The aviation minister said the Centre and state governments owe Air India for VVIP travel, evacuation operations, travel of foreign dignitaries among other services.
Tuhin Kanta Pandey, Secretary, Department of Investment and Public Asset Management, says the government's exit from many sectors will help it to neutrally administer its policy-making role.
In the Union Budget for 2021-22, the aviation ministry has been allocated Rs 3,224 crore, a dip of 22% compared to Rs 4,131 crore allocated for the current fiscal.
Only four sectors will be classified as strategic, CPSEs in other sectors will be privatised. Two banks and one general insurance firm will also be privatised in FY22.
The government Monday said all UK-India flights will be suspended from 23-31 December in view of the emergence of new strain of coronavirus in that country.
Each employee will have to contribute at least Rs 100,000 to the bid. Air India has been on sale since 2017 when PM Modi’s cabinet allowed to sell all or part of the airline.
I am not saying Odd-Even is the solution, but it's a long-term measure that should be normalised in cities choking from congestion. What's happening to our cities—not just Delhi—is unsustainable.
While main elements behind terror module have been nabbed, more arrests will take place, including some professors & academicians who were part of the ring, it is learnt.
Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.
How many million Edits one has read which say, Bite the bullet. That time has come for our beloved Maharajah.