AI has dues of over Rs 822 cr towards VVIP flights: RTI

Air India had stopped the practice of issuing tickets on credit to government agencies for the travel of their officials in December last year because of accruing pending bills. Cash-strapped Air......

Fani to make morning landfall; 11 lakh evacuated

Fani is billed as the most severe cyclonic storm since the super cyclone of 1999 that claimed close to 10,000 lives and left a trail of destruction in vast swathes of the state. IMAGE:......

Last count: 148,707 Indians died in road accidents in 2015

Indian roads are far more unsafe than its railways. A sense of urgency is required to tackle India's embarrassing record on road safety, says Vinayak Chatterjee. IMAGE: The total number of road......

Onion prices, Telangana issue, coal-gate stall Lok Sabha

Three bills were introduced in Lok Sabha on Tuesday amid uproar with members from Left parties trooping into the Well to protest against rising prices of onion while other members raised the......

Canada court orders seizure of Air India, AAI assets over dues

A court in Canada has ordered the seizure of amounts collected by the International Air Transport Association (IATA) on behalf of Air India and the Airports Authority of India (AAI). Separate......

Infrastructure sector gets a boost from Modi govt

Be it roads, railways, ports, civil aviation, energy or electricity, the Narendra Modi govt has invigorated all these sectors since it took over, says Arvind Panagariya. I recently wrote that the......

Barriers in exit routes for firms hurt the economy

India had a transition from 'socialism with a limited entry to marketism without exit'.   Delaying the exits of companies is locking scarce resources and imposing substantial fiscal, economic......

Bureaucratic hurdles dampen investors in India

Inter-ministerial programmes have run into obstacles as rules written by bureaucrats hamper rather than promote investments. Image: GIFT will likely remain a plush architectural model of a smart......