A major fire broke out in one of the hangars at Begumpet airport in Hyderabad late Monday night in which an aeroplane and a helicopter are suspected to be gutted, fire department officials said.
'The agenda in politics should be service-oriented. But in Telangana the mandate of those who got mandate -- their entire focus is to abuse Modi'
This is the second time in the last four months that KCR has avoided meeting Modi during the latter's visit to Hyderabad.
Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao will not receive Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the airport, who is arriving in Hyderabad on Saturday to participate in the two-day long BJP National Executive meeting.
A Cabinet decision is still awaited on the induction of Dreamliner into the cash-strapped AI fleet.
The aircraft (Airbus A-320 model) belonging to Air India was being transported by road from Begumpet airport to Central Training Establishment at Ferozguda in Balanagar when the crane bars got bent down and the aircraft suddenly fell on a nearby compound wall.
President Pranab Mukherjee arrived in Hyderabad on Wednesday for the customary winter sojourn during which he will stay at Rashtrapati Nilayam at Bolaram till January 1 next.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh should opt for an honourable exit by resigning from the top post -- in the wake of Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi's outburst against the Union government's ordinance on convicted legislators -- believes Bharatiya Janata Party's senior leader Arun Jaitley.
The base will be used by carriers such as Alliance Air, a subsidiary of Air India, to operate 70-seater ATR aircraft to places such as Bengaluru.
These photographs were taken minutes before Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Rajasekhara Reddy embarked upon the fatal journey from old Begumpet Airport at 8.35 am on Wednesday to Chittor district.
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy has been killed in a helicopter crash in the dense Nallamalla forest.The wreckage has been located between Rollapenta and Rudra Koderu in Kurnool district.The helicopter had apparently met with an accident and crashed, according to Rudra Koderu Police Inspector Janardhan Rao.
A chronological account of events that led to the tragic death of Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy.
A three-member panel has been set up by the authorities to probe whether a three-storeyed residential building, into which a Navy plane crashed during an airshow in Hyderabad, had an "illegal" extra floor.
Two pilots and a civilian were killed after a naval aircraft crashed on a nearby residential building near Begumpet airport during an air show in Hyderabad on Wednesday morning, city police said.
The pilot of the naval aircraft that crashed during the India Aviation airshow in Hyderabad is dead, said the Hyderabad police chief on Wednesday.
An image of Pratibha Patil in Hyderabad as part of her campaign.
The two pilots on board in the helicopter carrying Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy, which went missing a hour after it took off from Hyderbad on Wednesday morning, were identified as Captain S K Bhatia and co-pilot M S Reddy, according to sources.
Even as the date for the two new state-of-the-art international airports in Bangalore and Hyderabad to start operations comes closer, lobbying to prevent closure of the existing facilities -- at the Airport Authority of India's Begumpet airport in Hyderabad and HAL airport in Bangalore -- has got louder.
India has announced suspension of all tourist visas till April 15 in a bid to contain the spread of the virus.
A trainee pilot and his trainer were killed when their Cessna trainer aircraft crashed in to thickly populated area near Begumpet airport in Hyderabad on Monday morning.
He was among two army officers who were killed in the encounter.
The Nehru-Gandhis were not the only family to be slapped in the face by voters in Karnataka tired of being taken for granted. The Bangarappa and Deve Gowda clans have also been humbled.
Dr Singh had a brief review of the state's security scenario in the context of the police firing at Mudigonda which resulted in the death of six persons and bullet injuries to eight others.
KCR said despite 'bhaashanbaazi', industries are closing down, the nation's GDP is crashing and the rupee is falling drastically compared to the US dollar.
National Investigation Agency brought Dilsukhnagar bomb blast suspect and Indian Mujahideen co-founder Yasin Bhatkal to Hyderabad on a transit warrant on Sunday.
With the Telangana Bill having been passed in Parliament, a victorious Telangana Rashtra Samiti president K Chandrasekhar Rao returned to Hyderabad today from New Delhi to a hero's welcome by thousands of enthusiastic TRS party workers.
The four-day event, which will conclude on March 11, saw many foreign aircraft companies display their flying machines. Rediff.com's Venkata Sathish gives a preview.
Slots, parking bays unavailable at major airports
Hassan Rouhani to offer Friday prayers in Hyderabad's Mecca Masjid.
'Both the governor and the President enjoy an enormous array of 'grey' powers.' 'All parties criticise these when in the Opposition. But why does no government dismantle them when these parties come to power?' asks Aditi Phadnis.
T S Sudhir, who was present at the occasion, reports
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