[Plugin: Simple Pagination] Pagination on custom listing template

Please see http://barplan.gobrandgo.net/news-events/

There is pagination for second page but second page appears same as first page.

I used the code:

<?php  $page = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1;  ?>
          <?php query_posts( array ( 'category_name' => 'News Events', 'posts_per_page' => 2, 'paged' => $page, 'order' => 'DESC' ) ); ?>

Instead of (‘paged’) I tried with (‘page’) also.

Any help is appreciated.

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/simple-pagination/