Kathmandu, Nov 15 (IANS) A Russian was killed and five people injured when a helicopter crashed in a mountainous district in northern Nepal Sunday. The Russian flight engineer was identified as D. Satalo, ...

By Syed Zarir Hussain Tawang (Arunachal Pradesh), Nov 8 (IANS) The Dalai Lama arrived in India's northeastern state of Arunachal Pradesh Sunday to a rousing reception by hundreds of monks and the ...

Jammu, Nov 8 (IANS) Karnataka Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa, who is battling a political crisis, visited the revered cave shrine of Vaishno Devi in Jammu and Kashmir and offered prayers. Yeddyurappa was ...

By Syed Zarir Hussain Tawang (Arunachal Pradesh), Nov 8 (IANS) Thousands of locals in traditional costumes and monks attired in their maroon robes lined up streets early Sunday to greet the Dalai ...

Gangtok, Oct 28 (IANS) Vice President Hamid Ansari arrived here Wednesday on a hectic three-day visit to Sikkim during which he will lay the foundation stone of a rail link between Rangpo ...

By Dipankar De Sarkar London, Oct 22 (IANS) Security at the television studios of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) was ramped up Thursday as anti-fascist campaigners protested a current affairs show featuring ...

By Sahil Makkar New Delhi, Oct 21 (IANS) Come December, over 100 elite commandos of the country's best crack force, the National Security Guard (NSG), will be deployed for round the clock anti-terrorist ...

Shimla, Oct 20 (IANS) Congress president Sonia Gandhi and her daughter Priyanka Vadra reached the Himachal Pradesh capital Tuesday to oversee the construction of Priyanka's cottage near here, an official said. Gandhi ...

Lahore, Oct. 20 (ANI): The man convicted for attacking a Police Training Academy in Manawan in March has been sentenced to only ten years in jail - far less than the ...

New Delhi, Oct 16 (IANS) Commandos of the elite National Security Guards (NSG) will soon be operating from near the Indira Gandhi International (IGI) airport for faster response to emergency situations like ...

Nagpur, Oct 9 (IANS) More than 200 farmers' widows staged a silent protest near the venue of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's first election rally in Yavatmal in eastern Maharashtra Friday. The widows, ...

New Delhi, Sep 30 (IANS) Five teenagers, who got stuck midstream in a river in Mehboobnagar in Andhra Pradesh Wednesday, had a dramatic rescue after an Indian Air Force (IAF) helicopter was ...

Chennai, Sep 11 (IANS) Power equipment major Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd (BHEL) has won a Rs.1,300-crore order from NTPC Tamil Nadu Energy Co Ltd (NTECL) for supplying boilers, turbines and generators. NTECL, which ...

Hyderabad, Sep 5 (IANS) Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy, who died in a helicopter crash Wednesday, had a narrow escape last year when the helicopter carrying him made an emergency landing on a road. The ...

Lucknow, Sep 4 (IANS) Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati Friday named a full-fledged university after the mother of her blue-eyed party general secretary Satish Chandra Misra, who has shot to fame ...

Ferozepur (Punjab), Aug 30 (IANS) A helicopter carrying Punjab Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal had to make an emergency landing in an open field in this Punjab district Sunday following a ...

New York, Aug 9 (DPA) A sightseeing helicopter with five Italian tourists on board collided with a light aircraft over New York's Hudson River Saturday, sending wreckage from both plunging into the ...

Srinagar, July 9 (ANI): A private helicopter carrying pilgrims to the Amarnath shrine crashed near the cave shrine this morning, killing one woman and injuring four others. The private helicopter was being ...

Srinagar, July 9 (IANS) A helicopter crashed near the Amarnath cave shrine Thursday morning killing one woman pilgrim on the spot and wounding five occupants, police said. The helicopter took off from north ...

Kolkata, June 24 (ANI): The West Bengal Government on Wednesday claimed the situation in Maoist-infested Lalgarh was returning to normal, as the operations by security forces entered 5th day on Wednesday. The operation ...

By Vishal Gulati Shimla, June 21 (IANS) A cottage tucked away in the hills, amid cherry and apple trees, with deodars lining the road. That's the dream house of Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, Congress ...

Shimla, June 15 (IANS) Almost a month after the Congress returned to power with increased strength in the Lok Sabha polls this year, party president Sonia Gandhi is in a holiday ...

New Delhi, May 14 (ANI): Facilitating the unenviable task of conducting the electoral process, the Indian Air Force (IAF) pressed into service two IL-76, four AN-32 transport aircraft, 25 medium-lift helicopters and ...

New Delhi, May 14 (IANS) Squadron Leader R. Dhobhal, the pilot of a Mi-17 helicopter, was supervising the loading of electronic voting machines (EVMs) and poll officials into his chopper when he ...

By Minu Jain New Delhi, May 14 (IANS) They trudged through sand dunes in the searing heat, climbed icy peaks and crossed treacherous waters to reach that one goal - a polling station. ...

Mumbai, April 24 (IANS) Four people have been detained in connection with Thursday's suspected sabotage of industrialist Anil Ambani's chopper that he was supposed to have flown from the Mahalaxmi Race Course ...

Purulia (West Bengal), April 24 (IANS) Launching a blistering attack on the Left Front government, Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi Friday accused it of failing to provide basic facilities like health ...

New Delhi, Apr.16 (ANI): Following are some interesting poll-related facts Lakshdweep -105 Polling booth accessible by boats only -EVMs were carried to Minicoy Island by helicopter Andaman Nicobar Island -The Andaman Nicober group ...

New Delhi, April 15 (IANS) Some had already embarked on a 35-hour journey through the seas to reach their polling booth and others were Wednesday readying for a long snowbound trek to ...

New Delhi, April 15 (IANS) Railways Minister Lalu Prasad, who was arrested and released Tuesday for unsafe helicopter landing in a school premises, told the poll panel that his pilot did not ...