terrorists, whose names appear in the latest list handed over by Rapid Action Batallion (RAB) to Indian authorities, suspected to have sneaked into India...Also known asAbu Ibrahim Al-Hanif, Chowdhury's interview appeared in the June, 2016 issue of Dabiq-ISIS' propaganda magazine. According to sources, he left Canada in 2013 and could not be traced after that ... RELATED....
Richard T Kelly. From Dickens and Zola to Tolstoy, the best political novels thrive on complexity. Rolling news and social media encourage us to live under a siege of immediate reaction ...Related. Robert Harris. why I write political fiction ... The attractions are clear ... Twitter ... Hanif Kureishi has lamented that, unlike in Dickens’s time, there is not one contemporary writer with “a sense of the whole society, from prisoner to home secretary” ... ....
Thank GodPaul Morley’s The Age of Bowie doesn't try to be an objective, sensible biography ... I don’t want real ... Here is 1972. “. ... It was obvious to us that the super-cool soundtrack for the TV dramatisation of Hanif Kureishi’s zeitgeist novel The Buddha of Suburbia, set in south London in the Seventies, could only have been written by Bowie, who in the early days bought his shirts and shoes in Lewisham ... The Age of Bowie....
The NationalSecurity Adviser MohammadHanifAtmar has said Afghanistan need modern Mi-35 gunship helicopters in order to rebuff the terrorist groups in the country. Atmar is currently on an ...Atmar further added “Now we have obsolete modifications of Russian combat helicopters....
Protest by Dalits against the Una flogging incident, in Surat. (Source. Express photo by HanifMalek) Unlike the Patidar reservation agitation that saw guiding faces like Hardik Pat ... ....
Dalit outfits and other groups take out protest rally against the youth’s death. (Source. Express photo by HanifMalek) A DAY after a 25-year-old Dalit man died during a raid on w ... ....
Karachi. Former fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar has criticised Pakistan's dismal performance in the second Test against England, saying that the team's batting got completely exposed ... And the problem of consistency remains as usual," he said ... Former batting legend HanifMuhammad had a word of advise for Younis, who is Pakistan's highest Test run-getter ... He will find it hard to adjust himself," Hanif said. ....
--> Tue, 26 Jul 2016-01.35pm , Karachi , PTI. England beat Pakistan on Monday by a massive 330 runs to win the second Test at his Old Traffordhome ground ... England beat Pakistan on Monday by a massive 330 runs to win the second Test at his Old Trafford home ground ... Former batting legend HanifMuhammad had a word of advise for Younis, who is Pakistan's highest Test run-getter ... He will find it hard to adjust himself," Hanif said. ....