Fire alarm in Jet flight, 30 injured during evacuation

Panic gripped a Chennai-bound Jet Airways flight carrying 153 passengers after a fire alarm in the cockpit went off when the plane was on the taxiway for takeoff on Friday night and 30 of them were injured during evacuation by emergency chutes. As there was a sudden surge of passengers when they were being evacuated […]

Rahman to launch Delhi 2010 theme song today

Oscar lurate A R Rahman will introduce the theme song for the upcoming Commonwealth Games on Saturday. The Delhi Games Organising Committee has said that the Oscar award winner music director will be performing the song “Oh yaaro, India bula liya” on Saturday. However, the venue for the event has not yet been finalised. The […]

3 Foreign Troops Killed by IED in Afghanistan

Three International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) servicemembers were killed in separate improvised explosive device (IED) attacks in Afghanistan Friday. A press release issued by the ISAF said two of the victims were killed in an attack in eastern Afghanistan and the other in southern Afghanistan. No further information could be reached as the press release […]

RS adjourns twice on HM’s saffron terrorism remark

Opposition Shiv Sena and BJP created uproar in the Rajya Sabha over Home Minister P Chidambaram’s statement on rise in saffron terrorism leading to two adjournments of the House till noon on Friday. As soon as the House met for the day, Manohar Joshi (Shiv Sena) raised the issue of the Home Minister’s statement at […]

India asks China to show sensitivity to mutual concerns

India has said that the visit of Northern Commander Lt Gen BS Jaswal to China did not take place “due to certain reasons.” Ministry of External Affairs, in an official statement, made it clear that there must be sensitivity to each others’ concerns. The statement said that the dialogue with China on these issue is […]

US Administration imposes heavy penalty on American Airlines for safety lapses

The US Federal Aviation Administration said Thursday it has proposed a record 24.2 million-U.S. dollar civil penalty against American Airlines for safety lapses that caused thousands of cancelled flights in 2008. In a news release, the FAA alleged the Texas-based carrier failed to follow steps laid out in a 2006 airworthiness directive that required operators […]

I’m never Anti-Jewish: Castro

Cuban leader Fidel Castro has said  that he was  never against Jewish” and always hated both Nazism and Fascism Castro made the remarks while discussing an article by prominent Jewish American journalist Jeffrey Goldberg. “I was never anti-Jewish and I share with him a deep hatred against Nazi-Fascism and the genocide perpetrated against the Jewish […]

Military Chopper Crashes in Bangalore

A Chetak military helicopter of the Indian army crashed Friday in the southern Indian city of Bangalore, said sources.

Carter Leaves DPRK with Freed U.S. Citizen

Former US President Jimmy Carter left the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) Friday, wrapping up a visit that not only realized the release of a U.S. citizen, but also was widely seen as carrying much political weight. Carter and Aijalon Mahli Gomes, the U.S. man detained by the DPRK since January for entering the […]

India bans two Chinese defence offcials from visiting the country, revokes defence exchanges