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LAHORE:The fire was brought under control as a total of seven fire tenders took part in the operation. What caused the fire couldn’t be ascertained immediately. At least four people including women were seen stranded at fourth floor of the plaza  Fire erupts in commercial plaza at Kalma Chowk in Lahore

Relatives of Chinese passengers on board Flight MH370 scuffled with security personnel as they descended on Malaysia's embassy in a rare protest, weeping as they demanded answers on the crashed plane. "Return our relatives," around 200 family members cried on Tuesday at the gates of the Beijing mission, which was protected by a row of uniformed police and plain clothes security. BEIJING: Relatives of passengers aboard the Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 argue with a security guard outside the Malaysian Embassy here on Tuesday.—AFP One of the most vocal campaigners against the Malaysian government, Wen Wancheng, burst out crying at the embassy protest, the AFP news agency reported. "My son, my son, return my son!" screamed the 63-year-old, as relatives behind him chanted slogans, raising their right fists. Behind him others bowed their heads and sobbed. Scuffles broke out when uniformed security personnel attempted to block some of the relatives fro...

An Australian aircraft scouring the southern Indian Ocean for signs of a Malaysia Airlines jet missing for more than two weeks has spotted two new objects, Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said today. Abbott told parliament an Australian naval vessel was near where the objects, one circular and greenish grey in colour and the second orange and rectangular, had been seen and hoped to be able to recover them soon. A Chinese search aircraft earlier reported seeing several different objects but a U.S. navy aircraft failed to find them. Speaking about the development during today's media briefing, acting transport minister Hishammuddin Hussein said: "A few minutes ago the Prime Minister [of Malaysia] received a call from the Prime Minister of Australia, who informed him that an Australian search aircraft had located two objects in the Australian search area, one circular and one rectangular. "HMAS Success is in the vicinity and it is possible that the objects ...

Earlier on Friday, authorities had ordered a probe into the death of 41 children who reportedly died of pneumonia and malnutrition in a stretch of the Thar desert. Media reports from Mithi, one of the least developed and most remote districts in southern Sindh province, had suggested that more than 100 people had died because of famine and malnutrition. “It is a very serious matter and we have deputed a senior member of the party and officials to probe into the deaths,” Syed Qaim Ali Shah, the chief minister of Sindh, had told reporters. The minister also ordered the arrest of senior health officials for neglecting their duties, saying they had failed to move the children to hospitals in the bigger cities. Shah said the cause of the deaths would be confirmed by the investigation but apparently pneumonia and malnutrition were among the reasons. The chief minister said the government records showed the death of 41 children but there were fears that the actual number may be higher. Th...

By Stuart Grudgings and Anuradha Raghu KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - A Malaysia Airlines flight carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew crashed in the South China Sea on Saturday, Vietnamese state media said, quoting a senior naval official. The Boeing 777-200ER flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing had been missing for hours when Vietnam's Tuoi Tre news quoted Admiral Ngo Van Phat as saying he had asked boats from an island off south Vietnam to rush to the crash site. If the report is confirmed, it would mark the U.S.-built airliner's deadliest crash since entering service 19 years ago. Malaysia Airlines had yet to confirm that the aircraft had crashed. It said earlier in the day that no distress signal had been given and cited early speculation that the plane may have landed in Nanming in southern China. Flight MH370, operating a Boeing 777-200ER aircraft, last had contact with air traffic controllers 120 nautical miles off the east coast of the Malaysian town of Kota Bharu,...

Outernet: Providing information to the world from outer space 03/02/2014 MDIF is incubating its first project: Outernet, the world’s first truly global media delivery service. Founded by MDIF’s Director of Innovation Syed Karim, Outernet will use a network of small satellites to transmit selected internet data – audio, video, text and applications – to any Wi-Fi-enabled device, including mobile phones, anywhere in the world at no cost. No other information channel allows for such a wide variety of content, or broadcasts on a genuinely world-wide scale. Here is how CNN reported and visualised Outernet, which went viral on its launch on 31 January, with 150,000 unique visitors to the website in the first 72 hours and massive global coverage – on 10 February it was the number 1 trending subject on Baidu, China’s equivalent to Google. “We are excited to incubate such a revolutionary project,” said MDIF CEO Harlan Mandel. “Outernet will bypass censorship, ensure privacy and off...