Cidahu: A helicopter spotted the shattered wreckage of a Russian-made passenger plane Thursday that crashed into a steep cliff on a long-dormant Indonesian volcano during a demonstration flight to potential buyers and journalists. There was no sign of survivors among the 47 people on board. Family members, many of whom spent a long, sleepless night at the airport, broke down in tears on hearing the news. Others stared blankly ahead...
08:36 AM, May 10, 2012
Jakarta: A Russian-made plane carrying 46 people lost contact with air controllers while flying over mountains during a demonstration flight on Wednesday in western Indonesia, officials said. Search and rescue teams were heading to the area, said Bambang Ervan, a spokesman for the Ministry of Transportation. Bad weather, however, forced at least two helicopters to turn back. The Sukhoi Superjet-100, a civilian plane, took off from Jakarta's Halim Perdanakusuma Airport...
06:16 PM, May 09, 2012
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Vladimir Putins return to presidency in Russia will be the subject of a discussion here on Monday. The second-time president taking oath of office will be viewed live on the TV channel Russia Today at the discussion. Putin will assume office at 12 noon Moscow time (1.30 pm, Indian time). The discussion will be held simultaneously here, said Ratheesh C Nair, Russias Honorary Consul. The panel of political observers...
01:02 PM, May 07, 2012
Moscow: A passenger plane crashed in Siberia shortly after taking off on Monday morning, killing 32 of the 43 people on board, Russian emergency officials said. The 11 survivors were hospitalized in serious condition. The ATR-72, a French-Italian-made twin-engine turboprop, operated by UTair was flying from Tyumen to the oil town of Surgut with 39 passengers and four crew. The aircraft went down on a snowy field outside Tyumen, a...
09:08 AM, Apr 02, 2012
Moscow: Meteor-1, the Soviet Union's first fully operational weather satellite, will Monday night re-enter the Earth's atmosphere after more than four decades in orbit, the web site of the US Strategic Command said. The Meteor satellite series was developed in the Soviet Union during the sixties. On March 26, 1969, a Vostok rocket launched Meteor-1, the very first version of the Soviet Meteor satellite network, into orbit. The satellite terminated...
11:59 AM, Mar 27, 2012
Washington: Six International Space Station (ISS) astronauts rushed to safety as a piece of a Russian satellite whizzed by. The astronauts orbiting 320 km above the planet were stirred from their slumber Saturday to jump into emergency escape pods. They were told by the ground control to scramble into two docked Soyuz spacecrafts in case a piece of a wrecked Russian satellite should smash into the ISS. The emergency was...
11:13 AM, Mar 25, 2012
Moscow: Vladimir Putin won a resounding victory in Russia's presidential election on Sunday, exit polls showed, securing a new six-year term in the Kremlin and a mandate to deal with opposition protests after a vote that opponents said was marred by fraud. Two television exit polls, released after voting ended at 1700 GMT, forecast the prime minister would win 59.3 and 58.3 per cent of the votes, easily enough to...
12:20 AM, Mar 05, 2012
Moscow: Russians started voting Sunday to elect the country's president for the fifth time in the nation's post-Soviet history, the first in which the president will serve a six-year term. Five candidates - Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, Communist leader Gennady Zyuganov, nationalist Liberal Democratic Party head Vladimir Zhirinovsky, A Just Russia Party leader Sergei Mironov and the only independent, billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov - vie for the Russian presidency in Sunday's...
09:00 AM, Mar 04, 2012
New Delhi: The son of BSP MLA from Uttar Pradesh allegedly barged into the house of a young Russian woman in south Delhi on February 28 and assaulted her before decamping with her passport, mobile phone and debit card. The incident was reported from the 24-year-old Russian woman's house in Mehrauli. The complainant alleged that a drunk Vivek Singh, son of BSP MLA Chandraveer Singh, barged into her house and...
12:00 PM, Mar 01, 2012
Guus Hiddink has signed a contract to become the new manager of Anzhi Makhachkala, Goal.com can reveal. The Dutchman has agreed an 18-month deal to take over the wealthy Russian club, which is his first permanent club post in six years. It is expected that the appointment will be announced within the next 24 hours and that Hiddink will join up with the Anzhi squad at a training camp in...
09:52 PM, Feb 17, 2012
Minsk: A gold bar weighing one kilogram was dropped into a charity collection box in the Belarussian city of Brest, a media report said on Friday The gold bar was discovered in a charity box set up in a grocery store to collect money for the Orthodox Church, the ONT television reported. The anonymous donor also slipped the $50,000 gold brick's certificate of authentication into the collection box. According to...
05:06 PM, Feb 11, 2012
London: Tottenham signed striker Louis Saha from Premier League rivals Everton and reached a deal to offload Roman Pavlyuchenko to Lokomotiv Moscow in the final hours of the transfer window on Tuesday. Manager Harry Redknapp signed Saha despite the 33-year-old Frenchman scoring just twice in 20 appearances for Everton this season and struggling with injuries in recent years. "He's got good movement, can score goals but probably needs a change,"...
08:41 AM, Feb 01, 2012
Panaji: Around 500 Russian tourists have been stranded at Goa airport as a result of a sudden suspension of operations by Russia's biggest tour operator Lanta Tur Voyage due to its "financial collapse". The tour operator announced the stoppage of operations, airport officials said adding many tourists were stranded at the airport since Friday night while many others were staying put in various hotels. "Many tourists had arrived in the...
10:32 PM, Jan 28, 2012
Moscow: A Russian space probe designed to boost the nation's pride on a bold mission to a moon of Mars came down in flames today, showering fragments into the south Pacific west of Chile's coast, officials said. Pieces from the Phobos-Ground, which had become stuck in Earth's orbit, landed in water 1,250 kilometers (775 miles) west of Wellington Island in Chile's south, the Russian military Air and Space Defense Forces...
10:04 AM, Jan 16, 2012
New Delhi: External Affairs Minister SM Krishna on Tuesday conveyed to Russian Ambassador Alexander Kadakin the country's concern over the 'sensitive' issue of a Siberain court hearing a petition seeking a ban on Bhagavad Gita. Ahead of the court hearing on Wednesday, Krishna called Kadakin and told him that the Russian Government should provide all possible help to resolve the issue. Taking up the issue, which has created a uproar...
01:34 PM, Dec 27, 2011
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