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Wednesday, November 12, 2025
TopicAir India

Topic: Air India

Modi govt seeks Parliament nod to pump Rs 230 billion into Air India after failed sale bid

Air India, which hasn’t made money in more than a decade, has been surviving on taxpayer bailouts.

Not just Air India, Shah Rukh Khan is de facto cheerleader of lost causes

Shah Rukh Khan might be just what the doctor ordered for poor, ailing Air India.

Sacked Air India pilot Arvind Kathpalia accused of risking safety of PM Manmohan Singh

In 2007, Kathpalia who was flying the AI One carrying then PM Manmohan Singh to Moscow, allegedly forgot to lower landing gear.

Captain Kathpalia removed as Air India’s director of operations after failing pre-flight alcohol test

Kathpalia was taken off flying duties earlier also in February 2017 and his licence suspended for three months after he skipped the BA test before a flight.

Air India’s chief of operations fails alcohol test 2nd time in a year, grounded for 3 years

Captain A.K. Kathpalia, who was to operate AI-111 flight to London from New Delhi Sunday, was replaced after his alcohol test came positive.

Flights delayed after Air India’s ground-handling staff go on strike at Mumbai airport

A section of employees of the carrier's ground handling subsidiary went on a strike against non-payment of Diwali bonus.

Air India gets ₹1000 cr from Small Savings Fund: Wasting public money or last-minute push?

Cash-strapped Air India has got Rs 1,000 crore from the National Small Savings Fund, and may raise Rs 500 crore from banks by next...

Air India flight from Trichy hits a wall & then flies for 4 hours before landing

Passengers on a Dubai-bound Air India Express flight had a miraculous escape when their aircraft's wheels hit a perimeter wall during take off.

Airline business is booming, says Jayant Sinha

Says some private players are in crisis due to the dynamics of the airlines sector

Govt owes Air India over Rs 1146.86 crore for VVIP charter flights

The Defence Ministry has outstanding bills of Rs 211.17 crore, Cabinet Secretariat and PMO Rs 543.18 crore and External Affairs Ministry Rs 392.33 crore.

On Camera

Air purifiers are the new water filters. Delhi has quietly accepted a crisis

The affluent in Delhi, armed with airtight windows, multiple purifiers, and humidifiers, have normalised a way of life that once seemed dystopian.

India’s factory data may get reality check in MoSPI’s new IIP plan, defunct factories to be dropped

MoSPI proposes to remove closed factories from IIP sample, aiming for truer picture of India’s industrial health in upcoming 2022–23 base series. Plan open to public feedback until 25 November.

‘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.