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Saturday, April 27, 2024
TopicAir India

Topic: Air India

Fiscal stress offers Modi govt great opportunity to push disinvestment

Disinvestment receipts are budgeted at Rs 1.05 lakh crore for FY20 but until Aug govt earned just Rs 12,358 crore, or 12 per cent of budgeted amount.

Air India promises to clear Rs 5,000-crore due, oil companies hold decision to stop fuel

Three state-owned companies had threatened to stop aviation turbine fuel supplies to six major airports over payment delays by Air India.

Imran Khan keeps a close watch as the Sino-Indian rock balances on thin ice

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

Govt should not be running airports & airlines, determined to sell Air India: Minister Puri

Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri said people are keen to acquire Air India and the Modi govt wants to get the best deal in the shortest time.

Air India owes oil companies Rs 5,000 crore for its fuel bills, say officials

IOC, BPCL and HPCL had written to Air India more than a week ago asking for the dues to be cleared, and warning of action if payment wasn't made.

All about the 2 deadly Air India crashes in France whose victims Modi will honour today

The crashes occurred in the same region of France in 1950 and 1966. The 1966 crash killed Homi Jehangir Bhabha, revered as the father of India’s nuclear programme.

Fuel supply to Air India stopped at 6 airports over pending dues

Air India said flight operation have not been affected after fuel supply was stopped at the Cochin, Visakhapatnam, Mohali, Ranchi, Pune and Patna airports.

CBI questions former civil aviation minister Praful Patel in aviation scam

The CBI alleged Praful Patel abused his official position to make Air India give up profit-making routes and timings in favour of national and international private airlines.

In a tit-for-tat move, US bars Air India from managing ground operations at its airports

US govt retaliates against India’s decision to not permit the country’s airlines to handle their own ground operations at Indian airports.

Amit Shah to head reconstituted ministerial panel on Air India sale, Nitin Gadkari dropped

The panel which will work out modalities for sale of Air India will now have four ministers.

On Camera

Congress can’t deny Modi’s charge of Muslim quota. Karnataka & 2009 manifesto are proof

The issue of the Muslim quota has the potential to polarise SCs, STs, and OBCs along religious lines in the ongoing Lok Sabha elections. It benefits the BJP.

A scrap revolution for recyclists, it’s an opportunity too good to waste

Recycling 'energy-transition metals' - or metals from batteries, electric vehicles and renewable-energy products offers abundant growth potential.

Germany removes restrictions, India can now buy small arms from its firms

Germany’s erstwhile Christian Democratic Union govt, led by Angela Merkel, prevented sale of small arms to police forces in states they perceived had ‘bad human rights record’.

Frontrunner is letting the challenger define this poll campaign. Modi still hasn’t found a big theme

A theme has not yet emerged for BJP & people see lack of a contest, which makes it unexciting. For all these reasons, 2024 is turning out to be an unexpectedly theme-less election.