The gas supply was suspended to the industrial sector of Faisalabad for three consecutive days that resulted in halting the production process, Geo News reported Friday. According to sources, Sui Northern Gas Pipeline had resumed the gas supply for four days that was suspended again from today for three days. Production process in at least 450 industries of Faisalabad has come to a halt while it has also left daily wageworkers unemployed. …

The Swiss sun-powered aircraft Solar Impulse will attempt to fly from Switzerland to Morocco in coming weeks, in its longest flight to date, organisers said Wednesday. "After its inaugural flight to Paris and Brussels in 2011, Bertrand Piccard and Andre Borschberg's solar airplane will attempt, for the first time ever, to fly over 2,500 km (1,550 miles) without using a drop of fuel, finally landing in Morocco," said the project in a statement. …

At speeds even he could barely imagine, Albert Einstein's private papers and innermost thoughts will soon be available online, from a rare scribble of "E=mc2" in his own hand, to political pipe-dreams and secret love letters to his mistress. Fifty-seven years after the Nobel Prize-winning physicist's death, the Israeli university which he helped found opened Internet access on Monday to some of the 80,000 documents Einstein bequeathed to it in …

When the people from the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) called him to be an ambassador for one of their programs, Dhanush was perplexed. He told them that they had come to the wrong person and that he had no connection with wildlife conservation. But, the people of WWF told him that this was not about wildlife, but about climate change and that they wanted him to persuade the people of Chennai to switch off all electrical appliances for one hour on March …

A unique thermosolar power station in southern Spain can shrug off cloudy days: energy stored when the sun shines lets it produce electricity even during the night. The Gemasolar station, up and running since last May, stands out in the plains of Andalusia. From the road between Seville and Cordoba, one can see its central tower lit up like a beacon by 2,600 solar mirrors, each 120 square metres (1,290 square feet), that surround it in an …

The Obama administration is threatening to impose sanctions on India over its continued economic ties with Iran amid disagreements between Washington and New Delhi over how much and how soon the latter is reducing oil imports from the (in US eyes) pariah nation. India has "failed" to reduce its purchase of Iranian oil and if it doesn't do so, President Barack Obama may be "forced" to impose sanction, unnamed administration officials were cited …

Japan on Monday began a process that will see another one of the country's nuclear reactors go offline, leaving just two of 54 in operation. Kansai Electric Power Co (KEPCO), the largest utility firm after Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO), began lowering power generation in unit three at the Takahama nuclear plant in Fukui prefecture, a KEPCO spokeswoman said. The reactor is expected to be shut down completely by midnight, leaving all 11 reactors …

A probe designed to delve into the "Big Bang" that created the cosmos has uncovered an enigmatic fog of microwave radiation in the centre of our galaxy, European astronomers reported on Monday. Planck, a billion-dollar European space telescope launched in May 2009, found "a mysterious haze of microwaves that presently defies explanation" during a scan of the centre of the Milky Way, the European Space Agency (ESA) said. It could be a form of energy …

Love is in the air in Bollywood, especially for the cutest pair of Riteish Deshmukh and Genelia D’Souza who have decided to take their relationship to the next level. The couple will tie the knot Feb 3. After hiding their relationship in the past and by stating “we are just good friends” now finally Riteish has spoken up about his love life. After seven years, the two actors are coming together in “Tere Naal Love Ho Gaya” which is expected to hit …

Oil prices slid in Asian trade Wednesday as traders took profit from recent gains, with weak US energy demand dampening the market's mood despite concerns over tension in Iran and Nigeria, analysts said. New York's main contract, West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude for delivery in February, was down 54 cents to $101.70 in morning trade. Brent North Sea crude for February delivery shed 39 cents to $112.89. "Oil prices have dropped... as we see …