Maranello: Ferrari are pleased with their car but ruing mishaps which have limited their success in the first four Formula One races.
Fernando Alonso's performances are emblematic of the team's mixed success. He won the Chinese Grand Prix and finished second in Australia but a collision forced him to retire in Malaysia and mechanical problems led to an eighth-place finish in Bahrain.
The team's chief designer, Nikolas Tombazis, rates their performance so far at 6 out of 10.
He said the third-placed team remains positive and "reasonably optimistic about the rest of the season, with a sense that we can fight for wins and the championship."...
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06:17 PM, May 07, 2013
Mumbai: A freak 18 vehicle pile-up in Mumbai left two people dead and six injured on Friday evening. It has also brought traffic on the Jogeshwari-Vikhroli Link Road to a standstill. The accident happened when a dumper hit several cars and auto rickshaws. Most of the vehicles are said to be private ones. The driver of the dumper has been arrested. ...
07:25 PM, Apr 12, 2013
Kozhikode: Three NIT-Kozhikode students hailing from Andhra Pradesh were killed and four others injured when their car collided with a lorry near Vadakara in the district on Sunday, police said. The students of the National Institute of Technology here were proceeding to a nearby place on a weekend trip when the mishap occurred at Kainatti Punchirimillil. The deceased were identified as Harish (21), Raju (19) and Hitesh (21) police said....
04:10 PM, Apr 07, 2013
Ten persons were feared drowned and many others missing when a country boat capsized in the Ganga in Bihar's Bhagalpur district Saturday morning. ...
02:00 PM, Mar 23, 2013
Five people have gone missing after a mechanised country boat capsized in West Bengal's Howrah district on Sunday. The search was on for the missing five even as 32 people were rescued. ...
09:30 PM, Mar 17, 2013
Drunken driving is responsible for 70 per cent of road fatalities in India. ...
12:39 PM, Feb 18, 2013
Five pilgrims returning from the Kumbh Mela were killed and eight others injured when a jeep collided with a truck in Jalalpur area, police said on Saturday. The five persons, including three women and two men, were killed when the jeep carrying them collided with the truck on the Lucknow-Varanasi National Highway late Friday night, Superintendent of Police Manjil Saini said. ...
10:16 AM, Feb 16, 2013
Boeing invested an estimated $25 billion in developing the 787-introducing radical changes in materials and a component-sourcing strategy that was to bring efficiencies for the aircraft-maker and airlines. The grounding of the aircraft raises doubts about these decisions. ...
08:56 AM, Feb 16, 2013
Boeing Co completed what it called an uneventful flight on Saturday of a test 787 Dreamliner, its first since the airplanes were grounded more than three weeks ago after a series of battery-related problems. ...
10:30 AM, Feb 10, 2013
US and Japanese aviation safety officials finished an initial investigation of a badly damaged battery from a Boeing Co 787 Dreamliner jet on Friday as Boeing said it was halting deliveries until the battery concerns were resolved. Boeing said it would continue building the carbon-composite 787, but deliveries were on hold until the US Federal Aviation Administration approved and implemented a plan to ensure the safety of potentially flammable lithium-ion...
06:35 PM, Jan 19, 2013
Europe's air safety authority has followed the United States in ordering the grounding and safety review of Boeing's 787 Dreamliner following a series of incidents with the aircraft in recent days. ...
06:58 PM, Jan 17, 2013
Boeing Co's 787 planes were grounded for safety checks Wednesday by two major Japanese airlines after one was forced to make an emergency landing in the latest blow for the new jet. All Nippon Airways said a cockpit message showed battery problems and a burning smell were detected in the cockpit and the cabin, forcing the 787 on a domestic flight to land at Takamatsu airport in western Japan. ...
11:41 AM, Jan 16, 2013
Boeing Co's 787 Dreamliner jet suffered a cracked cockpit window and an oil leak on separate flights in Japan on January 11, the latest in a series of incidents to test confidence in the sophisticated new aircraft. All Nippon Airways Co said a domestic flight from Tokyo landed safely at Matsuyama airport in western Japan after a crack developed on the cockpit windscreen, and the plane's return to Tokyo was...
03:22 PM, Jan 11, 2013
Boeing Co's new 787 Dreamliner suffered its second mishap in two days at the same airport with the same airline, extending a series of problems that have dogged the jet for more than a month and notched up concern about the plane. A fuel leak on January 8 forced a 787 operated by Japan Airlines to cancel takeoff at Boston's Logan International Airport. On January 7, an electrical fire erupted...
12:37 PM, Jan 09, 2013
One person was killed and six others were left injured after a slab of a building in Kamala Mills compound in Mumbai's Lower Parel collapsed. ...
02:29 PM, Dec 03, 2012
Palampur: The toll in the bus accident near Malli on the Palampur-Ashapuri road near Palampur rose to 34 on Tuesday with authorities recovering 20 more bodies, police said. Five others, including two women and a child, were seriously injured in the mishap which took place when a Himachal Road Transport Corporation (HRTC) bus rolled 1000 ft down into a deep gorge on Monday evening. Till late Monday night 14 bodies...
01:29 PM, Sep 11, 2012
Kolkata: At least 15 persons including many school students were injured, six seriously, in a mishap in a reputed amusement park at Salt Lake in Kolkata on Tuesday. The incident happened when a water chute at Nicco Park collapsed on Tuesday. Police said the water chute, one of the most popular rides of the park collapsed due to overcrowding. There were more visitors to the park in view of the...
06:20 PM, Aug 21, 2012
Chennai: Human failure was the cause for the accident at Metro Rail construction site near Pachaiyappas College, here, that resulted in the death of a migrant labourer and injuries to six others, according to an initial enquiry report. Chennai Metro Rail Limited (CMRL) General Manager (construction) V Somasundaram told Express on Monday that the initial finding was that the operator mishandled the crane, which resulted in the crane boom, that...
01:33 PM, Aug 14, 2012
Chennai: Police have arrested two persons in connection with a crane accident that killed a Chennai Metro Rail Limited (CMRL) worker at a construction site near Pachaiyappas College here on Wednesday night. Kanagaraj (32), site manager of Larsen & Toubro (L&T), and Rajesh (34), deputy project manager of Valecha Engineering, were arrested by TP Chathiram Inspector M Royappan on Wednesday night. The police said Valecha had obtained sub-contract from L&T...
01:18 PM, Aug 10, 2012
Chennai: A 24-year-old Kollywood actor was arrested after he lost control over his car and hit a two-wheeler and two autos, injuring four persons, on Poonamallee High Road on Sunday morning. Police said the accident occurred as the actor fell asleep while driving. Police said Sriranjan, a new face in Tamil cinema who essayed the lead role in the film Theni Mavattum, was arrested for causing grievous injuries to four...
01:29 PM, Aug 06, 2012
