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4 VSR planes grounded after safety inspection

New Delhi, Feb. 25 -- The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) on Tuesday ordered the grounding of four aircraft operated by VSR Ventures Pvt Ltd following a special safety audit that was init... Read More


Regulator pulls up charter flight operators, issues safety warning

New Delhi, Feb. 25 -- India's aviation regulator issued a sweeping safety warning to charter flight operators on Tuesday after a decade of accident data exposed systemic failures across the sector: pi... Read More


Patient's kin borrowed Rs.8 lakh for air ambulance that crashed

Ranchi, Feb. 25 -- When he opened his small hotel in Jharkhand's Satbarwa hamlet in Latehar district after years of painstaking effort, Sanjay Kumar Sahu, 41, must have felt that his luck was about to... Read More


Three arrested for running sex, drugs racket in Bhopal

Bhopal, Feb. 25 -- At least six people were booked and three were arrested for allegedly running a sex and drug racket in Madhya Pradesh's Bhopal, following complaints filed by two women, police said ... Read More


SC stays Kerala HC order quashing citizen response programme

New Delhi, Feb. 25 -- The Supreme Court on Tuesday cleared the decks for the Kerala government to proceed with its "Nava Kerala Citizen Response Programme"- an initiative aimed at collecting feedback ... Read More


SC calls for speedy trials in bank loan fraud cases

New Delhi, Feb. 25 -- The Supreme Court on Tuesday called for expeditious adjudication of matters relating to banks' decisions to classify loan accounts as "fraudulent", underlining that prolonged pen... Read More


TN parties likely to conclude seat-sharing pacts this week

Chennai, Feb. 25 -- Tamil Nadu's two major political alliances - the the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) and the Congress, and the All India Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK)-Bharatiya Janata Party (... Read More


16-yr-old murdered by group of minors in K'taka, 7 detained

BENGALURU, Feb. 25 -- Security was heightened in Karnataka's Urugadur area near Shivamogga on Tuesday after a 16-year-old student died following an assault by a group of minors outside a government sc... Read More


Indo-Myanmar border fencing hit by militants

New Delhi, Feb. 25 -- Militants have disrupted fence construction along the Indo-Myanmar border through improvised explosive devices (IEDs) planted at sites, cut fences and stolen equipment over the p... Read More


ludhiana varsity vc resigns after row over ramzan meal demand

Ludhiana/Srinagar, Feb. 25 -- The vice chancellor (VC) of a Ludhiana-based private university resigned on Tuesday after Kashmiri students accused him of hurling abuses during an argument over meal arr... Read More