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The three tests for India’s corporate boards in 2026: Geopolitics, AI and family feuds

From airline crises to family feuds, boardroom turbulence highlights the pressing need for proactive governance and strategic oversight.

Family feast turns IndiGo flight into ‘makeshift cafeteria’—theplas, dhoklas and a plastic bag

In a video, around 15 people can be seen unpacking homemade snacks, serving them across different rows, and occupying the narrow aeroplane aisle.

It’s not IndiGo’s week. Users face trouble in bookings, web check-ins as website crashes again

Less than a month into taking the helm, IndiGo’s new chief Wille Walsh faces instant turbulence as back-to-back server crashes paralyse online bookings.

IndiGo employee quits after ‘humiliation’ at work. All because he didn’t wear a tie

Mohammad Jamshid posted a video outlining his alleged experience. IndiGo rejected the allegations as baseless and unsubstantiated.

First Air India, now IndiGo—Indian airlines are cutting back on services for cheaper tickets

The launch of IndiGo Lite comes two weeks after Air India introduced its own Basic fare, which excludes the complimentary meal. It signals a broader shift in India's aviation market.

IndiGo records unexpected Rs 25 bn quarterly loss amid West Asia conflict

Asia’s largest low-cost carrier is entering a period when its scale no longer guarantees insulation from volatility.

Air India, IndiGo scale down flight schedule for June, July as aviation sector losses mount

Signalling industry-wide slowdown, DGCA had said that airlines would operate just over 23,000 weekly domestic flights during the summer schedule starting 29 March.

Crematoriums to universities, South Asia reels amid a war fought far away. And a BRICS reality check

Global media also reports on what lies ahead for IndiGo after Pieter Elbers’ exit, how Sunrisers' signing of Pakistan spinner Abrar Ahmed sparked a row & AI's impact on the IT industry.

IndiGo CEO Pieter Elbers resigns, three months after a major operational crisis hit airline

Nearly 4,500 IndiGo flights were cancelled during the operational crisis, according to the findings of a Directorate General of Civil Aviation investigation.

IndiGo Delhi-Manchester flight forced to turn back midway after ‘confusion’ over Eritrean airspace

New Delhi: An IndiGo flight from Delhi to Manchester became a 14-hour ordeal for passengers after it returned to its origin airport, having flown...

On Camera

The 1891 census counted India—but struggled to understand it

The 1891 census was built upon foundations laid a decade earlier by the 1881 census. Its success can be attributed to a longer, more meticulous preparation period than its predecessor.

India’s new kings & queens are flourishing in small towns

As the middle class that powered India’s first 3 decades of liberalisation stagnates, and a newly ascendant business class powers ahead, the complexion of consumption & investment is likely to change. 

Trump admin ‘withholding’ approval for Europe-funded Patriot missiles for Ukraine—WaPo report

The weapons are being purchased through NATO’s PURL framework, which allows European allies to fund the purchase of American military supplies for Ukraine.

India needs more Jamnagars. Anti-business, knee-jerk anti-Americanism hurt national interest

Anti-Americanism is chronic, deep-rooted and instinctive in India. We only undermine our national interest by not shedding it, and by dismissing our entrepreneurs as exploiters.