Mumbai: Hoping to improve its financials, cash-strapped Kingfisher Airlines (KFA) has slashed wide-bodied aircraft operations on international sectors that are making heavy losses, an official said on Wednesday. The beleaguered carrier has already returned one leased Airbus A330-320 to its lessor in Britain, the official said on Wednesday morning. The airline indicated more such developments by assuring that "positive and immediate action is being taken on all fronts to cut...
11:05 AM, Mar 14, 2012
Gurgaon: The CRPF, a key force in anti-Maoist operations, will have to acquire an intelligence-based strategy to combat Maoists who have organised themselves as a "regular fighting army", Home Minister P Chidambaram said on Wednesday. Chidambaram said this while inaugurating the first-ever intelligence training school for Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) officers and personnel at its academy at Kadarpur in Gurgaon, adjacent to Delhi. "Counter-insurgency and countering Left-wing extremists(LWE) require...
03:42 AM, Feb 09, 2012
Islamabad: The death of a senior al-Qaeda leader in a US drone strike in Pakistan's tribal badlands, the first strike in almost two months, signaled that the US-Pakistan intelligence partnership is still in operation despite political tensions. The January 10 strike and its follow-up two days later were joint operations, a Pakistani security source based in the tribal areas said. They made use of Pakistani "spotters" on the ground and...
10:22 AM, Jan 23, 2012
Cuddalore: Cyclone Thane came and went, and claimed 42 lives alongwith. Rescue operations are on in Puducherry and other areas that bore the brunt of the storm. However, Cuddalore, the worst-hit of all, still remains without milk and electricity, two days after the storm. CNN-IBN visited Thottampattu, a village of 400 families, almost 6 km away from the coast in interior Cuddalore. Over 50 homes in the village have been...
08:01 AM, Jan 01, 2012
New Delhi: Flight operations were largely unaffected at the Indira Gandhi International airport here which witnessed shallow fog this morning. Though some flights were delayed, it was due to poor weather conditions at the destinations. Most of the flights departing from here were largely on schedule, an airport official said. Flights mostly to cities like Lucknow, Port Blair, Kolkata, Patna, Chandigarh were delayed due to poor weather conditions there. Though...
12:35 PM, Dec 20, 2011
New Delhi: Air India, in an official statement on Tuesday, said, it would like to assure its passengers that its flight operations are normal and would continue to be normal. "Today, all flights till now (out of nearly 410 scheduled for the day) were operated as per schedule," said the statement. Appealing to all passengers to continue their support to the carrier, Air India said, "All efforts are put in...
08:16 PM, Nov 01, 2011
Ercis: Rain and snow on Thursday compounded difficulties for thousands rendered homeless in the powerful earthquake that hit eastern Turkey, and the government said the death toll has gone up to 534. The prime minister's center for crisis and emergency management said 2,300 people were injured and 185 were rescued from the rubble. Meanwhile, a moderate earthquake, measuring 5.4 according to Turkey's Kandilli seismology center, hit the neighboring province of...
05:31 PM, Oct 27, 2011
New Delhi: Over 10,000 food packets were airdropped in the quake-hit areas of north Sikkim as two major roads connecting the region remained blocked due to landslides after Sunday's powerful temblor. Home Ministry officials on Friday said 10,000 food packets have been air-dropped so far in the northern part of North District while another 5000 food packets are ready for being sent to Chungthan, Lachung and Lachen. "15 helicopters of...
06:06 PM, Sep 23, 2011
New Delhi: Just days after a massive earthquake hit Sikkim, the northeastern state was on Thursday hit by flash floods. The flash floods hit Lachung, located in north Sikkim district near China border, damaging at least two houses, including one Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) camp. As many as 100 people have been stranded due to the flash floods that occurred on Thursday. Meanwhile, rescue operations are on in the quake-hit...
01:21 PM, Sep 22, 2011
Gangtok: Three days since the earthquake struck Sikkim, the devastation still unfolding. With 20 more bodies have been recovered on Wednesday, the total death toll climbed to 112, mostly in Sikkim. Several hundreds are still believed to be stranded in the worst affected north districts of Sikkim. Sikkim has suffered a loss of about Rs 1 lakh crore due to the 6.8 magnitude earthquake, said Chief Minister Pawan Kumar Chamling....
09:21 PM, Sep 21, 2011
Gangtok: The road to north Sikkim beyond Mangan, the epicentre of the Sunday's earthquake, remains blocked even as the relief and rescue workers have raced against time to open the arterial National Highway 31A that cut off the state since Sunday evening. By Tuesday evening rescue workers were able to clear the blockades caused by landslides both from Bagdogra to Gangtok and Gantok to Mangan. In the process two army...
08:59 PM, Sep 20, 2011
Rongpo: Fear is what greets you when you enter Sikkim. People huddled together, children sleeping under the open sky, families cramped inside cars. Sita Pradhan, 26, is still shaken, with an ailing 65-year old mother, she is on the streets with her seven-month-old baby, unable to sleep. Pradhan said, "We are scared and we will spend the night out here." Eight-year-old Minal did not go to school today. She heard...
07:01 AM, Sep 20, 2011
New Delhi: The Army finally reached the epicentre of Sunday's killer earthquake in the town of Mangan in Sikkim on Tuesday morning even as the death toll climbed to 82. Army units managed to reach Mangan after the road was cleared on Tuesday morning. However, North Sikkim was cut off again due to a heavy landslide on the road linking Mangan barely hours after it was cleared. Official sources said...
06:55 AM, Sep 20, 2011
New Delhi/Gangtok: The death toll of the 6.8 magnitude earthquake that hit Sikkim on Sunday evening has reached 62. Sikkim is the worst hit with 38 casualties, 10 deaths have been confirmed in Bihar and West Bengal and 14 in Nepal and Tibet. Out of the 38 deaths in Sikkim, most of the casualties have been reported from the northern districts. The toll could rise further as west Sikkim is...
11:28 PM, Sep 19, 2011
Gangtok: Twenty-two people, travelling in a bus, went missing since Sunday evening in North Sikkim where the epicentre of the 6.8 magnitude earthquake lay. They were believed to be travelling in a GREF bus which is still to be traced by the rescue teams. A spokesman of the 17 Mountain Division said the army was still not able to find the missing bus which could be anywhere between a radius...
08:56 PM, Sep 19, 2011
New Delhi: 16 people lost their lives as a 6.8 magnitude earthquake hit sikkim on Sunday evening. Rain and landslides in the region are hampering the search and rescue operations and authorities fear the toll could rise further. The armed forces have deployed teams for relief and rescue activity, the Centre is also sending emergency teams in. But heavy rains, intermittent power cut, and loss of mobile phone connectivity did...
07:29 AM, Sep 19, 2011
Islamabad: The United Nations appealed for $357 million Sunday to help millions of Pakistanis affected by floods that have damaged hundreds of thousands of homes and destroyed millions of acres of crops. Pakistan often experiences flooding from monsoon rains that lash much of South Asia from June to September. This year the rains have been heavier than normal, coming as many people were still trying to recover from last year's...
02:05 AM, Sep 19, 2011
New Delhi: Several Army units and at least five Indian Air Force aircraft have been deployed for rescue and relief operations in the earthquake-hit areas of Sikkim. Thirty columns (nearly 3,000 Army personnel) from the 33 Crops based in Siliguri are involved in rescue operations in Sikkim. Ten units of Army Engineers with road opening equipments have been sent from Siliguri and Binaguri to open the Siliguri-Gangtok road which has...
11:51 PM, Sep 18, 2011
New Delhi: Five IAF aircraft have been pressed into service for relief operations in quake-hit Sikkim where at least two persons died in the tremors. Two persons were killed and 33 received minor injuries in Sikkim as an earthquake measuring 6.8 on the Richter Scale with its epicentre on Sikkim-Nepal border shook northeast and the northern parts of the country on Sunday evening. Of the five aircraft being pressed into...
09:45 PM, Sep 18, 2011
Bhubaneswar: Flood's fury in Mahanadi and other rivers has wreaked havoc in Orissa submerging about 2,600 villages spread over 19 districts and leaving eight dead as the state government on Sunday stepped up relief and rescue operations for 11 lakh affected people. The floods, which claimed eight lives and left three others missing so far, have snapped road communications at several places in Puri, Kendrapara, Cuttack, Jagatsinghpur, Sambalpur, Boudh and...
02:11 PM, Sep 11, 2011
