Yangon: Two passengers have been injured when a plane landing in Myanmar shot past the end of the runway when its brakes failed. The Facebook page of Myanmar state radio and TV reported that a Fokker plane of Myanmar Airways carrying 55 passengers went 200 meters past the end of the runway at Monghsat in northern Shan state on Thursday before it hit a fence and stopped.
It said a wing and a wheel were damaged, and two passengers suffered broken arms. The two, who were not identified, were treated at a nearby military hospital.
The flight had departed from Heho, also in Shan State. A Fokker aircraft belonging to Air Bagan crash-landed in Shan State in December, killing two and injuring 11.
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09:44 PM, May 16, 2013
New Delhi: BJP leader Sushma Swaraj has welcomed the demand for bringing back the mortal remains of last Mughal Emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar from Rangoon in Myanmar for its burial in Delhi. Supporting the demand, the Leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha said this will be a befitting tribute to the last Mughal Emperor in the country. "I welcome and support the demand to bring back the mortal remains...
01:43 AM, May 09, 2013
New Delhi: Legendary singer Shamshad Begum, one of the first playback singers in the Hindi film industry and voice behind hit songs like 'Mere Piya Gaye Rangoon', 'Kabhi Aar Kabhi Paar' and 'Kajra Mohabbat Wala', has died at her Mumbai residence. She was 94. "She was not keeping well for past few months and was admitted to the hospital. She passed away last night. The funeral was a solemn affair...
10:22 AM, Apr 24, 2013
When you finish reading a book of a stature such as "A Visit from the Goon Squad" by Jennifer Egan, you sit down, breathe and keep breathing, till the breath paces itself out and you aren't gasping anymore. The effect of books has to be this way. It has to have the maddening reaction in a reader - the gasping, the constant thinking about the characters and more so how...
12:24 PM, Apr 20, 2013
Chennai: For the first time in Tamil Nadu, the stringent Goondas Act was on Tuesday slapped on a man arrested on the charge of sexually assaulting a three-year old girl. Shahis, running a textile shop, was arrested along with a juvenile on a complaint from the mother of the girl that they had sexually assaulted the child on January 16 last, a police release said. Cases were registered against them...
06:49 PM, Apr 10, 2013
Bulandshahr: The callous response of police came to fore when a 10-year-old girl, who was allegedly raped, was put behind bars by women police officials after she approached them to file a complaint along with her mother. Two women constables have been suspended while two sub-Inspectors including the station-in-charge have been sent to police lines following the incident, SSP Gulab Singh said. The survivor spent several hours behind the bars...
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09:52 PM, Mar 16, 2013
Would you like to contribute to charity by going on a luxury bus ride? A concept initiated by banker-cum-philanthropist Madhabi Puri Buch, the Ashok Leyland Luxura Magical India Bus gives you the comfort of a house on wheels. Buch, who works as a fund raiser for the Founder Toofles Foundation, says, "The idea was actually quite simple that normally Toofles Foundation did events which were one time event to raise...
08:58 AM, Feb 26, 2013
Firing the latest salvo in his war of words with the Mamata Banerjee government, West Bengal Governor MK Narayanan on Friday quipped he was "glad" to be safe, countering a minister's comments that the regime was keeping a watch on him. "I'm glad that I am safe," Narayanan replied on Friday on the sidelines of a programme in Kolkata when asked to react to the minister's comment that he was...
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10:52 PM, Jan 11, 2013
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09:10 PM, Jan 11, 2013
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11:23 PM, Oct 10, 2012
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01:17 PM, Aug 08, 2012
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