New Delhi: Aviation watchdog DGCA has set up a four-member committee to carry out a comprehensive review and assessment of the circumstances that led to the massive flight disruptions. The panel members are Joint Director General Sanjay K Bramhane, Deputy Director General Amit Gupta, Senior...
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi Friday expressed confidence that the USD 100 billion bilateral trade target between India and Russia will be achieved ahead of the 2030 deadline, as he invited Russian investment in the country. Speaking alongside visiting Russian President Vladimir Putin at...
New Delhi: Civil Aviation Minister K Ram Mohan Naidu Friday said various operational measures, including keeping new flight duty norms in abeyance, will help address the IndiGo flight disruptions, and complete restoration of services is expected in next three days. The government has also decided...
London: European Union regulators Friday fined Elon Musk's social media platform X 120 million euros (USD 140 million) for failing to comply with the bloc's digital regulations. The European Commission issued its decision following an investigation it opened two years ago into X under the...
Madrid: Internet infrastructure company Cloudflare Friday said it was investigating an outage that took place in the morning that brought down several global websites including LinkedIn, Zoom and others, the second such crash to affect the company in less than three weeks. Cloudflare said the...
Mumbai: Stock market benchmark indices Sensex and Nifty rallied Friday after the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) cut key benchmark interest rate for the first time in six months and took steps to boost liquidity to support a "goldilocks" economy in the face of high...
New Delhi: India and Russia Friday firmed up a five-year plan to bolster economic and trade partnership in the face of Washington's punitive tariff and sanctions regime even as Prime Minister Narendra Modi conveyed to President Vladimir Putin that the war in Ukraine must be...
New Delhi: The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) Friday eased some pilot duty rules with immediate effect after low-cost airline IndiGo was hit by a massive staff crunch, resulting in the cancellation of several flights across the country. To control the spiralling crisis, the...
New Delhi: Airfares on several major routes surged to extraordinary levels on Friday after IndiGo cancelled all its domestic departures from Delhi Airport until midnight. The sudden grounding created an immediate shortage of seats, triggering a sharp rise in last-minute ticket prices across the country....
New Delhi: The massive disruption caused by IndiGo’s cancellation of nearly 500 flights reverberated in Parliament Friday, with opposition members accusing the airline of “monopolistic practices” and the “government of regulatory laxity”. Congress MP Pramod Tiwari raised the issue during Zero Hour in the Rajya...
After numerous hiccups, threats and counter-threats exchanged between US President Donald Trump and Iran’s top leadership, the US and Iran...
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The fate of UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, whose popularity rating had been alarmingly dipping, was sealed the moment Andy...
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In a disconcerting new report, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has revealed that almost every child in India is...
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By Aakar Patel Last week, on 17 June, it was reported that the ‘US has renamed the Indo-Pacific Command back...
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