South Korean investigators probing the Jeju Air crash that killed 179 people in the worst aviation disaster on their territory said Wednesday they will send one of the recovered black boxes to the United States for analysis. The plane was carrying 181 people from Thailand on Sunday when it issued a distress call and landed…
MUMBAI: Bombay traffic police penalized 17,800 motorists and collected Rs 89.19 lakh as fine for violation of traffic rules during the new year celebrations in the city, an official said Wednesday. Police conducted the search from New Year’s Eve until early Wednesday morning.Action has been taken against people driving drunk, obstructing free flow of traffic,…
HONOLULU – Harry Chandler, a Navy medic who helped pull wounded sailors from the oily waters of Pearl Harbor after the 1941 Japanese attack on the naval base, has died. He was 103 years old. Chandler died Monday at a senior center in Tequesta, Florida, according to Ron Mahaffee, husband of his granddaughter Kelli Fahey….
Next year will see some changes to existing tax measures, but those changes are expected to have only minor impacts on people. Daniel Rogozynski of the University of Waterloo’s School of Accounting and Finance told CBC News that, for the most part, 2025 will be a “status quo year” on the fiscal front. “There’s not…
Five people were killed across Germany and a police officer was seriously injured in accidents involving the powerful fireworks that Germans traditionally set off to celebrate the New Year, police said in a preliminary count. Germans celebrate the new year with especially heavy use of fireworks, sparking a recurring debate about banning the most powerful…
NEW DELHI: Air India flights – both national and international – operated in its Airbus A350, Boeing 787-9 and some A321neo aircraft will now have Wi-Fi internet. This makes the Tata Group company the first Indian airline to offer Wi-Fi connectivity on board on domestic flights, “allowing travelers to browse, access social media, catch up…
A Colorado man will spend New Year’s Eve behind bars, charged with bias crimes for allegedly trying to strangle a television reporter while saying, “This is Trump’s America now,” authorities said. Patrick Thomas Egan, 39, was arrested Dec. 18 and charged with a series of charges stemming from the unprovoked assault of KJCT reporter Ja-Ronn…
A school division in southern Alberta says colleagues, friends and students will deeply miss one of their teachers, who was the victim of a double homicide over the weekend. In a statement Tuesday, Rocky View Schools said Ania Kaminski had been working as a teacher at an elementary school in Cochrane, northwest of Calgary, before…
Bulls celebrated the new year on the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) with a fresh rally of 1,500 points on Wednesday in intraday trading. The KSE-100 index rose 1,544.18, or 1.34 percent, to settle at 116,681.01 points from the previous close of 115,126.90 at 11:53 am. Awais Ashraf, Head of Research at AKD Securities, said the…
Goa beaches become places of celebration as people welcome the New Year PANAJI: Thousands of tourists and local residents flocked to Goa beaches after midnight on Wednesday to ring in the New Year. At night there was heavy traffic on several roads leading to the beaches, even as state police had regulated the movement of…