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  • Two injured in railway engine, car collision

    SIALKOT: Two persons were injured and the rail traffic remained suspended for about two hours on Sialkot-Sambrial-Wazirabad track after a collision between a railway engine and a car on the bridge over Upper Chenab Canal near Sambrial on Sunday...

    According to police, a railway engine was going to Sialkot from Sambrial and when it was crossing the bridge a car appeared through gateless railway crossing...

  • Website review: Earth Engine

    The Google Earth Engine has compiled 30 years of incredible satellite imagery into one interactive time-lapse which not only reveals unbelievable global changes taking place but also depict urbanisation and deforestation through the years...

    The Earth Engine has been here for more than a decade now, but it has improved a lot with its growing imagery and updated application...

  • Train engine catches fire

    TOBA TEK SINGH: Fire engulfed a railway engine at Gojra on Wednesday which was extinguished by the municipal committee (MC) firefighters after over an hour...

    Witnesses said that engine of the Lahore-bound Karakoram Express from Karachi caught fire after it had just crossed the Gojra railway station...

  • 60 injured as boat engine explodes in Bangkok

    BANGKOK: More than 60 people were hospitalised on Saturday, mostly for burns, after the engine on a Bangkok commuter boat burst into flames and sent passengers leaping to a nearby pier, officials said...

    “We found that gas leaked at the boat’s rear and caused an explosion in its engine,” the officer said...

  • Wheels up for China’s new aero-engine group

    BEIJING: China officially launched a new multi-billion dollar jet engine conglomerate with almost 100,000 employees at the weekend, as Beijing seeks to become an aerospace power and compete with the likes of Rolls Royce and General Electric...

    The Aero Engine Corporation of China (AECC) has registered capital of 50bn yuan ($7...

  • 5 things you need to know about an engine when buying a used car

    On the other hand, an engine is a complex machine and requires detailed inspection but for the sake of keeping it simple, we will talk about five important and relatively basic aspects of an engine:Smoke coming from a diesel car is expected but if you are buying a used petrol car, you will need to find out what kind of smoke is it...

    Rich prolonged burning means the car engine has carbon deposits in it...

  • Iranian plane engine snaps off in flight

    TEHRAN: An engine of a Boeing 747 operated by Iran’s Mahan Air detached from the plane shortly after takeoff from Tehran on Thursday, causing terror among passengers but no injuries...

    Iranian media and social networks carried pictures of the crashed engine...

  • Asia’s economic engine hasn’t run out of steam: Nakao

    FRANKFURT: The global recession and readjustments in China may have moderated the pace of Asia’s ascent, but the region’s share and influence in the global economy are set to rise over the next five years, ADB President Takehiko Nakao said on Thursday...

    “Asian tide has not dissipated
  • Nissan revolution: could new petrol engine make diesel obsolete?

    ATSUGI: Japanese automaker Nissan Motor Co has come up with a new type of gasoline engine it says may make some of today's advanced diesel engines obsolete...

    The new engine uses variable compression technology, which Nissan engineers say allows it at any given moment to choose an optimal compression ratio for combustion ? a key factor in the trade-off between power and efficiency in all gasoline-fuelled engines...

  • Engine smoke forces evacuation of plane in snow

    TOKYO: More than 160 passengers and crew slid down emergency chutes in swirling snow on Tuesday after engine smoke forced a Japan Airlines domestic flight to abort takeoff and smoke entered the cabin, Japanese media reported...

    Kyodo said that the engine stalled after sucking in snow, and that there was an explosive sound when a pilot restarted it...

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