Top 10 Youngest Internet Millionaires

Internet has proved to be a good place of investment for many entrepreneurs, young and old. Some of the young entrepreneurs have earned huge success in their projects and have become millionaires at an early age.
This list includes 10 such young entrepreneurs who have become millionaires on the internet.

10 Greg Tseng and Johann Schleier-Smith
Greg Tseng and Johann Schleier-Smith Tagged Inc. co-founded
Age: 28 years old

Project: Tagged

Wealth: $45 million

Tagged Inc. was co-founded by Harvard graduates and entrepreneurs Greg Tseng and Johann Schleier-Smith. Tagged.com was launched in October 2004 by Tagged Inc. and is privately owned.Tagged.com is a social networking site founded in 2004. Tagged is the subject of numerous customer complaints for sending deceptive bulk mail and is regarded as a phishing and spamming site and an "E-mail scam" by consumer anti-fraud advocates. It is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States

9 Jake Nickell
Threadless Co-founders Jake Nickell
Age: 28 years old

Project: Threadless

Wealth: $50 million
Threadless is a community-centered online apparel store run by skinnyCorp of Chicago, Illinois, since 2000. Co-founders Jake Nickell and Jacob DeHart started the company with $1,000 in seed money after entering an Internet t-shirt design contest.
Members of the Threadless community submit t-shirt designs online; the designs are then put to a public vote. A small percentage of submitted designs are selected for printing and sold through an online store. Creators of the winning designs receive a prize of cash and store credit.

8 Alexander Levin
ImageShack Co.founder Alexander Levin
Age: 23 years old

Project: ImageShack

Wealth: $56 million
ImageShack is an image hosting website on the Internet. ImageShack has a subscription service, but the majority of their revenue is produced from advertising related to their free image hosting. The imageshack.us Alexa ranking as of September 25, 2007 is one of the top 40's. According to Nielsen//NetRatings, ImageShack was the fourth fastest growing web brand in July, 2006.

7 John Vechey
PopCap Games Co-founder John Vechey
Age: 28 years old

Project: PopCap Games

Wealth: $60 million
PopCap Games is a leading American casual game developer and publisher, based in Seattle, Washington, United States. It was founded in 2000 by John Vechey, Brian Fiete and Jason Kapalka, and currently employs more than 180 people. Most of Popcap's games can be played free in a limited form, with the full version available for a fee.
PopCap’s flagship title Bejeweled has sold more than 25 million units across all major platforms. PopCap games are available for Web, PC and Mac, Xbox, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, cell-phones, PDAs, iPod Classic, iPhone/Touch and other mobile devices.

6 Angelo Sotira
DeviantArt Co-founder Angelo Sotira

Age: 26 years old

Project: DeviantART

Wealth: $75 million
DeviantArt (official typeset as deviantART; commonly abbreviated as dA) is an American online community with worldwide appeal showcasing various forms of user-made artwork. It was first launched on August 7, 2000 by Scott Jarkoff, Matthew Stephens, Angelo Sotira and others. DeviantArt, Inc. is headquartered in the Hollywood area of Los Angeles, California, United States. As of May 2009[update] the site consists of over 10 million members, over 81 million submissions, and receives around 105,000 submissions per day. The domain deviantart.com attracted at least 36 million visitors annually by 2008 according to a Compete.com study.
DeviantArt aims to provide a place for any artist to exhibit and discuss works. Works are organized in a comprehensive category structure, including photography, digital art, traditional art, literature, Flash, filmmaking, skins for applications and others, along with extensive downloadable resources such as tutorials and stock photography. "Fella," a small robotic cat character, is the official DeviantArt mascot.

5 Andrew Michael
Fast Hosts founder Andrew Michael
Age: 29 years old

Project: Fast Hosts

Wealth: $110 million

4 Blake Ross and David Hyatt
Mozilla firefox project by Dave Hyatt and Blake Ross.

Age: 22 years old

Project: Mozilla

Wealth: $120 million
Mozilla Firefox is a free and open source web browser descended from the Mozilla Application Suite and managed by Mozilla Corporation. Firefox has 22.98% of the recorded usage share of web browsers as of August 2009[update], making it the second most popular browser in terms of current use worldwide after Microsoft's Internet Explorer, which has 66.97%.
To display web pages, Firefox uses the Gecko layout engine, which implements most current web standards in addition to several features which are intended to anticipate likely additions to the standards.
Latest Firefox features include tabbed browsing, spell checking, incremental find, live bookmarking, a download manager, private browsing, location-aware browsing (aka "geolocation") based exclusively on a Google service and an integrated search system that uses Google by default in most localizations. Functions can be added through add-ons, created by third-party developers, of which there is a wide selection, a feature that has attracted many of Firefox's users. Firefox runs on various versions of Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and many other Unix-like operating systems. Its current stable release is version 3.5.3, released on September 9, 2009[update]. Firefox's source code is free software, released under a tri-license GNU GPL/GNU LGPL/MPL

3 Chad Hurley
Chad Hurley co-founder and Chief Executive Officer youtube
Age: 30 years old

Project: YouTube

Wealth: $300 million
Chad Meredith Hurley (born 1976) is the co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of the popular San Bruno, California-based video sharing website YouTube. In June 2006, he was voted 28th on Business 2.0's "50 People Who Matter Now" list. In October 2006 he sold YouTube for $1.65 billion to Google.
Hurley worked in eBay's PayPal division—one of his tasks involved designing the original PayPal logo before starting YouTube with fellow PayPal colleagues Steve Chen and Jawed Karim. Hurley is a user interface expert and was primarily responsible for the tagging and video sharing aspects of YouTube

2 Andrew Gower
Andrew Christopher Gower is a British games developer and co-founder of Jagex Ltd
Age: 28 years old

Project: Runescape

Wealth: $650 million
Andrew Christopher Gower (born 2 December 1978) is a British games developer and co-founder of Jagex Ltd, the company he founded with Paul Gower and Constant Tedder. He is noted for writing MMORPG RuneScape, with the assistance of his brother, Paul Gower and also a lead developer.
Jagex Games Studio (or Jagex Ltd./Jagex Software/JAGeX) is a producer of online computer games based in Cambridge, UK. It is best known for the three versions of its RuneScape MMO, as well as for having produced the FunOrb games site and developing the 'to be released' MechScape MMO. Jagex has over 350 employees, with all content development, management, and customer support provided 'in house'. The company produces games exclusively written using the Java language, its name standing for "JAva Gaming EXperts". It has received a number of awards for its achievements and is one of the highest profile developers in the UK

1 Mark Zuckerberg
Mark Elliot Zuckerberg Facebook Founder
Age: 23 years old

Project: Facebook

Wealth: $700 million
Mark Elliot Zuckerberg (born May 14, 1984) is an American computer programmer and entrepreneur. As a Harvard student, he created the online social website Facebook with fellow computer science major students and his roommates Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes. Facebook is a social networking site popular worldwide. Zuckerberg serves as Facebook's CEO. He has been the subject of controversy for the origins of his business and his wealth.
Time Magazine added Zuckerberg as one of The World's Most Influential People of 2008. He fell under the Scientists & Thinkers category for his web phenomenon, Facebook, and ranked 52 out of 101 people.

Cows for Qurbani 2009

Sachin Tendulkar crosses 17000-run mark in ODIs

NEW DELHI: Master blaster Sachin Tendulkar finally touched the magical 17,000-run mark in One-Day International cricket during the fifth ODI against

Australia at Hyderabad on Thursday.

Tendulkar completed the formality as he needed just seven runs to reach another milestone in his glittering career.

Sanath Jayasuriya is second on the list with 13,377 runs while Aussie captain Ricky Ponting has a lot of catching up to do.

The moment Tendulkar attained that mark the packed vociferous Rajiv Gandhi Stadium crowd jumped out of their seats and erupted in jubilation.

Tendulkar's wait to reach the 17,000-run mark in One-dayers continued in Mohali as he missed the milestone by just seven runs after getting dismissed for 40 on a dubious decision in the fourth ODI against Australia.

The 36-year-old scored the requisite seven runs to put another feather in his cap, which is already full of feathers but still managing to have some more. The Indian batting legend has 44 One-day hundreds and 91 ODI fifties under his belt.

The diminutive Mumbaikar, who made his ODI debut Pakistan in 1989, is already way ahead of his contemporaries when it comes to accumulating runs.

Rated as the world's best batsman after Australian legend Sir Donald Bradman, Tendulkar has an awe-inspiring Test record. In the whopping 159 matches that he has played thus far, Tendulkar has scored 12,773 runs at an average of 54.58.

The veteran batsman has scored 42 hundreds and 53 half centuries in the longer format of the game.

Death toll in Pindi suicide blast up to 22

 Updated at: 1211 PST,  Monday, November 02, 2009

 RAWALPINDI: The death tally in Rawalpindi suicide blast has mounted to 22 including a women and as many others were injured, which took place near Shalimar Hotel behind Pearl Continental (PC) Hotel located on a Mall Road in Cantonment Area, on Monday morning, Geo news correspondent Zarghoon Shah quoted police sources as saying.

People, busy in banks and in offices of travel agencies located close to blast site, mostly fell victim to blast whose dead bodies have been shifted to District Headquarter (DHQ) Hospital, sources said.

According to police sources, a suicide bomber riding motorcycle blew himself up near banks and travel agencies’ offices to cause collateral damage; meanwhile, emergency has been declared in all hospitals as some among 23 wounded people were said to be critical in condition including an army major.

Hospital sources confirmed as many as 22 people have lost their lives while 23 others were wounded, some even critical in condition among them, have been admitted to 16 different hospitals.

According to preliminary information, a loud explosion, could be audible up to far and wide places, occurred at 10:40 am to target law enforcement agencies’ officials meanwhile, security forces’ officials had cordoned off the entire blast site.

It may be mentioned; the GHQ is located 500 yards away from blast site, which is a commercial area.

The intensity of blast also damaged vehicles parked far from explosion place, witnesses said.

50 dead, over 100 hurt in Peshawar blast

50 dead, over 100 hurt in Peshawar blast
  Updated at: 1500 PST, Wednesday, October 28, 2009  
 

PESHAWAR: NWFP senior minister Bashir Ahmed Bilour has confirmed the killing of 50 people in the explosion occurred in Peshawar.

According to reports, more then 100 people sustained injures as causalities feared to be increased. The injured have been shifted to Lady Reading Hospital and other hospitals where emergency has been announced. The children and women are also among the wounded. Some of the injured reported in a critical condition. The administration of Lady Reading Hospital has appealed for blood donation. The blast shattered windowpanes of nearby buildings and created panic among the people.

Meanwhile, a building has been collapsed during rescue operation. Police have cordoned off the area as rescue operation is on the blast site.

President Asif Ali Zardari has expressed his heartfelt grief over the loss of innocent lives in Peshawar bomb blast, while denouncing the incident, Prime Minister (PM) Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani directed concerned officials to provide the injured with all the possible medical relief. NWFP Chief Minister (CM), Amir Hyder Khan Hoti has ordered inquiry of the blast.

Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N) Quaid Mian Nawaz Sharif, CM Punjab Shehbaz Sharif, Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) Quaid Altaf Hussain, Governor Punjab Salman Taseer, Federal Interior Minister Rehman Malik, Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting, Qamar Zaman Kaira, NWFP CM Amir Hyder Hoti, Governor NWFP Owais Ahmed Ghani, CM Sindh Syed Qaim Ali Shah, Governor Sindh Dr Ishrat-ul-Ibad, CM Balochistan Aslam Raisani, Governor Balochistan Zulfiqar Magsi, Federal Ministers Farooq Sattar and Babar Ghauri, Amir Jamaat-e-Islami Syed Munawar Hassan and Qazi Husain Ahmed have strongly condemned the blast.

11 dead in Kabul attack

11 dead in Kabul attack
 

 

KABUL: Gunmen with automatic weapons and suicide vests stormed a guest house used by U.N. staff in the heart of the Afghan capital early Wednesday, killing 11 people including six U.N staff officials said. A Taliban spokesman claimed responsibility, saying it was meant as an assault on the upcoming presidential election.

Later, a rocket slammed into the grounds of the luxury Serena Hotel, which is favored by many foreigners. The device failed to explode but filled the lobby with smoke, forcing guests and employees to flee to the basement, according to an Afghan witness who asked that his name not be used for security reasons.

U.N. spokesman Adrian Edwards said six U.N. staff were killed and nine other U.N. employees were injured in the assault, which began about dawn in the Shar-e-Naw area of the city. Guests scurried from the building during the assault, and flames were seen on the roof as smoke billowed out and over the city.

Afghan police official Abdul Ghafar Sayedzada said 11 people in all were killed, including three attackers, and that police had taken control of the building. The bodies of three attackers were taken out of the house and sent for autopsy, said Gul Mohammad, an officer at the scene.

$1.9 million car ASTON MARTIN Coupe

Aston Martin has released the first image of its newest flagship – the limited edition One-77. Details are scarce, but the One-77 will be powered by a hand-built 7.0-liter V12 nestled inside an aluminum and carbon fiber chassis. 0-60 times are estimated at 3.5-seconds, with a top speed cresting 200 mph. 77 examples of the £1 million coupe will be produced and customers will be able to customize the bespoke supercar to meet their individual tastes. The One-77 will be revealed later this year (Paris?) and will go on sale shortly afterwards. Picture gallery below. Enjoy!

Akram's wife dies at the age of 42

Akram's wife dies at the age of 42

Updated at: 1351 PST,  Sunday, October 25, 2009  CHENNAI: Huma, the wife of former Pakistan captain Wasim Akram, has died in a hospital in Chennai on Sunday after developing heart and kidney complications. According to sources, she was admitted to the Apollo Hospital last Tuesday after her condition deteriorated on board an air ambulance flying from Lahore to Singapore, where she was due to be treated. Huma, 42, is survived by two sons, and arrangements are underway to fly her body back to Pakistan, hospital sources said. Ijaz Butt, the PCB chairman, also expressed his grief over the demise. "We are with Wasim and his family at this hour of need and pray to God to give them strength to bear this great and irreparable loss," he said. A trained medical practitioner herself, Huma had a brief stint as psychologist of the Pakistan team in the mid 1990s. Huma, the wife of former Pakistan captain Wasim Akram, has died on Sunday after evelopingheart and kidney complications. She was admitted to the Apollo Hospital in Chennai last Tuesday after her condition deteriorated on board an air ambulance flying from Lahore to Singapore, where she was due to be treated at the Mount Elizabeth Hospital. She breathed her last around 9:45am, hospital sources informed. Huma, 42, is survived by two children, Taimur and Akbar, and arrangements are underway to fly her body back to Pakistan. A trained medical practitioner herself, she had stints with some of the leading hospitals in Pakistan as a psychologist and a hypnotherapist. In the mid-1990s, during her husband's second stint as captain, Huma also worked with the Pakistan team for a while as a psychological counsellor, helping players such as Saqlain Mushtaq. Wasim also regularly credited her for helping him mentally, especially in the aftermath of the players revolt against his captaincy in 1993-94. Ijaz Butt, the PCB chairman, also expressed his grief over the demise. "We are with Wasim and his family at this hour of need and pray to God to give them strength to bear this great and irreparable loss," he said. "All the management of PCB and fellow cricketers have also extended their condolences and prayed eternal peace for the departed soul." Wasim, 43, played 104 Tests and 356 ODIs during his 17-year career, before retiring in 2002 with 414 and 502 wickets in the respective formats.

Islamic University: one women killed, 13 injured in twin suicide blasts

ISLAMABAD: Twin suicide blasts rocked the new campus of Islamic University, Islamabad killing one woman and injuring 13 others.

According to sources, first blast occurred in cafeteria of women campus and immediately after another blast took place in the Sharia Block.

A large number of ambulances and police officials have reached the spot immediately after the blast.

The injured have been transferred to PIMS hospital including 11 girls and two boys.


Two female students killed in Islamabad University twin blasts
  Updated at: 1610 PST, Tuesday, October 20, 2009  
  ISLAMABAD: Two female students have been killed and 13 wounded among which four have been reported in a critical state in Islamic University twin explosion, Geo News reported. One suspect has been arrested near the campus.

Pakistani Taliban Chief Baitullah Mehsud Killed, Intel Officials Say

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May 2008 File: Taliban commander Baitullah Mehsud speaks to reporters in Pakistan's South Waziristan tribal region.

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan —  Pakistan's Taliban chief has been killed in a CIA missile strike and his body buried, three Pakistani intelligence officials said Friday. But one of the three said no intelligence agent had actually seen the remains.

The officials said Mehsud was killed in Wednesday's missile attack on the home of his father-in-law and that his body was buried in the village of Nardusai in South Waziristan, not far from the site of the missile strike.

The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly.

One official said he had seen a classified intelligence report stating Mehsud was dead and buried, but agents had not seen the body as the area was under Taliban control.

Pakistani Interior Minister Rehman Malik said he could not confirm Mehsud's death, but that information pointed in that direction.

"There is no confirmation to his death as far as the evidence is concerned. I repeat again, yes, the information is pouring from that area that he is dead," Malik told reporters outside Parliament.

The minister urged Mehsud's associates to abandon their leaders and to "serve Islam in true meaning and serve Pakistan as this country has given them refuge."

Malik said no Pakistani military operation was going on in South Waziristan, and that only selective targets were being hit. Mehsud, however, was believed to have been killed in an American strike, the intelligence officials said.

"I have already said that it is a targeted operation, it is a targeted law enforcement action against Baitullah Mehsud's group and it will continue till Baitullah Mehsud's group is eliminated forever," he said.

A senior U.S. intelligence official said there were strong indications that Mehsud was among those killed in the attack, but he would not elaborate.

If confirmed, Mehsud's demise would be a major boost to Pakistani and U.S. efforts to eradicate the Taliban and Al Qaeda.

Mehsud has Al Qaeda connections and has been suspected in the killing of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto. Pakistan views him as its top internal threat and has been preparing an offensive against him. The U.S. sees him as a danger to the war effort in Afghanistan, largely because of the threat he is believed to pose to nuclear-armed Pakistan.TORIES

The missile strike hit the home of Mehsud's father-in-law in Pakistan's South Waziristan tribal region early Wednesday. Intelligence officials say Mehsud's second wife was among at least two people killed, and Mehsud associates have claimed he was not among the dead.

Pakistan army spokesman Maj. Gen. Athar Abbas cautioned the reports of Mehsud's death were still unconfirmed. "We are receiving reports and probing," he said.

A senior Pakistani intelligence official said phone and other communications intercepts — he would not be more specific — have led authorities to suspect Mehsud was dead, but he also stressed there's no definitive evidence yet. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak on the matter publicly.

The U.S. government was also looking into the reports, according to a U.S. counterterrorism official. The official indicated the United States did not yet have physical evidence — remains — that would prove who died. But he said there are other ways of determining who was killed in the strike. He declined to describe them.

The two U.S. officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the matter publicly.

The U.S. and Pakistan will conduct DNA testing on the body to try to confirm it is Mehsud, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing an unnamed U.S. defense official. The tests will use DNA samples taken from Mehsud's family members, and results could take anywhere from days to weeks, the newspaper reported.

For years, the U.S. has considered Mehsud a lesser threat to its interests than some of the other Pakistani Taliban, their Afghan counterparts and Al Qaeda, because most of his attacks were focused inside Pakistan, not against U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan.

That view appeared to change in recent months as Mehsud's power grew and concerns mounted that increasing violence in Pakistan could destabilize the U.S. ally and threaten the entire region.

In March, the State Department authorized a reward of up to $5 million for the militant chief. And increasingly, American missiles fired by unmanned drones have focused on Mehsud-related targets.

While Mehsud's death would be a big blow to the Taliban in Pakistan, he has deputies who could take his place. Whether a new leader could wreak as much havoc in Pakistan as Mehsud could depends largely on how much pressure the Pakistani military continues to put on the Taliban network, especially in South Waziristan.

Pakistan's record is spotty on that front. It has used both military action and truces to try to contain Mehsud over the years, but neither tactic seemed to work, despite billions in U.S. aid aimed at helping the Pakistanis tame the tribal areas.

Mehsud was not that prominent a militant when the U.S. invaded Afghanistan in 2001 after the Sept. 11 attacks, according to Mahmood Shah, a former security chief for the tribal regions. In fact, Mehsud has struggled against such rivals as Abdullah Mehsud, an Afghan war veteran who had spent time in U.S. custody in Guantanamo Bay.

A February 2005 peace deal with Mehsud appeared to give him room to consolidate and boost his troop strength tremendously, and within months dozens of pro-government tribal elders in the region were gunned down on his command.

In December 2007, Mehsud became the head of a new coalition called the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, or Pakistan's Taliban movement. Under Mehsud's guidance, the group has killed hundreds of Pakistanis in homicide and other attacks. He is believed to have as many as 20,000 fighters at his beck and call, among them a steady supply of homicide bombers.

Analysts say the reason for Mehsud's rise in the militant ranks is his alliances with Al Qaeda and other violent extremist groups. U.S. intelligence has said Al Qaeda has set up its operational headquarters in Mehsud's South Waziristan stronghold and the neighboring North Waziristan tribal area.

Mehsud has no record of attacking targets in the West, although he has threatened to attack Washington.

However, he is suspected of being behind a 10-man cell arrested in Barcelona in January 2008 for plotting homicide attacks in Spain. Pakistan's former government and the CIA have named him as the prime suspect behind the December 2007 killing of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto. He has denied a role.

He also has withstood threats from within Taliban ranks. A few weeks ago, Qari Zainuddin, the leader of a renegade Pakistani Taliban faction who had criticized Mehsud's tactics, was shot to death — allegedly on Mehsud's orders.

In June of this year, Pakistan said it would launch an offensive against Mehsud in South Waziristan.

In the weeks that have followed, the army has relied heavily on airstrikes to target areas under Mehsud's control, but it has never quite gone full-scale with the offensive. Meantime, the missile strikes continued, raising speculation that the U.S. might get him first.

Pakistan publicly opposes the missile strikes, saying they anger local tribes and make it harder for the army to operate. Still, many analysts suspect the two countries have a secret deal allowing the strikes.

Centaurus Pakistan 7 Star Hotel

PGCL is introducing a dynamic real estate project of epic proportions, The Centaurus, which is progressing from concept to reality at an incredible pace. We are confident that The Centaurus will be the next icon of Pakistan . Therefore, PGCL is a name that adds value to your assets successfully.

The Centaurus consists of 6.59 acres of architectural brilliance in the heart of Islamabad - Pakistan. It is under construction on the most expensive plot in the history of Pakistan and designed by ATKINS, which has a solid reputation in the creation of stunning buildings like the awe inspiring Burj-ul-Arab, Jumeirah Beach Hotel, Twisting Tower, 21st Century Tower etc. The Centaurus is a living day wonder.

The Centaurus consists of 7 Star Hotel, Corporate Complex, Two Residencial Towers and International Standard Shopping  Mall. It can bear up to 9.5 Magnitude Earth Quake and will be completed by 2010.

In Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan where just a few months ago the infamous Red Mosque rebellion unfolded, a spectacular architectural masterpiece is currently under construction. The centerpiece of this project is a 37 story tower which looks like a ski jump and when completed in 2010 will be one the handful of 7 STAR hotels in the world. 

According to Wikipedia the 7 star hotel is part of The Centaurus mixed development project involving over 6.5 acres of land in Islamabad's arterial corridor, called Blue Area. The whole complex includes the 37 story 7 star hotel, two 21 story residential towers, a 25 story corporate office tower, and a 5 story shopping mall. The complex will also have a parking lot to accommodate over 2,000 vehicles. The Hotel and the complex is designed by the British architect firm WS Atkins PLC and is estimated to cost 350 million dollars. A special feature of the building is its earthquake resilience level. As Islamabad is situated in a earthquake zone the hotel is designed to withstand an earthquake of up to 9.5 magnitude.

The Centaurus 7 star hotel and building complex is built by Pak Gulf Construction (Pvt) Ltd (PGCL) of Islamabad which is a joint venture between Al Tamimi of Saudi Arabia and Sardar Builders of Pakistan. So like many other recent spectacular real estate development projects this also seems to be funded by Arab petrodollars.

Here are some more illustrations of how Pakistan’s Centaurus 7 star hotel will look like. 

Besides serving residential, commercial, and business purposes, the complex is intended to symbolize the growth of Pakistan, and to enable it to host international conferences and seminars in Pakistan's capital city.

The Centaurus rises in Islamabad. A huge, almost $400M infrastructure project that will be completed next year. Rapid construction in progress.

Maharani of Jaipur Gayatri Devi

People's princess, Rajmata of Jaipur, Gayatri Devi has left behind a timeless legacy of grace and beauty. Charismatic Jaipur royal Rajmata Gayatri Devi, a three-time MP and who was once named as ''World''s Ten Most Beautiful Women'' by ''Vogue'' magazine, died here today following a prolonged illness. She was 90.Gayatri, who became an extremely successful politician, breathed her last at Satokben Durlabh Memorial Hospital where she was readmitted yesterday for chest infection after she was discharged a few days ago. "She recovered from her gastrointestinal problems but yesterday she was detected with a lung infection.

Maharajah and Maharani of Jaipur at London Airport, May 17, 1956, to continue their annual European holiday. (AP Photo)

Britain's Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, stand with their hosts Maharajah and Maharanee of Jaipur, in the forests of Rajsthan, India, Jan. 24, 1961. From left; Prince Philip, unknown, unknown child, Maharajah of Jaipur, Queen, Maharanee Gayatri Devi, rest are unamed. The tiger in the foreground was shot by Prince Philip and the elephants used in the hunt are seen at the back. (AP Photo) The Maharani Gayatri Devi of Jaipur during a press conference she gave on the lawns of her new home in New Delhi, India, Jan. 12, 1967. (AP Photo) With notebook in hand Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, right, is shown the sights of Jaipur, India's famed 'Pink City', by Gayatri Devi, the former Maharani of Jaipur, Jan. 17, 1984. Mrs. Onassis is on a private vacation in India. (AP Photo) Maharani Gayatri Devi, left, enquires the welfare of a child, below, during the Maharaj Prithi Singh Foundation Polo Cup in Jaipur, India, Sunday, March 19, 2006. The cup was organized in memory of Maharaj Prithi Singh of Baria who was a player in the Jaipur polo Team, the reigning world champions in the 1930's in the world. On right is Rajmata Niranjana Devi of Kushalgarh. (AP Photo) Jaipur's Rajmata Gayatri Devi, left, Rajmata Niranjana Devi of Kushalgarh, center, and Maharaj Bhawani Singh of Jaipur walk after the Maharaj Prithi Singh Foundation Polo Cup match in Jaipur, India, in this Sunday, March 19, 2006 file photo. Gayatri Devi, once counted among the ten most beautiful women in the world, is in a legal battle with her estranged grandchildren, born to Devi's son late Jagat Singh and his divorced wife Thai princess Priyananda Ringsit, over the Jai Mahal palace, now a heritage hotel. (AP Photo) 1977 portrait of Mrs. Gayatri Devi, former Maharani of Jaipur, India. (AP Photo)