Officials said passengers on board the two aircraft -- Royal Nepal Airlines (Delhi-Kathmandu) and Air India (Delhi-Bhubaneswar) -- were evacuated.
The rate, which has been reduced from 14.25 per cent, will benefit all existing home loan and auto loan customers, the bank said. Besides, the bank reduced it benchmark lending rate by half a percentage points to 16.75 per cent.
Commonwealth Games champion Parupalli Kashyap and young H S Prannoy registered contrasting wins in the men's singles to enter the second round of the Singapore Open Super Series badminton tournament.
A stunning fifty by Virender Sehwag set up India's confident chase of 387 in the first Test after twin hundreds enabled England put up a challenging target. At stumps on day four in Chennai on Sunday, India were strongly placed at 131 for one with opener Gautam Gambhir on a gritty 41 along with Rahul Dravid (2). They still need 256 for victory.
Chat with Ram Krishnan on the Pan-IIT 2008 event.
A number of Lucknow-based small builders are facing crunch due to the rise in inflation and increase in the interest rate by banks.
It seems clear that with Mayawati seizing the initiative and gaining momentum as the prime ministerial candidate, the BJP was not anxious to play into her hands and help in the toppling game for which the party would get little credit.
Virender Sehwag lit up the fifth one dayer with a scintillating 91 as India thumped England by six wickets to stretch their lead to 5-0 at the Barabati Stadium in Cuttack on Wednesday night.
"The Budget is in line with expectations. With the election year fast approaching, the Finance Minister has proposed a populist Budget aimed at using fiscal measures to boost growth and control inflation," said Anirudh Sarathy, analyst for StreetEdge Investments in San Ramon, California.
After the debacle of Tashan and Thoda Pyar Thoda Magic, Yash Raj Films is pinning hopes on its next venture, Bachna Ae Haseeno, starring Ranbir Kapoor, Deepika Padukone, Minisha Lamba and Bipasha Basu.
Co-nominated with Ali is Peter Georgi, Ali's former senior humanitarian advisor and co-founder along with Ali of the Children's General Assembly and its launching organisation the Children's Peace Foundation.
David Leavitt, one of America's distinguished writers, chose to write on the relationship between mathematicians G H Hardy and Srinivasa Ramanujan.
Mumbai's Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport has been voted as the 'Best Airport in India' according to a survey of passengers and opinion makers conducted by Air Passengers Association of India.
Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam--now ranked among the top 20 offshoring locations, the report said.
Some 40,000 Rohingyas have settled in India, and 16,000 of them have received refugee documentation, the UN estimates.
Why is it that an artist's work can vary so greatly that values can range from the humdrum average (in a manner of speaking) to the extortionately phenomenal?
By prosecuting copyright infringers in Asia, it drives consumers into the Linux camp.
Pachamarathanalil, the directorial debut Leo Thaddeus tries to cash in on Sreenivasan's image but falls flat as the story does not have enough meat.
World number one Roger Federer got back into his old routine with a 6-3, 6-4 defeat of France's Gael Monfils to reach the Monte Carlo Masters quarter-finals on Thursday.
The Dornier plane was in "no way on the flight path of the PM's aircraft," sources in the Airports Authority of India said quoting preliminitary investigations into the incident. The blip on the radar was detected by the Air Traffic Control.
But for the entertaining second half, Thamaashegaagi can be passed off as yet another also-ran film.
Bengal restricted Punjab at 210 runs for seven on the first day of the Ranji Trophy Super division match.
Though the run-up to the ULFA raising day this year was violence-free unlike in previous years, the outfit targetted the Kolkata-bound Kamrup Express by planting an improvised explosive devise on a bicycle in Namrup railway station in Dibrugarh district on Monday morning. The IED was detected by the 44 Field Regiment and defused, the sources said.
The warrants were issued by the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate K J Upadhyay after the Gujarat CID filed an application that neither of them had replied to their summons regading the case.
Saakshi Tanwar, who is best known for her role of Parvati in the popular Kaahani Ghar Ghar Ki, has a lot in her kitty starting with her role as Ganga in the mythological serial Kahani Hamaarey Mahabharat Ki. She tells Rajul Hegde more about her her epic turn.
As expected, it took North Zone just one session to retain their Duleep Trophy title, and in the process win the competition for a record 17th time.
The announcement comes a day after Sathyaraj, who plays the role of Kattappa in the movie, apologised.
Fresh floods hit at least six districts of northern Orissa on Monday affecting over 13 lakh people as major rivers in the region were rising alarmingly following heavy rains caused by depression.
An indication in this regard was given by Minister of Information and Broadcasting P R Dasmunsi, who acknowledged that there has been pressing demand from the radio broadcasters to let them air news along with entertainment and gossip.
The economy is likely to grow at about 5.6 per cent in 2014-15 and fiscal and current account deficits no longer pose a threat to macroeconomic stability, India Ratings said on Friday.
The action against the two journalists came as a privately-owned television station in the Maldives went off the air, citing threats during the country's current state of emergency.
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