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Wednesday, July 1, 2009

Jet with 153 crashes off Comoros, boy survives

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An Airbus A310-300 from Yemen with 153 people on board crashed into the sea off the Indian Ocean archipelago of Comoros on Tuesday, but a child was pulled from the sea alive.

A Yemeni aviation official said a young boy, who was plucked alive from the Indian Ocean after the passenger jet crashed, was brought ashore.

Mohammed Abdul Qader, the Yemeni civil aviation deputy chief, said the boy is five years old and has been hospitalised in the Comoros.

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Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Great railway ripoff

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" Never mind the rats," the ticket collector said, reclining on his seat as passengers settled in for the night. "We have no choice but to get accustomed to having them as our fellow passengers."

As the Mumbai-bound Golden Temple Mail left New Delhi and made quick progress through Rajasthan's dry terrain, a foul stench from the bathrooms wafted through the train car, mingling with the smell of leftover food on dinner trays piled up near the bathrooms.

At a time when the Indian Railways' profits have peaked, an HT reporter made a 38-hour, 2,800-km train journey on one of the country's busiest routes to investigate if services had improved on the world's second largest train network.

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Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Air India pilot averts collision with chopper on presidential duty

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A helicopter that was part of a fleet carrying President Pratibha Patil just missed colliding with an Air India plane with 150 people on board on Monday morning, airport and government officials said.

Just before the Air India pilot was about to take off for Delhi from the Mumbai runway he saw the chopper about , 200 metres in front of the plane.

The Mumbai airport’s air traffic control also asked the Air India pilot to apply the emergency brakes.

When the pilot slammed the brakes, a tyre burst. But all the passengers and crew on board the helicopter and plane emerged unscathed from the incident. The President flew back to Delhi in the evening, officials said.

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Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Trains, flights delayed as north India vanishes under fog blanket

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Thick fog threw life out of gear in Delhi on Monday morning. Road, rail and air traffic were all affected — flights were cancelled, trains delayed and those on the roads were not safe. Three people died on the roads of the Capital in the early hours, while two were killed in Greater Noida.

Countless passengers were stuck at the airport and railway stations due to delays.

Things did not look good for Tuesday morning either, with the Met office predicting bad weather for the next few days.

“This was the worst fog of the season in Delhi and adjoining areas,” said B.P. Yadav, spokesman for the India Meteorological Department (IMD). “Heavy snowfall in the hilly states coupled with rainfall in the neighbouring states injected moisture in the air that lashed Delhi and caused the fog. This condition will prevail for a couple of days.”

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Monday, August 18, 2008

Travellers shift to trains as airfares soar

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With low cost carriers becoming increasingly expensive, frequent fliers, particularly between Delhi and Mumbai, have switched to train travel.

In July, there was a 47 per cent jump in earnings from reserved tickets in trains originating across North India.

"In May and June, the number of passengers who went from Delhi to Mumbai was 33.7 per cent more than usual," said a senior railway official on condition of anonymity "We had to augment capacity in every train to carry that additional load."

Fourteen extra coaches have been attached to 12 Rajdhanis. Twelve Shatabdis have got 19 extra coaches, while around 50 mail/express trains have got 80 additional compartments.

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