'I told them India was like a giant jumbo jet. It would take off slowly and be unstoppable'

This doctor couple put their faith in India. And in return India has put faith in them. IMAGE: The Parikhs in Paris in 1984. On December 5, 1988, a cold winter evening, an Air India plane touched......

8 cheetahs to arrive in India in this special jet

A specially customised B747 jumbo jet has arrived in the Namibian capital, Windhoek, to bring eight cheetahs to India's Kuno National Park in Madhya Pradesh where they will be......

Talbott's tweet: LeT has major plans to attack India from the skies

Strobe Talbott’s tweet that hijackers may have wanted to use the missing Malaysian flight to attack Indian cities should be seen in the context of Lashkar-e-Tayiba’s long standing plans......

Intnl airliner makes emergency landing in Kolkata

A Qantasairliner caught fire midair and landed at Kolkata's Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose international airport on Tuesday morning.The jumbo jet, flying from Singapore to London, was forced to execute......

Lufthansa flies world's newest aircraft to India

Opening a new chapter in Indian aviation, Lufthansa's Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental touched down for the first time in the country at 0035 on Tuesday.A grand water canon salute welcomed the arrival......

Sneak Peek: Lufthansa brings the new B747-8 aircraft to India

German carrier Lufthansa said in a press release that it would operate the latest Boeing 747-8 jumbo jet between Delhi and Frankfurt from August 2012, making it the second destination for the......

From bullock cart to biofuel

The other day I was reading about the Virgin Atlantic 747 jumbo jet that flew last week from London to Amsterdam on biofuel. It's quite a record - Virgin is now the first airline in the world to......

Air India invites bids to lease out 3 aircraft

In a spree to lease out part of its fleet to earn and become trim, Air India on Wednesday invited bids to lease out at least three of its Boeing B-747 jumbo jets for six months or more. This is......

Phelps shines on biggest stage

It is lucky for Michael Phelps that he is blessed with broad shoulders and an arm span like the wings on a jumbo jet. Not only does it enable him to swim like a fish but it also helps him to carry......

Olympic flame arrives in Beijing

The 2004 Olympic flame arrivedin the Chinese capital on Tuesday for the fifth leg of a six-week 78,000-km-long global torch relay leading up to the Athens Games in August.A small lantern carrying......

Jet-lagged Team India unhappy with travel schedule for New Zealand

'A lot of people had problems in adjusting with the change of time and it affected their sleeping pattern' India's Virat Kohli and Mahendra Singh Dhoni warm-up prior to the start of their ICC......