I recently flew on one of our aircraft and I was pleasantly surprised. Our aeroplanes are brand new and a pleasure to travel on. They can give any airline a run for their money," says Raghu Menon.
The politics of Deve Gowda and that of the bureaucrats who badmouthed and helped kill a remarkable public-private initiative like the Bangalore Agenda Task Force have been the city's nemesis.
The third VH-71 helicopter built for the Presidential Helicopter Program, Test Vehicle 3 (TV-3), has arrived in the U.S. and will be the first VH-71 to receive final assembly and mission systems integration.The US Navy-owned Test Vehicle was transported aboard
For only the sixth time in its 59-year history, NATO is poised to expand its membership this week. At the alliance's three-day summit conference that begins tomorrow in Bucharest, Romania, officials are expected to extend an invitation to Albania, Croatia
UK military commanders on the ground are set to benefit from a new system that will increase their ability to counter attacks from air threats and reduce 'friendly-fire' incidents.The Land Environment Air Picture Provision (LEAPP) programme - a £100m contract
US state department has Designated HARAKAT UL-JIHAD-I-ISLAMI/BANGLADESH (HUJI-B) aka Islami Dawat-e-Kafela (IDEK), aka Harakat ul Jihad e Islami Bangladesh, aka Harkatul Jihad al Islam, aka Harkatul Jihad, aka Harakat ul Jihad al Islami, aka Harkat ul Jihad al Islami, aka
EADS Defence & Security (DS) together with its local partner Integrated Energy Systems & Resources Inc (IESRI), Manila/Philippines, has been awarded a contract to deliver advanced secondary radar systems for air traffic control purposes to the Philippine Air Transportation Office
Recently, Public Works and Government Services Canada signed a €42 million contract with Thales Canada, Naval Services Division for Repair and Overhaul services for all the Thales radar systems currently in-service in the Canadian Navy's IROQUOIS Class destroyers and HALIFAX
Alenia Aermacchi, a Finmeccanica company and leader in the military trainer aircraft market, andENAER, Empresa Nacional de Aeronáutica de Chile, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding(MoU) that sets out the terms of the partnership for programmes relating to the M-346
Wilco Publishing has brought Tower Simulator that puts you in the controller's chair high atop a major or complex airport to choreograph the movements of incoming and outgoing air traffic. Tower Simulator takes you into a world of authority and
QinetiQ has today brought into service two important elements of the Combined Aerial Target Service (CATS) for the UK's armed forces, having completed a series of complex verification and evaluation trials on-time and within all the operational constraints. This contract,
Bombardier Transportation and AnsaldoBreda, Finmeccanica's subsidiary for the railway sector, announced yesterday their signature of an agreement to jointly develop, bid and manufacture a new high speed train capable of travelling at more than 300 km/h and which eliminates the
Geneticists from the Madurai Kamaraj University claim they have found the answers in a small village called Jyothimanickam on the fringes of the Western Ghats, some 50 km from Madurai. Thirteen people in this hamlet carry the gene 'M130' in
Bhutia, a Buddhist, turned down the offer saying the cause for a free Tibet was close to his heart. But actor Saif Ali Khan said: "I will definitely be taking part in the relay. Why shouldn't I? My government has
An analysis of the 2000 United States Census has found a son-biased sex ratio among US-born children of Indian parents, with the odds of a boy increasing if the previous offspring is a girl. If the first is a girl,
Panaji Police have registered a case after they received the communication from Delhi Police, with whom the woman has filed the complaint. Police stated that the incident occurred on March 7 in a five star hotel where she was dragged
Supreme Court judge Markandeya Katju called it a "stinking drain" on Tuesday. "I went there to perform the last rites of my mother and the smell at the ghat was unbearable." This observation came at a hearing by a bench
Instead, they are sweating it out in north India's notorious April heat in their tiny hostel rooms, fingers still tinged with colours of Holi, deciphering the Devanagari script and Munshi Premchand. They want to master the official language of a
