Thiruvananthapuram: The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has decided to set up its Kerala consulate here in the state capital, India's Minister of State for External Affairs E. Ahamed said on Thursday. "The decision to set up the consulate in Thiruvananthapuram is because of the rule that consulates can be set up only in state capitals. There are certain rules and guidelines and they have to be adhered too," Ahamed told...
05:17 PM, May 17, 2012
The Govt's plans to restructure AI involves re-structuring Rs 18,000 crore by converting Rs 10,500 crore into long-term debt with a lower interest rate. ...
09:34 PM, Apr 12, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: Two aircraft with a total of 395 passengers onboard narrowly escaped a mid-air collision as one of them landed within a minute after the other took off on the same runway at the international airport in Thiruvananthapuram on Friday. The possibility of a mishap was there as a Sri Lankan Airlines flight landed in the airport within a minute after Dubai-bound Emirates Airways flight took off, airport officials said....
06:40 PM, Dec 09, 2011
Doha: Air passengers flying out of Qatar can now have a "paperless" travel experience as the Emirates airline is now offering them the option of receiving their boarding passes on internet-enabled mobile phones. The mobile boarding pass can be scanned and read directly at all check-in counters, airport security check points and boarding gates in Doha. The service is available to all passengers who utilise Emirates' online check-in facility out...
02:12 PM, Nov 30, 2011
Dubai: Emirates airline placed a blockbuster order for 50 Boeing 777 jetliners at the Dubai Air Show on Sunday, underscoring the confidence brimming among fast-growing Gulf airlines despite growing fears of stalling global growth. The Dubai government-owned carrier, expanding its role as the world's largest operator of Boeing's most profitable plane, said the deal was worth $18 billion, the largest commercial order by value in the US planemaker's history. Reuters...
12:11 AM, Nov 14, 2011
Hyderabad: The world's largest airplane Airbus A380 made an emergency landing at Rajiv Gandhi International Airport on Sunday, an airport official said. The Emirates flight, with 481 passengers on board, was on its way from Bangkok to Dubai. "The aircraft landed with 481 passengers safely at 3.40 am," an airport spokesman told IANS. The pilot cited a technical snag in the aircraft as the reason for making the emergency landing...
11:22 AM, Oct 23, 2011
Mumbai: A Dubai-bound Emirates flight, with 202 people on board, landed under emergency conditions on Wednesday at the airport in Mumnai soon after take-off due to engine failure. "Following a crisis call from the Mumbai-Dubai Emirates flight (EK507), the air traffic control declared a full landing emergency at the airport at 1558 hours," a Mumbai International Airport Limited (MIAL) spokesperson said. He said the aircraft with 202 passengers and crew...
05:09 PM, Jul 27, 2011
Washington: US has condemned the violence in Yemen, including the attack on the Presidential Palace in Sanaa, and called for an immediate end to hostilities. "We call on all sides to cease hostilities immediately and to pursue an orderly and peaceful process of transferring political power as called for in the GCC-brokered agreement," White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said in a statement. Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh was wounded...
02:23 PM, Jun 04, 2011
Thiruvananthapuram: Playback singer KS Chithra's eight-year-old daughter drowned in a swimming pool in a villa in Dubai on Thursday, sources close to her family here said. The body of the child, Nandana, was found in the pool of the villa in Emirates Hills, where the singer was staying, the sources said. The child was rushed to hospital where she was declared dead. Chithra is in to Dubai to participate in...
10:07 AM, Apr 15, 2011
Melbourne: Superjumbo A380, world's flying wonder has manufacturing defects in its Trent engines that could lead to "catastrophic engine failures" in flight, Australian Flight Safety officials have warned. The officials have recommended that the airlines who are flying the superjumbos that use Rolls-Royce Trent 900 engines to carry out more checks as flaws could cause engine failures. As the safety officials pinpointed manufacturing defects in the engines, the country's airline...
03:11 PM, Dec 02, 2010
Kochi: A Kochi-Dubai Emirates flight with 205 passengers and 14 crew on board, on Tuesday made an emergency landing at the airport near here following a technical problem. The flight EK533 took off from the nearby Nedumbassery airport at 4.30 AM and made an emergency landing at 5 AM, airport sources said. A hydraulic system failure was suspected, the sources said. Passengers have been shifted to nearby hotels, they said....
11:15 AM, Oct 12, 2010
Emirates is the first airline to operate an airbus A380 flight out of New Delhi. ...
04:34 PM, Jul 18, 2010
The 517-seater A-380 made history when it became the first international airline to dock at the brand new Terminal 3. ...
04:20 PM, Jul 15, 2010
Man claims terrorist aboard flight from Mumbai to Dubai. ...
12:58 PM, Feb 07, 2010
His previous flight to Delhi had to make an emergency landing in Karachi. ...
04:36 PM, Sep 04, 2009
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