Tag: Jakarta

Jakarta: India claimed two medals in the equestrian event of the 18th Asian Games with Fouaad Mirza securing the silver in individual jumping event besides guiding the country to a second-place finish in the team competition, here today. Mirza won the silver medal with a score of 26.40, while Japan’s Oiwa Yoshiaki clinched the gold […]

Jakarta/Singapore: An AirAsia plane with 162 people aboard went missing en route from Indonesia to Singapore today after pilots requested a change of flight plan due to bad weather, triggering a massive search in the third major incident this year involving a Malaysian carrier. AirAsia Flight QZ8501 with 155 people on board — including one […]

Bhubaneswar: Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Monday felicitated six hockey players from Odisha who were part of the Indian teams that bagged medals in the recently-concluded Asian Games 2018 in Jakarta. At an event organised at the State Secretariat in Bhubaneswar, Patnaik gave away prize money of Rs 1 crore each to the four women […]

Jakarta: At least one person was killed, four others injured and 1,000 people were displaced when a 6.9 earthquake struck the strait between the Indonesian islands of Java and Sumatra, officials said on Saturday. The quake that occurred on Friday night, caused structural damage in over 100 buildings, including 58 houses and a mosque in […]

Jakarta: The wreckage of the missing Indonesian submarine was located on the sea floor off Bali Island with all 53 crew members aboard dead, top military officers said. The Nanggala-402…

Bhubaneswar: A tribal girl from Odisha’s Koraput district has brought laurels for the State by winning the Miss India International Photogenic title at a beauty pageant in Jakarta, Indonesia recently. Santwana B Simran, who belongs to Desia tribe, an ethnic indigenous community of Koraput, won the crown by defeating 20 other contestants. She is the […]

Jakarta: The death toll due to the floods in the Jakarta metropolitan area has increased to 60, Indonesian authorities said on Sunday, adding that many areas in the capital remain inundated. The majority of the deaths – 51 – occurred in Jakarta and its satellite cities, the Indonesian National Board for Disaster Management (BNBP) said […]