Los Angeles: Rapper 50 Cent, who rose to fame with songs that told of drug use and violence, is aiming to steer teenagers away from schoolyard bullying with a book called 'Playground' that will reach stores in January, his publisher said on Monday. The story 50 Cent will pen is about a 13 year-old bully who learns to mend his ways after witnessing the harm he caused, according to Penguin...
12:17 PM, Jun 21, 2011
New York: Boys who are bullies at school are at increased risk of abusing their partner later in life -- a link that US researchers say could hold potential for curbing domestic violence, which affects about a fourth of all US women. While their study, published in the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, can't tease out cause and effect, the link appears to be surprisingly strong and warrants further...
09:31 AM, Jun 07, 2011
Jaipur: The Rajasthan Anti-Corruption Bureau has registered a case against the son of former BJP minister Madan Dilawar and three others for procuring commercial pilot licenses by allegedly furnishing fake documents. The cases were registered against Pawan Dilawar, Ankur Garg, Sidharth Lochab and Rohan Saxena this week, police said today. Madan Dilawar was the Minister of Social Justice in the previous BJP government. The four allegedly faked flying hours in...
11:20 AM, May 27, 2011
Boston: Facebook has 7.5 million users who are underage and are "not supposed" to be using the social networking site, according to a new report. Of the 20 million minors who actively used Facebook in the past year, more than one-third or about 7.5 million were younger than 13 and not supposed to be able to use the site, Consumer Reports, an American consumer advocacy publication, said in a study....
08:23 AM, May 11, 2011
New Delhi: Dorjee Khandu joined a long list of politicians, who died in similar aerial accidents, that includes YS Rajasekhara Reddy, Sanjay Gandhi, Madhavrao Scindia, Lok Sabha speaker GMC Balayogi, S Mohan Kumaramangalam, OP Jindal, Surendra Singh, Dera Natung and C Sangma. But who is to blame for the accidents? Is it nature playing spoilt sport, human error or plain political pressure? "All machines are good machines all pilots are ...
09:46 PM, May 04, 2011
New Delhi: Dorjee Khandu joined a long list of politicians, who died in similar aerial accidents, that includes YS Rajasekhara Reddy, Sanjay Gandhi, Madhavrao Scindia, Lok Sabha speaker GMC Balayogi, S Mohan Kumaramangalam, OP Jindal, Surendra Singh, Dera Natung and C Sangma. But who is to blame for the accidents? Is it nature playing spoilt sport, human error or plain political pressure? "All machines are good machines all pilots are...
09:46 PM, May 04, 2011
London: Adolf Hitler tried to build a fleet of flying saucers to attack London and New York, a media report said. The Sun reported that one alleged site of production of the Nazi UFOs is a series of tunnels buried under the Jonas Valley in Thuringia, central Germany. Under the command of SS General Hans Kammler, slave labourers there toiled to bring Hitler's fantasies into existence, it said. The German...
12:48 PM, Apr 27, 2011
Ex-DGCA official and three others pilots were arrested by Delhi Police on Saturday in connection with the fake pilot scam. They are accused of helping other pilots to forge their exam results in order to obtain a flying licence. ...
10:37 PM, Mar 26, 2011
New Delhi: An ex-DGCA official and three others were arrested by the Delhi Police in connection with the fake pilot scam on Saturday. They are accused of helping other pilots forge their exam results to obtain a flying licence. Earlier this month, Captain Parminder Gulati and Captain JK Verma were arrested for submitting fake marksheets to get their Airlines Transport Pilot Licences (ATPL). Further investigations have revealed that Captain Verma...
10:03 PM, Mar 26, 2011
New Delhi: An ex-DGCA official and three others were arrested in connection with the fake pilot scam on Saturday. It's the first time a former official from the apex aviation regulatory body has been arrested. Pradeep Kumar was removed from his post as assistant director of licensing some months ago over various allegations of corruption. He was among three others including a pilot Pradeep Tyagi who was picked up by...
10:03 AM, Mar 26, 2011
According to the test results sheet, out of hundreds of students who wrote the CPL exams in 2010, only 12 passed in one subject and for another paper out of 723 people, no one passed. ...
09:31 PM, Mar 25, 2011
New Delhi: Flying in India is flawed from the time you even dream of becoming a pilot. The examination paper is almost tailored to make sure, they rarely succeed, even after spending close to Rs 35 lakh. An aspiring pilot said, "I wanted to be a fighter pilot, but my eyesight is not 6/6. So, I joined commercial flying from fighter flying." But getting a licence to become a commercial...
08:25 PM, Mar 25, 2011
New Delhi: India's Flight training schools charge exorbitant fees from budding pilots. An RTI reveals that these schools are using phased out aircraft and instructors with questionable credentials. Every year, some 1800 students obtain a CPL or commercial pilots license from India's flying schools. But the reply to an RTI filed by CNN-IBN lays bare the quality of the training of these pilots: the DGCA's list of accidents over the...
07:42 AM, Mar 24, 2011
The Rajasthan anti-corruption bureau has arrested 2 pilots employed with Spice Jet for manipulating their flying records to obtain Commercial Pilot licenses. ...
10:25 PM, Mar 23, 2011
Jaipur/Mumbai: The story of fake pilots and phantom flying schools is getting scarier. It's turning out to be much more than just a one off case or at best a few. Two days after two fake pilots employed with spice jet were arrested for foraged flying hours from the government-run Rajasthan Flying School, CNN-IBN has accessed names of eight more pilots, who are still flying and could soon be arrested....
10:04 PM, Mar 23, 2011
CNNIBN exposes the flying institute at the forefront in issuing fake flying certificates. ...
10:15 PM, Mar 22, 2011
Jaipur: Rajasthan Flying School could hold the key to the mystery of many dubious pilots who are flying you around. The flying school was closed in 2008 because the only aircraft it had was grounded. Just to reiterate, it does have an aircraft to train pilots. The same government-run flying school gave flying hours to students till six months back - offcourse for a price. Two students of the institute...
08:56 PM, Mar 22, 2011
Ipswich: A father in Ipswich was so angry having caught his children bullying a boy who wore glasses, he marched them off to the police station to have them charged for assault. The father, known only as Matt, told a Brisbane radio station he saw his 17-year-old son and 15-year-old daughter bashing up a 13-year-old boy, breaking his jaw, because he wore glasses, the Sydney Morning Herald reported. He told...
03:15 PM, Mar 18, 2011
New Delhi: The crime branch of the Delhi Police is probing the role of the officials of aviation regulator Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) in granting fake pilot licenses. BJP spokesperson Rajiv Pratap Rudy, who is also a qualified pilot, says the DGCA must probe how pilots with phoney degrees were allowed to fly. As witnessed by investigations, it all started with the Rajasthan flying club, where the anti-corruption...
12:30 PM, Mar 15, 2011
London: Facebook users can now tell a "trusted friend" if they feel they are being bullied or harassed online, thanks to a new option introduced by the popular social networking site. Facebook has said that its reporting option allows members to alert someone in their support system, like parents or teachers, to the problem so that online behaviour is linked to "real world consequences". "Often the best way of sorting...
03:43 PM, Mar 11, 2011
