Images from Kabul airport reminds me of Kandahar horror: IC814 pilotIC814 was heading from Kathmandu to New Delhi on December 24, 1999 -- with 179 passengers and 11 crew members on board -- when it was hijac...
20 Aug, 2021, 06.15 PM IST
Secrecy surrounds location of former police chief of Kandahar in IndiaGeneral Tadeen Khan Achakzai is the brother of late popular warlord General Raziq, who ruled Kandahar, Afghanistan's second-largest city, t...
17 Aug, 2021, 07.07 AM IST
Kandahar’s fall signals America's stark failure in AfghanistanIt appears that the Taliban is on the way to triumph and Afghanistan is set to have a rerun of their brutal rule from 1996 to 2001, wiping ...
13 Aug, 2021, 07.28 PM IST
Big test for Ghani govt as Taliban launches simultaneous attacks on Kandahar, HeratThe Afghan government, as a result of the offensive, deployed hundreds of special forces on Sunday as the Taliban advanced to capture the c...
02 Aug, 2021, 09.13 AM IST
Rockets hit Kandahar airport in Afghanistan, says airport official"Last night three rockets were fired at the airport and two of them hit the runway... Due to this all flights from the airport have been ca...
01 Aug, 2021, 09.51 AM IST
United States pulls out of major Kandahar base in southern Afghanistan: Afghan armyAn Afghan army officer at Kandahar Airfield, who asked not to be named, told AFP that government forces would be left exposed by the pullou...
14 May, 2021, 03.41 PM IST
Hijack scare on Kandahar-bound plane at Delhi airportThe Ariana Afghan Airlines plane took off nearly two hours later after "satisfactory" security checks, sources said.
10 Nov, 2018, 08.19 PM IST
Airports Authority of India willing to manage Afghanistan's air traffic controlSources say six international companies have shown interest in bidding for Afghanistan's ATC, which is a crucial air corridor on the Europe...
20 May, 2015, 11.42 AM IST
Obama in India: Government tightens airport security"We have special drills on at 59 airports across the country wherein we check the readiness of the security staff," said CISF's Hemendra Si...
22 Jan, 2015, 12.47 PM IST
Air India starts ladder point checking for Kabul flights after hijacking alert by IB"The ladder-point checking at the Delhi airport is done by CISF personnel and the local security in Kabul does the checking there," an Air ...
07 Jan, 2015, 01.16 PM IST
- SC stays Nepal-India agreement on immigration, check posts
Nepal's SC today stayed implementation of the recently concluded agreement with India to upgrade the immigration system at Tribhuvan Intern...
08 Jul, 2013, 08.32 PM IST
- India says US-chartered plane violated airspace
Indian air traffic controllers ordered a cargo plane chartered by US government and carrying munitions to Afghanistan to land at Mumbai air...
20 Jun, 2009, 07.31 PM IST
- India orders Afghan-bound US plane to land: officials
Air traffic controllers forced a US-chartered cargo plane carrying ammunition to Afghanistan to land at Mumbai airport after it violated In...
20 Jun, 2009, 12.37 PM IST
- Russian origin military plane violates Indian airspace
A military cargo aircraft AN-124 of Russian origin carrying ammunitions and five persons on board tonight intruded into Indian airspace and...
20 Jun, 2009, 12.25 AM IST
- Airport security: A desirable business for pvt security cos
The aftermath of hijack of IC-814 to Kandahar, the 9/11 attack and the foiled Glasgow airport bombing in UK has made aviation and airport s...
21 Mar, 2008, 06.02 PM IST
- Govt plans no-talks policy, death for hijackers
With the 9/11 terrorist attacks and the humiliating 1999 Kandahar hijack firmly on its radar, the UPA government plans to amend the Anti-Hi...
14 Feb, 2008, 04.25 AM IST
- Kandahar hijack: All 3 accused held guilty
A special court in Patiala has held Abdul Latif, Dalip Kumar and Yusuf Nepali guilty in the hijacking case of an Indian Airlines plane at K...
05 Feb, 2008, 03.06 PM IST