Mumbai: Market regulator SEBI has begun initial probe into the 'flash crash' of NSE index Nifty, which fell by nearly 900 points on Friday morning, halting the trade on the exchange for about 15 minutes. While the National Stock Exchange (NSE) blamed "abnormal" orders placed by stock broker Emkay Global in multiple trades of various stocks at low prices for the crash, sources said that regulator is looking into all...
02:34 PM, Oct 05, 2012
Kathmandu: A plane en route to Lukla in Nepal's Mount Everest region with 19 people on board crashed on the outskirts of Kathmandu on Friday, reportedly killing all 19 people on board. The Sita Air twin-engine propeller plane crashed near the Manohara River on the southwest edge of the Nepalese capital two hours after it took off from the Tribhuvan International Airport. While the are is thickly populated, the plane...
08:21 AM, Sep 28, 2012
Paris: A 46-year-old diplomatic bag, found on Mont Blanc in the French Alps last month, was handed over to India by France but the contents were not immediately known. The jute bag, stamped "Diplomatic mail" and "Ministry of External Affairs", was recovered by a mountain rescue worker on August 21 on Mont Blanc close to where an Air India plane flying from Mumbai to New York crashed in January 1966...
11:43 PM, Sep 03, 2012
Spa-Francorchamps: The Belgian Grand Prix crash that got Frenchman Romain Grosjean banned for a race has stoked ongoing debate about cockpit safety in Formula One without providing any clearer solution to the problem. Grosjean's Lotus lifted into the air and skimmed across the front of championship leader Fernando Alonso's Ferrari in the first corner pile-up, wrecking his car but fortunately missing the Spaniard's head. The incident, blamed squarely on Grosjean's...
03:28 PM, Sep 03, 2012
Seattle: Richard Bach, the author of the 1970s best-selling novella "Jonathan Livingston Seagull" among other spiritually oriented books rooted in themes of flight and self-discovery, was in serious condition on Saturday after his small plane crashed. The SeaRey single-engine amphibian aircraft clipped power lines on Friday at 4:30 pm about three miles (5 kilometers) west of Friday Harbor Airport, according to Ian Gregor, a public affairs manager for the Federal...
04:27 PM, Sep 02, 2012
Jamnagar: In a tragic incident near the Jamnagar Air Force Station in Gujarat, as many as nine air force personnel on Thursday died in a mid-air collision as two MI 17 choppers collided five minutes after taking off on a sortie near the Sarmat firing range. The Russian-made choppers were flying very close to each other when their upper rotors came in contact causing the collision. "Nine IAF personnel "...
10:00 PM, Aug 30, 2012
At least nine Indian Air Force (IAF) personnel were killed in a mid-air collision of two MI-17 helicopters near Jamnagar Air Force Station in Gujarat on Thursday. ...
07:24 PM, Aug 30, 2012
Ahmedabad: At least nine Indian Air Force (IAF) personnel have been killed in a mid-air collision of two MI-17 helicopters near Jamnagar Air Force Station in Gujarat. The tragic accident in which five officers and four other ranks lost their lives took place at around 12:05 pm on Thursday; just five minutes after the helicopters had taken off from the Jamnagar Air Force station for a routine training sortie. The...
04:40 PM, Aug 30, 2012
Five minutes after taking off on training sorties, two Air Force helicopters collided mid-air in Gujarat, leaving eight dead. ...
03:53 PM, Aug 30, 2012
Ahmedabad: Eight Indian Air Force personnel were killed after two Air Force MI-17 helicopters crashed near Sarmat village in Jamnagar in Gujarat after a mid-air collision on Thursday. There were four people on board each MI-17 helicopter and all of them died in the tragic crash. One of the helicopters caught fire after the collision, which took place almost 20 kms from the Jamnagar Air Force Station. The helicopters had...
01:09 PM, Aug 30, 2012
Godhra: Religious guru Asaram Bapu and four others had a miraculous escape when their helicopter crashed just ahead of landing at a local college in Godhra on Wednesday, police said. They sustained minor injuries in the incident, police said. "The chartered helicopter Asaram Bapu and his followers were travelling in developed a technical snag prior to landing at Godhra Science college and fell from a considerable height," police officials said....
09:21 PM, Aug 29, 2012
Washington: Five Indian software professionals, all from Hyderabad, were killed when their out-of-control Chevrolet Camaro hit a tractor-trailer and burst into flames in a fiery crash on a highway near Oklahoma city on Friday, police said. The accident took place as the driver of the car, travelling south on the Interstate 235, lost control as it tried to merge onto the ramp toward southbound I-35, the Highway Patrol said. The...
11:12 AM, Aug 11, 2012
Bangalore: The mysterious woman, who gatecrashed into the Indian Olympic contingent's march past at the opening ceremony of the London Olympics, on Thursday regretted the incident, saying "it was an error of judgement" on her part. "It was an error of judgment. This act of mine disappointed many. I regret my action," she said here. The lady in question, Madhura Nagendra also clarified that she had not done any security...
07:47 AM, Aug 03, 2012
New Delhi: The impunity with which a woman gate-crashed India's parade at the Olympic opening ceremony would have surprised only the most reclusive Indian. It has been established that the "over excited" Madhura Honey was a member of the cast from the extravaganza and not a security threat. But her ingenuity has become the subject of debate for international media. Most Indians have a delightfully childlike trait; to assume that...
07:19 PM, Jul 30, 2012
London: A US businessman driving a classic Ferrari car worth more than 20 million pounds has been involved in the world's most expensive car crashes ever. Multi-millionaire Christopher Cox was driving the Ferrari 250 GTO with his wife Ann, who is understood to have suffered a broken leg in the accident in Central France. Cox was taking part in the 50th anniversary tour of the Ferrari 250 GTO - an...
05:23 AM, Jul 11, 2012
Arlington: It was Christmas Eve 1965 when the Air Force plane nicknamed "Spooky" took off from Vietnam for a combat mission. The crew sent out a "mayday" signal while flying over Laos, and after that, all contact was lost. Two days of searches turned up nothing. For years, that was all the families knew about what happened to the six servicemen aboard the plane. Now, nearly 50 years after the...
03:31 PM, Jul 09, 2012
Le Bourget (France): French air accident investigators say a combination of mistakes by inadequately trained pilots and faulty equipment caused an Air France jet to plunge into the Atlantic in 2009, killing all 228 people aboard. The BEA air accident investigation agency is recommending better training for pilots and stricter plane certification rules as a result of its three-year probe into the crash of Flight 447. The report lists a...
07:15 PM, Jul 05, 2012
Jakarta(Indonesia): An Indonesian Air Force plane has crashed into a housing complex in the capital and houses were reportedly burning. Alwi, an official at the East Jakarta Fire Brigade said the Fokker 27 turboprop aircraft crashed on June 21 near a street within Halim Perdanakusuma air base. Firefighters were dispatched to the site. Media reports quoted witnesses as saying at least eight houses were burning. ...
02:32 PM, Jun 21, 2012
