Good Evening friends, its 8-30 pm and I just got this shocking new. 5 blast rock Delhi.The complete new is as under.
Five explosions rocked busy market places in New Delhi on Saturday evening, killing 20 people and injuring many others.
The Blasts at Ghaffar market in Karol Bagh, at Connaught Place and Greater Kailash took place in a quick succession, police said.
The first blast took place at Ghaffar market in which at least 20 people were injured. They were rushed to nearby RML hospital.
Immediately after that two explosions took place in Connaught Place in which at least 10 people were injured.
Another explosion rocked M-Block market in Greater Kailash-I.
The impact of the the blasts in Karol Bagh could be gauged by the fact that an auto was thrown up and got caught in the electrical wires.
Senior Police officials including Joint Commissioner of Police Karnail Singh rushed to the spot in the central district and were assessing the situation.
In Ghaffar market, the explosive was believed to have been kept near a Maruti car. Several vehicles were badly damaged due to the impactof the blast.
In Barakhamba Road, one of the bombs was suspected to be placed near Nirmal tower. The second blast in the CP took place near Gopal Das Bhavan and the third one in central park.
At least eight people were injured in these two blasts. In the GK-I blast two people were injured who were rushed to a nearby hospital. Eight to ten shops were damaged in the explosion that took place at around 6:40 pm. The bomb was suspected kept in a dust bin.
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Thursday, August 21, 2008
Delhi gets Asia's longest runway
The New Delhi airport said on Thursday it planned to soon open Asia's longest runway after conducting a successful test take-off and landing.
Officials hope the runway will ease huge congestion at the country’s second busiest airline hub, an official said.
The 4.43-kilometre (2.7-mile) strip is "the longest in Asia," said the spokesman for the Delhi International Airport Ltd., beating Kuala Lumpur International Airport's 4.12-kilometre runway.
Officials carried out "a trial take-off and landing by an Air India aircraft without any passengers," airport official Arun Arora told AFP .
"The tests were successful. The date for starting commercial operations will be announced soon," Arora said.
The new runway will nearly double the airport's peak-hour capacity from 35-40 aircraft landings and take-offs to about 75. The two currently operational parallel runways handle nearly 700 flights a day.
"The hovering time- which has come down with measures like rapid exit taxi-ways that allow planes to move away from the runway faster, and reducing time between two flight take-offs- is still about 20 minutes," said another Delhi airport official who did not wished to be named.
"We hope the new runway will cut it down further," he said.
Other problems -- including cancellations or delays due to poor visibility in winter and water-logging in the monsoon -- will also be solved thanks to the new runway, officials said.
"The runway is equipped with a state-of-the art instrument landing system at both ends that will allow landing even when visibility is as low as 50 metres (yards)," Arora said.
New Delhi, host of the 2010 Commonwealth Games, is also sprucing up infrastructure to allow carriers like Emirates, British Airways and Air France to operate Airbus's flagship A380 on routes to the capital.
ref: TOI, agents resources, insurance software
Officials hope the runway will ease huge congestion at the country’s second busiest airline hub, an official said.
The 4.43-kilometre (2.7-mile) strip is "the longest in Asia," said the spokesman for the Delhi International Airport Ltd., beating Kuala Lumpur International Airport's 4.12-kilometre runway.
Officials carried out "a trial take-off and landing by an Air India aircraft without any passengers," airport official Arun Arora told AFP .
"The tests were successful. The date for starting commercial operations will be announced soon," Arora said.
The new runway will nearly double the airport's peak-hour capacity from 35-40 aircraft landings and take-offs to about 75. The two currently operational parallel runways handle nearly 700 flights a day.
"The hovering time- which has come down with measures like rapid exit taxi-ways that allow planes to move away from the runway faster, and reducing time between two flight take-offs- is still about 20 minutes," said another Delhi airport official who did not wished to be named.
"We hope the new runway will cut it down further," he said.
Other problems -- including cancellations or delays due to poor visibility in winter and water-logging in the monsoon -- will also be solved thanks to the new runway, officials said.
"The runway is equipped with a state-of-the art instrument landing system at both ends that will allow landing even when visibility is as low as 50 metres (yards)," Arora said.
New Delhi, host of the 2010 Commonwealth Games, is also sprucing up infrastructure to allow carriers like Emirates, British Airways and Air France to operate Airbus's flagship A380 on routes to the capital.
ref: TOI, agents resources, insurance software
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