Sunday, 22 May, 2022
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Topic: Aviation

Bidders for Jet Airways still not ready as liquidation threat looms

Bijou George -
Synergy Group & Prudent ARC had submitted expressions of interest for Jet Airways in January but haven’t yet cobbled together bidding groups.

Government to launch Krishi Udan scheme to transport agricultural goods by air

PTI -
Nirmala Sitharaman's budget announced the Krishi UDAN scheme which is aimed at helping farmers' income double by 2022.

Get over airplanes, flying taxis are the future

Dan Murtaugh -
Initial routes might cater to curious tourists & wealthy travellers, but the companies hope to bring down costs enough to make it a mass-market product.

IndiGo operator InterGlobe Aviation reports biggest ever quarterly loss

Anurag Kotoky -
The loss shows that even airlines like IndiGo, which is India's most lucrative domestic carrier, isn't immune. The loss was driven by foreign-exchange losses and a re-assessment of future costs.

Army plans to buy 350 helicopters over 10 years to modernise its Aviation Corps

Amrita Nayak Dutta -
The Aviation Corps currently operates Chetak and Cheetah choppers, the ALH Dhruv since 2001, and its armed variant Rudra since 2013.

Boeing is now in ‘endgame’ of getting 737 Max back in the air, says CEO

Julie Johnsson -
Boeing is fine-tuning a software upgrade for 737 Max’s flight-control computers and preparing for the evaluation of a final version by line pilots.

Boeing underestimated risks of 737 Max during flight tests, says US investigators

Alan Levin -
An oversimplified test was used during the development of 737 Max. The US National Transportation Safety Board now wants Boeing to better certification process.

US regulator believes Boeing 737 Max pilots don’t need fresh simulator training

Alan Levin -
Boeing 737 Max pilots would be required instead to take a computer-based training course they could perform at home or in a classroom.

Air India & Indigo fly without extra fuel for diversions, risky experiment say experts

Ifrah Mufti -
New system allows such flights if destination airport has two or more runways, and if there’s good weather and a 5 km visibility when the plane is an hour away.

Flying cars: automating the skies means playing with our lives

Jonathan Aitken -
Accidents in the air tend to have much more severe consequences than those on tarmac.
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Title scene of Taarak Mehta ka ooltah chashmah.

Dear Taarak Mehta, you were our peak comfort content for 14 years. Now it’s time to retire

Yashika Singla -
Just like the Truman Show, all Taarak Mehta plots somehow feel the same for the past few years. It's fine to accept that ideas can go stale.
The Gyanvapi Mosque and Kashi Vishwanath Temple, Varanasi | Photo: Praveen Jain | ThePrint

Gyanvapi row and Places of Worship Act were born together. Now each wants to end the other

Credit: ThePrint Team

The LIC way or the Air India way — that is the multi-crore disinvestment question

Economy

An attendant refills a two-wheeler with fuel at a petrol pump in New Delhi Saturday | ANI

Under fire for spiraling inflation, Modi govt announces excise duty cut on fuels, LPG subsidy

Shubham Batra -
It has also decided to enhance the fertiliser subsidy for farmers, and reduce import duty on some raw materials. ‘It is always people first for us!’ tweets prime minister.

Defence

File photo of a defence personnel armed with a SiG 716 rifle near the Line of Control | Photo: Snehesh Alex Philip | ThePrint

India to ink ‘repeat order’ deal for 73,000 SiG 716 rifles from the US

Snehesh Alex Philip -
In February 2019, 72,400 SiG 716 rifles of 7.62 x 51mm calibre were contracted from SIG Sauer Inc, USA, under government's 'Buy (Global) category', through fast track procedure.

National Interest

Mandir or Masjid? New surveys not needed, just acceptance of truth & move towards reconciliation

Shekhar Gupta -
That temples were destroyed and mosques built is undisputed history. The past can’t be changed, but we can’t deny the wrongs of the past either before we consider reconciliation.

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