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
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
London: Children who suffer from bullying in their early years are more likely than their peers to engage in self harm as adolescents, a new study has suggested. Researchers at the King's College London found that half of the self-harming 12-year-olds they looked at in the study were frequently bullied. The research, published in the British Medical Journal, also showed that victimised children with mental health problems were at greater...
05:13 AM, Apr 30, 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
Washington: Computer scientists, taking inspiration from the human face, are exploring whether machines can detect lies. In a study of 40 videotaped conversations, an automated system that analysed eye movements correctly identified whether subjects were lying or telling the truth 82.5 per cent of the time. That's a better accuracy rate than expert human interrogators typically achieve in lie-detection experiments, said Ifeoma Nwogu, research assistant professor at University of Buffalo's...
04:56 PM, Mar 27, 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: 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
New Delhi: The Oscars for the Best Short Film (Animated) went to William Joyce and Brandon Oldenburg for 'The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore'. Here's the onstage speech by Joyce and Oldenberg. William Joyce: Like look, we're just these two, like swamp rats from Louisiana and this is incredibly grand. We love the movies. We love the movies more than anything. It's been a part of our lives...
03:33 PM, Feb 27, 2012
As you visit any of the shops selling kites, you will discover the gloom that greeted one at the start of the week is replaced with a sigh of relief. After all, with the city's denizens on a kite shopping spree, traders who complained of lacklustre business till last week have finally got their smiles back. If you are wondering where to spot that Chinese-designer kite besides the humble paper...
08:54 AM, Jan 14, 2012
New Delhi: Colombian singing sensation Shakira will croon and also possibly act in a feature film whose cast will comprise some leading names of Indian and Bangladeshi cinema, the film's director Enamul Karim Nirjhar of Bangladesh said today. Shakira will lend her voice to five songs and the music will be composed by India's Debajyoti Mishra for the proposed film. Titled 'Desire The Flying Butter', the film will be co-produced...
04:49 PM, Jan 07, 2012
CHENNAI: There was a scare at the domestic airport here on Wednesday evening, when a woman passenger attempted to check-in with a duffel bag filled with bullets. Surya allegedly walked into the airport at 4 pm to board the 5.15 pm Spicejet flight to Madurai. According to airport sources, the woman gave her black bag for screening as she wanted to carry it on board. When CISF personnel manning the...
08:37 AM, Nov 11, 2011
New Delhi: The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has found blatant disregard of norms by several flying schools across the country. The DGCA has warned the schools that there permits will be cancelled if they fail to comply with the guidelines. Audits of as many as 40 flying schools were carried out by the DGCA in the wake of the fake pilot scam in which licenses of more than...
05:29 PM, Oct 31, 2011
London: Irish boy band Westlife are set to part ways after 14 years of being together. The group consisting of Nicky Byrne, Kian Egan, Mark Feehily and Shane Filan have sold over 44 million albums worldwide. They plan to split after the 'Greatest Hits' record this Christmas and farewell tour next year, reports contactmusic.com. "Over the years, Westlife has become so much more to us than just a band, we...
02:22 PM, Oct 21, 2011
New Delhi: A three-wheeled rickshaw hardly seems the vehicle of choice for travelling thousands of kilometers and crossing 14 countries. Yet the 'Flying Rani', a black-and-yellow auto rickshaw with a 175 cc engine, managed the trip from London to New Delhi, forging up steep slopes and through yawning potholes, with only one minor mishap. "It has driven 10,200 kilometres and only got one flat tyre," said Sanjay Sharma, 44, a...
02:22 PM, Sep 23, 2011
Mumbai: Despite several complaints and investigations into fake license rackets across the country, an RTI filed by CNN-IBN reveals that the DGCA has taken almost no action against any of the schools involved. Despite a growing clamour for many of them to be shut down, not a single school has been disbarred or blacklisted till date. In an open admission, a flying instructor at SVKM Flying Academy in Maharashtra told...
08:59 PM, Jul 28, 2011
You will need a sports pilots licence to drive the recently cleared flying car by Terrafugia. ...
03:41 PM, Jul 13, 2011
San Francisco: Facebook and Time Warner are ganging up on bullies to address a problem that torments millions of children and young adults. The partnership announced Tuesday calls for Facebook and Time Warner to use their clout to raise awareness about bullying and encourage more people to report the abuses when they see them. Facebook's participation reflects a growing recognition that its online social network consisting of more than 750...
08:25 AM, Jul 13, 2011
