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Thursday, November 13, 2025
TopicAir India

Topic: Air India

Air India’s ‘great offer’, the ‘poha test’ and no ‘jan ki baat’

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

Modi govt begins new process to sell Air India, asks buyer to absorb Rs 23,000 crore debt

Air India will be sold fully but effective control needs to stay with Indian nationals, according to preliminary terms published Monday.

Air India pilot reinstated after being found guilty of sexual harassment by internal committee

A woman pilot had filed a complaint against Sachin Gupta last year. According to the complaint the alleged incident took place on 5 May.

Air India begins to polish its image in its quest for elusive buyers

Air India is trying to make itself more attractive to bidders by deploying more high-end seats & adding new flights by repairing grounded aircraft.

Modi govt plans to further ease FDI rules for insurance, aviation

Finance Ministry has suggested increasing limit on FDI in insurance companies to 74% from 49% and allowing foreign airlines to own Indian carriers.

Should Indian Railways be privatised to prevent it from going the Air India way?

The Narendra Modi government’s audacious move to merge the eight railway services into the Indian Railways Management Service has invited criticism from many in the sector.

Govt could miss Air India, BPCL privatisation target, faces Rs 50,000-cr deficit: Report

International Monetary Fund has urged Indian government to handle its budgeting better and increase transparency in fiscal reporting.

Privatising Air India only option, impossible to service its debt burden: Hardeep Singh Puri

At ThePrint’s Off The Cuff, Minister for Civil Aviation Hardeep Singh Puri says he wakes up to the ‘challenge of privatising Air India every day’.

Modi govt considering easing foreign control of airline rule to push Air India sale

The rule mandates that control of an airline always remain in Indian hands, one of several reasons global firms have been wary of bidding for Air India.

RSS affiliate calls Modi disinvestment plans anti-India, blames NITI Aayog consultants

In its Haridwar resolution, the Swadeshi Jagran Manch said it’s painful and unfair to call Air India a bad asset, and the decision to sell BPCL “not a good business decision”.

On Camera

This era has made journalistic independence harder than ever: New York Times publisher

Journalist Arthur Gregg Sulzberger delivered the Reuters Memorial Lecture on 4 March last year.

Inflation plunges to a 10-yr low of 0.25% in October. Here’s why

Record-low inflation gives RBI room to ease rates. Food prices have something to do with it.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

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.