New Delhi: With no end in sight to the Air India pilots' strike, the national carrier has firmed up plans to hire new cockpit crew to run its long-haul international operations which have been hit by the 29-day long agitation. Hiring of new batches of pilots is part of a new business plan for international operations, which the ailing carrier is likely to announce on Wednesday. It would be implemented...
03:58 AM, Jun 06, 2012
New Delhi: Against the backdrop of increasing role of satellites in modern warfare, the Navy has created a new post of Assistant Chief of Naval Staff (Communications, Space and Network Centric Operations) at its headquarters in New Delhi. "On June 1, Rear Admiral Kishan K Pandey took over as the first incumbent of the newly created post of ACNS (CSNCO) at the Integrated Headquarters of Ministry of Defence (Navy)," it...
02:50 AM, Jun 04, 2012
New Delhi: Seeking to allay apprehensions that the NCTC would infringe on the states' rights, Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda on Saturday said the Standard Operating Procedure of the proposed anti-terror body will ensure that they are kept informed of all its operations. "The Government of India has come up with a detailed Standard Operating Procedure which ensures that the state governments concerned would be kept meaningfully informed of...
03:59 AM, May 06, 2012
Dhubri: More than 100 people have been found dead and the death toll from the boat accident in the Brahmaputra River in Assam's Dhubri continues to rise. As rescue teams searched for survivors, the families of those who died and those who were missing were inconsolable. A day after the ferry capsized, very few bodies have been recovered. There is no clarity on the number of people dead. While there...
09:08 PM, May 01, 2012
Raipur/New Delhi: With the Maoists' April 25 deadline looming large, Chhattisgarh government suspended the anti-Naxal operations in Bastar region and Monday night offered to hold talks in a bid to end the hostage crisis involving Sukma district collector Alex Paul Menon. After an all-party meeting in Raipur to discuss the three-day-old crisis, Chief Minister Raman Singh said the political parties have made an appeal to the Naxals to release the...
12:33 AM, Apr 24, 2012
Tokyo: Sony Corp CEO Kazuo Hirai signaled his determination to turn around the group's ailing TV business by keeping direct charge of the division, as the Japanese brand fights to regain ground against rivals such as Apple. Hirai, who formally takes over as chief executive from Howard Stringer next week, inherits a company that - like much of corporate Japan - has been outgunned in recent years by rivals like...
04:24 PM, Mar 27, 2012
Mumbai: Air India on Sunday ruled out any disruption of its operations due to a strike warning from various unions from April 2, saying there is no threat of any strike from any of the registered unions of its employees. In what would have come as a breather to the debt-laden national carrier, the Air Corporation Employees Union (ACEU) on Sunday came out with a statement ruling out any strike....
03:34 AM, Mar 26, 2012
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
The earthquake that shook Sikkim and adjoining states on Sunday has claimed 112 lives so far. ...
08:58 AM, Sep 22, 2011
Nine villages in Sikkim are still cut off and it's a tough task for the Border Roads Organisation as huge boulders have made the roads impassable. ...
08:19 AM, Sep 22, 2011
The Sunday's earthquake in Sikkim has left widespread destruction behind. ...
11:03 PM, Sep 21, 2011
