Five coast guards killed in plane collision at Japan's airport

In a devastating incident at Tokyo's Haneda Airport on Tuesday, a Japan Airlines aircraft collided with a Japan Coast Guard plane, resulting in a fiery crash that claimed the lives of five coast......

Japan PM's Ukraine visit overshadows Xi-Putin talks, upsets China

China on Tuesday hit out at Japan after its Prime Minister Fumio Kishida made a surprise visit to Ukraine and overshadowed Chinese President Xi Jinping's meeting with his Russian counterpart......

PM Modi accorded warm welcome on his arrival in Japan

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said his meeting with Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe will add new vigour to the strong friendship between the two countries as he arrived in Tokyo to......

For India, it may be China everywhere in Tokyo

The Dragon is likely to be a prominent discussion topic, as PM begins his three-day Japan visit, reports Shyamal Majumdar  The 40-minute drive from the Haneda International Airport......

World's 10 busiest airports

Four airports from United States figure in the list of world’s busiest airports. Photograph, courtesy: Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport     The passenger traffic......

Japan's ANA grounds all 17 Boeing 787s for emergency inspections after fire

All Nippon Airways is grounding all 17 of its Boeing 787 planes for inspection after one of its Dreamliners made an emergency landing in western Japan on Wednesday, the Japanese air carrier told......

Passenger traffic rose by 21% at Delhi airport in 2011

Delhi airport witnessed an impressive 21 per cent growth in passenger traffic in the Asia Pacific region which registered a 5.7 per cent increase in terms of it in 2011 as compared to 2010, a......

The world's busiest airports

Airports handle passengers and yes, freight. Gobs and bobs of freight. Everything from frozen partridges (and fresh pear trees) to multi-ton steam generators, an Orca or 700,000 bottles of wine by......

Olympics: Poland grant Belarus athlete humanitarian visa

'The head coach came over to me and said there had been an order from above to remove me.' A Belarusian opposition politician said Belarus officials had told Tsimanouskaya's mother that her......

Olympics: COVID-19 in Russian rugby camp, team isolating

IMAGE: Police officers patrol around the arrival gate at Haneda airport in Tokyo on Tuesday Following a surge in coronavirus infections in Tokyo, the government has placed the capital in its......

Serbian athlete tests positive on arrival in Japan for Olympics

The report comes after two members of the Ugandan Olympic delegation tested positive for the coronavirus last month upon arrival in Japan. One tested positive at Narita airport near Tokyo, but the......

Plane leaves Japan to collect Olympic flame, no 2020 delegates aboard

IMAGE: A member of the airport staff wearing a mask walks past the 'Tokyo 2020 Go' aircraft, before it departs for Greece, to transport the Olympic Flame back to Japan. Photograph: Issei......

Olympic flag arrives in Tokyo, governor calls for unity

IMAGE: Tokyo governor Yuriko Koike waves the Olympic flag as she walks out of a plane during a ceremony to mark the arrival of the Olympic flag at Haneda airport in Tokyo, Japan, on Wednesday.......