New Delhi: Three DGCA officials have been suspended for issuing licences classifying 28 flying schools as charitable non-profit entities instead of fully commercial entities, Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh said on Thursday. He said based on investigation report submitted by the Chief Vigilance Officer in the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), it was decided to suspend the three officials alleged to have been involved in preparation of the list...
08:49 PM, May 17, 2012
Washington: The Mumbai attack perpetrated by Pakistan-based LeT was an example of how terror outfits use latest available IT tools for their decisive motives, a top US commander said, highlighting the role of cyber space in such events. "All the mission planning (for Mumbai terrorist attack) was done via Google Earth. There was no investment in technology of (intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance) platforms or anything like that," US Marine Corps...
03:18 PM, May 16, 2012
Chennai:Passengers in Delhi may be fretting over whether their flights might be cancelled, owing to the pilots' stir, but absolutely nothing of that sort was seen in Chennai. Not only were the air ticketing counters of the 'Maharaja' and the 'King of Good Times' busy as always, all flights left and arrived on time. It was business as usual as Air India operated all 30 flights without trouble, while Kingfisher...
08:52 AM, May 11, 2012
NEW DELHI: The price for various services at Chennai Airport may see a 90 per cent hike as Airports Authority of India (AAI) has proposed a User Development Fee (UDF) of Rs 160 and Rs 500 on domestic and international passengers, respectively.The proposal for UDF as well as other charges is now with the Airports Economic Regulatory Authority of India (AERA), which is likely to give its final decision in...
11:09 AM, May 07, 2012
New York: High-wire performer Nik Wallenda announced on Wednesday that June 15 is the day his boyhood dream to walk a tightrope over Niagara Falls will become a reality. Wallenda, 33, a seventh-generation member of the famed "Flying Wallendas" family of circus performers, is set to walk a 2-inch (5 cm) cable strung 1,800 feet (550 meters) across Niagara Falls gorge - the first such tight rope feat between the...
10:18 AM, May 03, 2012
New Delhi: Fly Mobiles has launched a new phone Fly Vision E 370, which has been priced at Rs 5,099. The phone features a 3.7-inch (9.5cm) HVGA 262K touchscreen with a resolution of 320 X 480 pixels. Powered by the feature phone turbo chip processor ARM 9, the handset is claimed to allow faster webpage loading and smoother UI transitions. The phone sports a 5 megapixel camera. The phone comes...
11:26 AM, Apr 17, 2012
Mumbai: In chaos theory, the butterfly effect is used to describe how a small change at one place can result in large differences to a later state. The name of the effect is derived from the example of a hurricanes formation being contingent on whether or not a distant butterfly had flapped its wings several weeks before. The MMRDA seems to be firm believers in this theory. Soon after Thursday...
01:08 PM, Apr 14, 2012
Its lead star is a housefly and the first look of this Telugu film titled Eega is already making a buzz. ...
10:10 PM, Apr 05, 2012
Chennai: With the death of a motorist, whose throat was slit by a maanja thread, (glass coated string) used for flying kites, at Maduravoyal, the popular sport claimed its first victim of the year on Sunday. According to police, Raj Kumar (28), a catering service provider from Naduvankarai, Aminjikarai was on his way to his catering factory in Vanagaram on his motorcycle early on Sunday, when the incident occurred. Near...
10:33 AM, Apr 02, 2012
New Delhi: A Delhi court has refused to discharge an employee of an international food chain who allegedly sold a 'Veggi Crunch' pizza containing a dead housefly. Additional Sessions Judge Neena Bansal Krishna dismissed the revision petition filed by Sandeep Kumar, who was working at Pizza Hut's Dwarka outlet, seeking discharge in the case. "The presence of a dead housefly in the food item would prime make the food unfit...
07:53 PM, Mar 30, 2012
Roopa Farooki's new book is unlike anything else I have read by her earlier. Even the writing for that matter is different from her other books. 'The Flying Man' is about a man's life, lived through cities and countries and in various disguises, from where the title comes about. 'The Flying Man' did take me some time to get into, as it didn't start with the aplomb I thought it...
12:40 PM, Mar 10, 2012
New Delhi: A stale plot, coupled with unimpressive performances result in a movie like Diary of a Butterfly. Directed by Vinod Mukhi, the film stars Udita Goswami, Rati Agnihotri, Harsh Chhaya, Sofia Hayat, Rajeev Singh and others. The film revolves around a Jaipur girl Gul (Udita Goswami), who's hungry for success and shifts to Mumbai to pursue her career with a fashion house. Before you even realise, from a fresher...
11:07 PM, Mar 02, 2012
New Delhi: Government on Friday ordered suspension of a top officer of aviation regulator DGCA and two other staffers on charges of causing a loss of Rs 190 crore to the public exchequer by granting undue concessions to 28 flying schools across the country. Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh, who reviewed the case relating to granting of concessions to the flying schools in 2007 that was probed by the Central...
07:35 PM, Mar 02, 2012
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