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  • Karakoram Highway ranked among world’s most beautiful roads

    Pakistan’s Karakoram Highway has been ranked among the 15 most beautiful roads in the world for its scenic beauty.

    Wikicampers, a website providing tourist services in different parts of the world, called the KKH an “ideal setting for a most dizzying road trip!”

    “Let’s gain altitude again by taking the second highest asphalt road in the world,” the website wrote, explaining the features of the road.

    The KKH connects China to Pakistan while crossing the Karakoram mountain range and running alongside certain peaks over 7,000 meters in height.

    The highway is about 1,300 km long, spreading from Hasan Abdal to the Khunjrab Pass in Gilgit-Baltistan, where it crosses into China.

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    In its documentary, the BBC had also called the KKH one of the highest paved roads on earth and a major trade route between Pakistan and China. It also said the road was completely developed, smooth and safe.

  • Restaurant makes ‘world’s most expensive burger’ for $6,000

    A restaurant, ‘de Daltons’, in the Netherlands has created the “world’s most expensive burger” for $6,000 (Rs956,088). The restaurant hopes that the burger will set a world record.

    The owner of the restaurant, Robbert Jan de Veen, says it was his “childhood dream to create a world record”.

    “Breaking a world record has been a childhood dream of mine and it feels amazing,” said the owner.

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    As per reports, the bun of the burger has a golden leaf. The burger contains white truffle, king crab, beluga caviar, duck egg mayonnaise, and Dom Pérignon champagne.

    The burger that presently holds the world’s most expensive burger is priced at $5,000 (Rs796,740 ). The burger is made by a restaurant, Juicys Outlaw Grill in Oregon, United States. It weighs 352.44kg and it has been holding the Guinness World Records since 2011.

  • Billionaire Richard Branson achieves his space dream

    British Billionaire, Richard Branson, flew into space on Sunday on his Virgin Galactic rocket plane and safely returned in the vehicle’s first fully-crewed test flight to space.

    After the historic moment, he released a video of him and the crew during the flight on Twitter.

    “I was once a child with a dream looking up to the stars. Now I’m an adult in a spaceship looking down to our beautiful Earth,” said Branson.

    According to reports, the space plane took off from Spaceport America, a huge base built in the Jornada del Muerto desert. It reached a peak altitude of around 53 miles beyond the boundary of space and carried two pilots and four passengers, including Branson.

    Shortly after the flight, the 70-year-old billionaire hugged his loved ones. He added, “Welcome to the dawn of a new space age.”

    The mission’s success has made Branson the first tycoon — beating Bezos — to cross the final frontier in a ship built by his own company. However, the richest person in the world is due to fly on July 20 and he himself congratulated his friendly rival on Instagram.

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    Branson founded Virgin Galactic in 2004, but his dream almost came to an end in 2014 when an accident caused the death of a pilot, considerably delaying the program. The company has planned two further flights, and then the start of regular commercial operations from early 2022.

  • Giant pandas no longer endangered, says China

    Giant pandas no longer endangered, says China

    Giant pandas are no longer endangered, but they are still vulnerable, Chinese officials have said after years of conservation efforts as their number in the wild has reached 1,800.

    As per reports, the country succeeded in saving its iconic animal through its long-term conservation efforts, including the expansion of habitats.

    The latest classification upgrade “reflects their improved living conditions and China’s efforts in keeping their habitats integrated”, said Cui Shuhong, head of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment’s Department of Nature and Ecology Conservation at a news conference.

    The news comes years after the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) had already removed the animal from its endangered species list and re-labeled it as “vulnerable” in 2016.

    However, Chinese officials at that time did not consider the progress, saying that it could make people believe that conservation efforts could be relaxed.

    This week’s announcement by China’s environmental ministry is the first time the animal’s status was changed on its endangered species list.

    Experts have said that the success is mainly due to Chinese efforts to recreate and repopulate bamboo forests. Bamboo makes up 99 per cent of their diet, without which they are likely to starve.

    Zoos have also attempted to increase numbers via captive breeding methods.

  • VIDEO: Bride wears crown made of golgappas

    VIDEO: Bride wears crown made of golgappas

    A South-Indian bride wore a crown and garland made of golgappas on her wedding day to profess her love for her favourite street snack. The video that has gone viral with 4.8 million views was shared by the bride’s make-up artist.

    PEARLS Beauty Lounge & Academy posted a video on Instagram with the caption: “Many congratulations to my pretty bride Akshaya and my groom Abhishek. This make-up was done at 3 AM and this video was shot at 3 PM. Looks pleasant and flawless finish without any patches on her skin.”

    “Indian marriage games are truly a traditional and essential part of the Indian wedding extravaganza,” the caption further reads.

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    The video also shows a tray full of golgappas in front of the bride.

  • Giant 3D cat installed in Tokyo to ‘cheer people up during the pandemic’

    Giant 3D cat installed in Tokyo to ‘cheer people up during the pandemic’

    A gigantic 3D cat has been installed on a billboard at Tokyo’s busiest railway stations. The 1,664-square-foot curved LED screen shows a giant 3D calico cat in a 4K display between the hours of 7 am to 1 am. The 3D cat behaves like an actual cat.

     It is first startled awake in the morning, by afternoon it stands and meows at people who pass by and then, in the evening, it lies down to fall asleep and rests its head on its paws.

    It also greets pedestrians with “nyannichiwa” – a combination of “konnichiwa” for hello, and “nyan” for meow.

    The display will officially launch next week. Test broadcasts have been going on since last month and many social media users have seen and shared how awestruck they are.

    Japan is currently closed to tourists so the company behind the display has posted a live-streaming view of the billboard on YouTube. However, they said that specific angles can affect how the 3D effect is viewed.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQ-Cg5c0CD4

    Takayuki Ohkawa is a spokesman for Unika, one of the two companies behind the feline display. He told The New York Times that the cat does not have an official name yet, although fans have been calling it “Shinjuku east exit cat”. He explained the reason behind creating the 3D cat was to help cheer people up during the current pandemic.

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    “There are many reasons we decided to display the cat, but one of the big reasons is that with corona, the world became very dark. Through the cat display, we wanted to revive Shinjuku and make it brighter,” said Ohkawa.

  • Woman stripped to pay for husband’s ‘love affair’

    Woman stripped to pay for husband’s ‘love affair’

    Three men allegedly stripped a woman in Dera Ismail Khan district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) to take revenge for her husband’s alleged affair with their sister.

    As per reports, the incident happened on June 6 when the victim was coming back from a wedding ceremony. Armed men captured her, assaulted her in a “revenge attack” and ran away, leaving the woman naked in the middle of a street.

    A local resident told The Express Tribune that they attacked the victim after rumours of the alleged affair between the victim’s husband, Imdad Hussain, and the sister of the accused “spread like a wildfire in the village enraging the girl’s family”.

    However, the resident said the police at first did not file an FIR, but relented a day later, registering the case under Section 354 of the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC) without mentioning stripping.

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    Police claim that the woman was not stripped, contradicting the statement of the local residents.

    “The woman had not been stripped but her clothes were torn apart by the accused who managed to escape and even threatened her of dire consequences,” police official Saddar Muhammad Adnan told The Express Tribune.

    DPO DI Khan Najamul Hasnain confirmed that an FIR has been registered against the three men but one of the accused managed to secure pre-arrest bail from the court. The DPO added that he was personally looking into the matter.

  • An alcoholic concoction takes over KPK, becoming a new cause of death

    After the General Atomics US ‘Predators’ and ‘Reapers’, the unmanned aerial vehicles that caused death in the tribal regions, now an alcoholic concoction is becoming a new cause of death in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (KPK).

    The alcoholic drink is aptly named, ‘Drone’, concocted by moonshiners in the remote Tirah Valley of the Khyber tribal district, which was once infamous for militancy and poppy cultivation. “The ingredients of this alcoholic drink are easily available over-the-counter drugs, syrups, and cold drinks,” reports The Express Tribune.

    A Tirah-based doctor confirmed that the brew originated in Tirah and escalated quickly to the settled districts of KP. “It has been given this funny name because it instantly makes you high and you start feeling light,” the doctor said, while speaking to The Express Tribune on the condition that he would not be identified.

    Economic depression and instability have reportedly led to an increase in the use of ‘Drone’ – a cure-all elixir – by the youth in the area.

    “Several kinds of sleeping tablets are dissolved in a popular soft-drink along with two types of sedative cough syrups, along with easily available cheap drugs to make this drink, which is sold for a few hundred rupees,” the doctor said.

    However, the explosive flooding of the drink prompted distress among members of the local Aman Committee who had to announce a ban on certain cough syrups to rein in the uncontrolled spread of the drugging drink.

    “Any shopkeeper found selling these cough syrups will be penalised with a fine – and a warning.”

  • Groom’s mother beats him with chappal during wedding ceremony

    Groom’s mother beats him with chappal during wedding ceremony

    A groom’s mother beat him with a chappal during his wedding ceremony in India’s Uttar Pradesh.

    In a viral video clip, the bride and the groom can be seen exchanging garlands when the groom’s mother came on the stage. She pushed the photographer aside, removed her slippers and started beating her son.

    Her face was covered with a dupatta. A man wearing a yellow T-shirt stopped her and brought her down from the stage.

    The incident was reported from a guest house in Sumerpur in the Hamirpur district of Uttar Pradesh.

    As per reports, the groom’s mother beat him because he married a girl from another caste. His family was not in favour of this marriage. Thus he married the girl in court.

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    After the court marriage, the bride’s father organised a ceremony to celebrate the wedding at a district hall on July 3. He didn’t invite the groom’s family to the wedding.

    However, the groom’s mother reached the marriage venue and hit him on the stage in front of the wedding guests.

    The guests present there tried to stop her and sent her back home.

  • Woman pours boiling water on husband for berating son

    Woman pours boiling water on husband for berating son

    A woman in Egypt poured boiling water on her husband allegedly for ill-treating their son.

    As per reports, the 43-year-old man was rushed to a nearby hospital with burns sustained in different parts of the body allegedly due to the woman’s attack.

    The husband who is a mechanic accused his 32-year-old wife of throwing boiling water at him from a teapot in their house because he had berated their son for playing late outdoors.

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    The woman confessed to the crime after she was arrested by the police.

    She said it was in reaction of her husband’s physical punishment to their son. Local prosecutions has ordered an inquiry into the incident.