Mumbai: For the last two months, an 80-year-old woman has been waiting for a reply to one seemingly simple question: why did an attendant -- who had been appointed for the express purpose of wheeling her out of the airport and into the arrivals section -- abandon her in her wheelchair for over two hours in the middle of a sprawling Mumbai airport, with no explanation? "The wheelchair arrived half...
03:21 PM, Mar 01, 2012
New Delhi: The Supreme Court will continue to hear Ajmal Kasab's plea against his death sentence in the 26/11 Mumbai attacks case. The apex court had last week heard recorded tapes of conversations shared between Kasab and his handlers in Pakistan during the 2008 attacks. Kasab had pleaded with the Supreme Court to commute his death sentence to life imprisonment. Senior advocate Raju Ramachandran, who has been appointed as amicus...
08:52 AM, Feb 28, 2012
Mumbai: For the first time in recent years, both runways of the Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport in Mumbai will be shut for construction work for 5 hours on Saturday. Operations will be closed between 11:30 am to 4:30 pm. Flights or passengers are not likely to be affected, as airlines had been informed of this three months in advance. However, passengers who have to rush to other cities urgently during...
08:47 AM, Feb 25, 2012
New Delhi: Delhi and Mumbai airports are earning the least 'aeronautical' revenue per passenger compared to other airports of the world, according to a survey. As per the list of 50 countries prepared by Leigh Fisher Management consultants, Delhi airport is at the bottom of the list with meagre 1.97 SDRs compared to Japan's Narita airport with 17.86 SDRs. Mumbai stands at the second last place with 2.09 SDRs. The...
10:46 AM, Feb 24, 2012
14 flights from Mumbai, 4 out of Delhi and 10 from Bangalore have been cancelled on Thursday. ...
01:15 PM, Feb 22, 2012
New Delhi: The intercepted conversation between the executors of 26/11 Mumbai terror attack and their Pakistani handlers during the carnage will be played in the Supreme Court on after the prosecution said it was an important evidence showing the strikes were "pre-planned". Hearing an appeal of Mohd Ajmal Amir Kasab, the sole convict of the carnage, against his death sentence, the court Wednesday said it would hear the intercepts on...
10:54 AM, Feb 22, 2012
New Delhi: It has been close to three months after the National Investigative Agency filed its chargesheet against Lashkar-e-Toiba agent David Coleman Headley; an NIA court is likely to pronounce its order on the chargesheet on Saturday. The NIA has charged Headley and 9 others including Tawahur Hussain Rana, Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi and Hafiz Saeed with criminal conspiracy of the 26/11 Mumbai attacks. If the chargesheet is accepted then it...
06:43 AM, Feb 18, 2012
Mumbai: Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport (CSIA), Mumbai, has been adjudged among the top three performing airports of last year in the airport service quality survey, by the Airport Council International (ACI), an official said here on Thursday. While the Indira Gandhi International Airport at New Delhi has been ranked the first in India and the second best globally, Mumbai's CSIA ranks the third best airport globally, and has emerged the...
01:06 PM, Feb 16, 2012
New Delhi: The Maharashtra government on Wednesday opposed 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks accused Ajmal Kasab's plea for leniency in the Supreme Court. Placing arguments in the court, the Maharashtra government said, "Kasab's rights have not been violated." The Maharashtra government also said that death was a permissible means of punishment. It also claimed that his latest request was a conspiracy. "Kasab has been dealt with as fairly as possible. He...
12:52 PM, Feb 15, 2012
Mumbai: An Air Traffic Control staff at the Mumbai airport averted a tragedy on Wednesday evening by aborting the takeoff of Jet Airways' Goa-bound flight carrying 158 passengers when another plane was about to touch down. The ATC asked the Jet pilot to abort the takeoff as an IndiGo flight was about to land, airport sources said. "As instructed by the air traffic controllers, Jet flight from Mumbai to Goa...
09:22 PM, Feb 08, 2012
Chicago: The US government has asked a court in Chicago to deny Pakistan-born Canadian Tahawwur Rana's plea for a new trial in cases related to the Mumbai and Denmark terror plots, arguing that the court was right in convicting him for aiding Lashkar-e-Taiba. In June 2011, after a three-week trial, 50-year-old Rana was convicted of providing material support to the banned LeT, and of conspiracy to provide material support to...
04:45 PM, Jan 31, 2012
New Delhi: The sole convict in the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack case, Mohammad Ajmal Amir Kasab, on Tuesday contended before the Supreme Court that he was not given a free and fair trial in the case. Senior advocate Raju Ramachandran, who has been appointed as amicus curiae by the apex court, told a bench headed by Justice Aftab Alam that he was not a part of the larger conspiracy for...
02:13 PM, Jan 31, 2012
Chicago: The US government has asked a court to deny Pakistan-born Canadian Tahawwur Rana's plea for a new trial in cases related to the Mumbai and Denmark terror plots, arguing that he has failed to demonstrate that the court erred in convicting him for aiding Lashkar-e-Taiba. In June last year, after a three-week trial, 50-year-old Rana was convicted of providing material support to the banned LeT, and of conspiracy to...
02:49 AM, Jan 31, 2012
Mumbai: A Pakistani judicial commission will arrive in Mumbai on February 3 to record the statements of key persons involved in Mumbai attack probe. Official sources said that officers of the crime branch have been asked to provide assistance to the Pakistani commission during their visit here for which the Bombay High Court had recently given a go-ahead. The commission will be recording the statement of Ramesh Mahale, the 26/11...
06:31 PM, Jan 29, 2012
Mumbai: There seems to be some headway in the 13/7 Mumbai blasts probe. Sources have said that the hideout of three of the perpetrators has been found. The key blast planners operated from a third-floor flat in Byculla. Sources say the trio, including key conspirator Shahrukh Shahbandari alias Yasin Bhatkal, had rented the apartment for six months. The Maharashtra ATS wing questioned the landlord, even as the trio is believed...
10:14 AM, Jan 16, 2012
Lahore: Khwaja Sultan Ahmed, the lawyer of Lashkar-e-Taiba commander Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi, died in Lahore on Saturday following a brief illness at the age of 82. Ahmed's son-in-law Muhammad Hasan told PTI that the noted lawyer had been admitted in Lahore's Ittefaq Hospital on December 29 after he was diagnosed with meningitis. "He recovered but a few days ago, he contracted pneumonia which proved fatal," Hasan said. He was a...
03:46 PM, Jan 14, 2012
New Delhi: The NIA on Saturday told a Delhi court that it did not recognise the plea bargain reached between David Coleman Headley and the US administration and that India should start the process to extradite the American Lashkar operative as soon as possible. "We don't recognise David Headley's plea bargain with the US... India should start the process to extradite the American Laskhkar operative." Last month, the NIA had...
12:00 PM, Jan 07, 2012
Mumbai: In the latest incident of duty evasions by the actors, the custom officials fined actor Dia Mirza a sum of Rs 1.25 lakh at the Mumbai International Airport on Saturday. The penalty was imposed on the actor for carrying undeclared goods while returning returning from Bangkok. She was let off after paying the fine. Mirza was carrying undeclared items worth Rs 2 lakh upon her arrival at Mumbai airport,...
10:30 AM, Jan 07, 2012
New Delhi: A Delhi court is likely to pronounce its order on the National Investigation Agency's (NIA) chargesheet against American Lashkar operative David Coleman Headley. Last month, the agency had charged him and eight others including JuD chief Hafiz Mohd Saeed and Zaki-ur Rehman Lakhvi. They were chargesheeted for hatching the 26/11 conspiracy. Headley entered into plea bargain with the United States without taking India into confidence. Headley did a...
08:58 AM, Jan 07, 2012
Mumbai: There was high drama at Mumbai airport on Sunday evening as an Air India flight to Dubai got delayed by five hours. The passengers complained that they were not informed about the reasons for delay. AI flight 957 was supposed to take off at 8 pm. Not having been informed about the cause for delay, the agitated passengers created a ruckus inside the plane. ...
09:57 AM, Jan 02, 2012
