Nepal crash: Toll rises to 71; search on for missing body

Nepalese authorities on Tuesday started handing over to family members the bodies of those killed, two days after Yeti Airlines' aircraft with 72 people, including five Indians, crashed in the......

'We have to be prepared for the invisible enemy'

'Unlike on the western and eastern borders where there is an enemy at the gate, here there is an invisible enemy which is building its own capability and can come into play at a time and place of......

Govt reshuffles bureaucrats, Air India chairman is aviation secretary

Air India Chairman Rajiv Bansal has been appointed as the new aviation secretary as part of a major top-level bureaucratic reshuffle effected by the Centre on Wednesday. IMAGE: Prime Minister......

Full text: President Murmu's address to Parliament's Budget Session

‘Wherever in the world there is political instability, those countries are beset with severe crises today. But India is in a much better position than the rest of the world due to the......

Indian aviation schools fly abroad

To cash in on the rapidly growing demand for pilots, Indian aviation academies are setting up training facilities abroad where they can churn out pilots as quickly as in eight months, compared to......

China launches world's first electric plane

China has made the world's first electric passenger aircraft that could be used in pilot training, tourism, meteorology and rescue operations, state media reported on Friday. The BX1E has a......

UB plans Rs 200 crore aviation varsity

UB group, the promoter of Kingfisher Airlines, will start an aviation university with an estimated cost of Rs 200 crore. The university will house a fully equipped pilot training centre. "The......

Tatas propose Rs 500 cr aerospace hub in Andhra

The Tata Group, which pioneered air travel in the country, has proposed to set up a Rs 500 crore (Rs 5 billion) defence and civil aerospace hub in Andhra Pradesh for manufacture of allied......

'American empire is coming to an end'

In the first part of our exclusive conversation, Lord David Puttnam spoke about his association with cinema, and how he came to be an Oscar-winning producer.Here, in the conclusion to a tete-a-tete......