The DGCA would inquire how the monitor of the area western radar went blank for over three minutes soon after the aircraft took off from the Kolkata airport on Thursday morning, a ministry spokesperson said in New Delhi
The civil aviation ministry on Friday said the aircraft carrying President Pratibha Patil never lost contact with the air traffic control while flying to Aizawl and was put on an alternate radio frequency immediately after an Air Traffic Control monitor suffered technical glitch.
Jame Abraham, Bonnie Wells Wilson Distinguished Professor and Eminent Scholar in Breast Cancer Research at West Virginia University, joined the leagues of actor Amitabh Bachchan and Carnatic musician M Balamurali Krishna when he received the Vaidya Bhooshanam award from Indian President Pratibha Patil in New Delhi.
President Pratibha Patil, Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh and Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Saturday visited the residence of Arjun Singh to pay their last respect to the party veteran who died in New Delhi.
Senior Indian Administrative Service officer P J Thomas was on Tuesday sworn in as the new Central Vigilance Commissioner amid a boycott by main Opposition Bharatiya Janata Party, which has been objecting to his appointment to the post in view of his alleged tainted background.
With President Pratibha Patil rejecting the clemency petitions of three killers of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, the mother of one of them on Friday demanded a 'fresh and transparent trial' and claimed her son was not at all connected with it.
Addressing a joint sitting of Parliament, she said commencement of train services in the Kashmir Valley from Qazigund to Baramulla demonstrates the government's commitment to development of all corners of our country.
Addressing Parliament on the first day of Budget session, President Pratibha Patil said steps have already been initiated for negotiations to enter into agreements for the exchange of information with major jurisdictions.
Combating inflation, protecting the common man from the impact of rising food prices and sustaining the momentum of economic growth while ensuring the poor get a fair share of the "fruits of growth" are among the government's "foremost priorities" in 2011-12, President Pratibha Patil said in her address to Parliament this week.
Dr Mumtaz Ali, Karnataka minister for wakf and minorities welfare, in an interview to Vicky Nanjappa says a ban on cow slaughter does not mean that people will not survive.
In a House of 243, the ruling United Progressive Alliance has the clear support of 101 members and needs at least another 21 members to ensure a simple majority for the bill
President Pratibha Patil on Monday made public her movable and immovable properties worth over Rs 2.49 crore on the request of Central Information Commissioner as she completed four years in office. Rediff.com takes a look at the total worth of some other politicians in the country, and tries to find out where our President stands.
Former Rajasthan minister Mohammad Ameen Khan, who was forced to resign from Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot's cabinet following his controversial remarks against President Pratibha Patil, claims that his opponents had blown the issue out of proportion with the connivance of the media.Khan had created a furore by allegedly stating that Patil was made the President due to her loyalty to the Gandhi family and cited instances of her association with Indira Gandhi.
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An embattled Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa is expected to return to Bengaluru on Monday from a week-long Mauritius holiday with family amid debate in the party on his future in the wake of Lokayukta's damning indictment on the mining scam.
President Pratibha Patil was the first of a billion-plus population in the country to be counted on Wednesday as lakhs of enumerators fanned out in a gigantic effort to document every citizen over the next three weeks in the world's second largest census.
After taking off in the frontline Sukhoi jet and riding a battle tank, President Pratibha Patil on Tuesday had a tryst with the Navy as she created history by becoming the first woman head of state to sail in a warship and review an impressive naval steampast.
L K Advani, chairman of Bhartiya Janata Party parliamentary party, led a delegation, of 33 members of Parliament including 23 from Karnataka, called on President Pratibha Patil on Monday and requested her to recall Karnataka governor H R Bhardwaj.
His huge delegation comprising six Cabinet ministers, including Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne, too, talked money.
In an unprecedented move for the first time, President Pratibha Patil came to the aid of a whistleblower officer of the Haryana government, ordering it to drop a chargesheet filed against him.
Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh amid speculation that a reshuffle of the Union Council of Ministers is on the cards later this week.
The Bombay High Court expressed strong objection to closing of roads by the Traffic Police Department to facilitate smooth travelling of VVIPs visiting the city and VIPs like the state chief minister, home minister and other ministers.
President Pratibha Patil on Saturday condoled the death of Sabarimala pilgrims in a stampede at Pullumedu in Kerala's Idukki district.In a letter to the Kerala chief minister and governor, she expressed grief over the tragedy.Patil wished a speedy recovery to all those injured in the incident that took place on Friday night. Over 100 pilgrims returning from the shrine were killed and 50 others injured in the stampede.
The government on Thursday committed itself to continue financial sector reforms by easing foreign investment policy, recapitalising state-owned banks and establishing a regulator for the pension sector.
The government on Thursday said it would expeditiously clear pending proposals in the infrastructure sector under the public-private partnership (PPP) mode while making regulations, governing this area, investment friendly.
10 broad areas of priority" for the United Progressive Alliance government in the next five years were outlined by President Pratibha Patil in her address to the joint sitting of Parliament on Thursday
In the midst of opposition protests in Karnataka over the illegal mining issue, Governor H R Bharadwaj on Tuesday met President Pratibha Patil.
The comments come within a month of the arrest of seven people, including the chief executive of LIC Housing Finance by the Central Bureau of Investigation in connection with the scandal.
President Pratibha Patil ordered the suspension of Prasar Bharti's controversial CEO B S Lalli, who is in the eye of a storm facing allegations of irregularities in the country's largest public broadcaster.
Elaborate security arrangements have been made ahead of the visit of President Pratibha Patil and her Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev in Mumbai on Wednesday, the police said.
Opposition parties in Tamil Nadu, led by All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, on Tuesday appealed to President Pratibha Patil to give consent for use of Tamil as the official language in Madras high court before attending the World Classical Tamil Conference in Coimbatore this week.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday met President Pratibha Patil and discussed the internal security situation. First the two had a one-on-one meeting after which Home Minister P Chidambaram joined in the discussion, in what was seen as a rare occasion.
She said the higher education in the country not only needs to expand its capacity but also make substantial qualitative improvement if it has to be the driver of sustainable economic development.
With President Pratibha Patil rejecting the mercy petition of two convicts on death row, the Bharatiya Janata Party on Friday raised the pitch for the hanging of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru and said the government was not bound to go by sequence while dealing with pending pleas.
Mitticool, a clay refrigerator that works without electricity had turned the world's attention to its creator Mansukhbhai Prajapati, a craftsman based in Gujarat.
Ashish Goyal breaks new ground by becoming the first blind student in foremost finance school and first blind trader in the world.
In a bid to counter the actions of Karnataka Governor H R Bharadwaj, the state Bharatiya Janata Party led by Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa paraded 114 members of Parliament before President Pratibha Patil at the Rashtrapati Bhawan on Tuesday.
President Pratibha Patil on Saturday said the commitment of China's top leadership, including her counterpart Hu Jintao, to strengthen Sino-Indian ties was evident during the 'wide-ranging and constructive' talks she had with them. In her first public engagement in Shanghai, China's gleaming business hub, Patil said India and China enjoy a thriving trade and economic relationship, vibrant cultural ties and also greater people-to-people exchanges.
In a subtle, but clear message, President Pratibha Patil told China on Friday that "mutual understanding of each other's sensitivities" held the key to "deeper and sturdier friendship" between the two Asian giants.
With the exit of Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam leader A Raja from the Union government in the wake of the massive telecom scam and President Pratibha Patil accepting his resignation late on Monday evening, Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee is likely to table the CAG report on the 2G spectrum controversy in Parliament on Tuesday.
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