New Delhi: Actress Zarine Khan, who once weighed 100 kg, shed her weight to make a mark in the entertainment industry but the 'Character Dheela' girl doesn't believe in crash diets and prefers balanced eating habits. "I am blessed with very beautiful parents. Thanks to them that genetically I have got such a clear and nourished skin," said the one-film-old actress who was here Thursday to launch the VLCC Daily...
07:16 PM, Sep 29, 2011
Jakarta: Transportation Ministry spokesman Bambang Ervan on Thursday said that a small plane carrying 18 people crashed in western Indonesia. He said the CASA C-212 aircraft went down on Thursday in the North Sumatran village of Bahorok. It was carrying three crew members and 15 passengers. Ervan says rescuers received reports about the crash from local residents and were still trying reach the scene. Indonesia, a sprawling archipelagic nation of...
10:11 AM, Sep 29, 2011
Chennai: A plane crash in Bisankunarayan village, a few miles away from Kathmandu on Sunday has left all 19 people on board dead. Among the dead, ten passengers were Indians and eight of them were members of the Builders Association of India hailing from Trichy in Tamil Nadu. Central board member Goutaman said, "Our Builders Association conference was taking place in New Delhi. Eight employees had gone to take part...
09:24 PM, Sep 25, 2011
Cape Canaveral: A six-tonne NASA science satellite crashed to Earth on Saturday, leaving a mystery about where a tonne of space debris may have landed. The US space agency said it believes the debris ended up in the Pacific Ocean, but the precise time of the bus-sized satellite's re-entry and the location of its debris field have not been determined. The Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite, or UARS, ended 20 years...
12:07 PM, Sep 25, 2011
Kathmandu: The passenger plane carrying 19 people that went missing in Nepal crashed in Kathmandu on Sunday, killing all the people onboard. Out of the 16 tourists, 10 were Indians, said Apoorva Srivastava, the spokesperson of the Indian Embassy in Nepal. She also said that the Nepalese government has deployed two helicopters to carry out rescue operations and to bring back the bodies. She said that the weather was perfectly...
09:24 AM, Sep 25, 2011
The aircraft, a vintage plane built in the 1950's crashed in a fireball at a show in West Virginia on Saturday. ...
12:33 PM, Sep 18, 2011
Reno: A vintage World War II-era fighter plane plunged into the grandstands on Friday during a popular annual air show, killing at least three people, injuring more than 50 spectators and creating a horrific scene strewn with body parts and smoking debris. The plane, flown by an 80-year-old pilot, spiraled suddenly out of control and appeared to disintegrate upon impact. Bloodied bodies were spread across the area as people tended...
07:52 AM, Sep 17, 2011
Johannesburg: At least 30 people were killed, including three generals, when an Angolan military aircraft crashed on Wednesday at an airport in Huambo, local media said. The plane with 36 people on board belonged to the air force and authorities were trying to reach the crash site, 550 kms (330 miles) southwest of the capital Luanda, Radio Nacional de Angola and news agency Angop said in reports monitored in Johannesburg....
01:56 AM, Sep 15, 2011
Chandigarh: A MiG-21 'Bison' fighter aircraft of the Indian Air Force on Tuesday crashed near Shambu in Punjab's Patiala district during a routine sortie even as the pilot bailed out safely, the fourth mishap this year involving such an aircraft type. The plane had taken off from Ambala and crashed at 1027 hours, 30 kms from Chandigarh, as it was returning to Air Force Station. A Court of Inquiry (CoI)...
07:41 PM, Sep 06, 2011
Chandigarh: A MiG-21 'Bison' fighter aircraft of the Indian Air Force on Tuesday crashed near Shambu in Punjab's Patiala district even as the pilot bailed out safely. The plane had taken off from Ambala on a routine training sortie and crashed at 10:47 am, an IAF spokesperson said in Delhi. According to preliminary information it crashed in the fields close to Shambu, about 30 kms from here, Patiala's Senior Superintendent...
12:00 PM, Sep 06, 2011
New Delhi: A division bench of Kerala High Court on Thursday set aside the verdict of single-judge bench of the same court asking Air India to pay over Rs 75 lakh compensation to families of each of 158 victims of May 2010 Mangalore air crash. Air India on August 12 filed an appeal before the division bench challenging the the July 20 order holding Air India's 'no fault liability' at...
03:28 PM, Aug 25, 2011
Resolute Bay: A chartered Boeing 737-200 plane crashed on Saturday afternoon as it was approaching an airport in Canada's Arctic region, killing 12 people and injuring three, police said. Residents of the tiny hamlet of Resolute Bay in the Arctic territory of Nunavut and soldiers from a nearby military exercise rushed to the scene in a desperate effort to try and pull survivors from the flaming wreckage. First Air charter...
09:04 AM, Aug 21, 2011
Moscow: A light plane crashed near Russia's second largest city of St Petersburg, killing all four people onboard, rescue service officials said. The crash occurred 50 km from St Petersburg near the town of Ropsha, Xinhua reported citing the Interfax news agency. The cause was still unclear and an investigation was underway, an official said. It was the second crash involving a light plane near St Petersburg in four days....
08:41 AM, Aug 21, 2011
Rio de Janerio: A helicopter belonging to Brazil's oil and gas company Petrobras has disappeared with four people onboard in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Rio de Janeiro, the company said. Petrobras said the helicopter was returning from a drilling platform on the Atlantic shelf when contact with the pilot was lost some 100 km from the coast. Poor weather conditions may be to blame as there were...
08:26 AM, Aug 21, 2011
New Delhi: The cash-strapped Air India (AI) does not want to pay compensation of Rs 75 lakh to victims of the 2010 Mangalore Air India crash. Air India on Friday appealed against the High Court order despite earlier assurances that there will be no delay in paying compensation. Air India filed an appeal in the division bench of the Kerala High Court after a single bench of the same court...
06:32 PM, Aug 12, 2011
London: Fans of John Denver have suffered a setback after a campaign to name a peak in the Colorado Rockies after the singer has been blocked by the US officials. The movement gained momentum in the recent weeks when more than 2,000 people signed a petition to rename Mount Sopris in honour of Denver, who wrote his hit 1972 track 'Rocky Mountain High' while camping nearby, reported Contactmusic. But the...
12:20 PM, Aug 10, 2011
This came after a CNN-IBN report exposing how the Calicut airport has no runway safety area. ...
12:32 PM, Aug 09, 2011
Mau: The black box of the Jaguar fighter aircraft that crashed in Dilahi Firozpur village, killing a pilot and a girl, was found on Saturday. The black box or digital flight data recorder, which was essential for probing the cause of the crash, was located by the village youths in a pit filled with water this afternoon and was handed over to the IAF personnel, police said. The debris of...
04:34 PM, Aug 06, 2011
A Civil Aviation Safety Advisory Council report accessed by CNN-IBN, warns an accident similar to the Mangalore airport crash waiting to happen at Calicut airport. ...
11:17 AM, Aug 06, 2011
