Maharashtra Cabinet changes norms to make present occupiers of slums eligible for rehabilitation.
The 3,000-odd cabin crew of Jet Airways cabin has been asked to take a day's leave without pay each month as a cost-saving exercise.
The no-frills brand is poised for a big leap by debuting in some international routes as well.
The Air India management has reached an agreement with pilots from the erstwhile Indian Airlines on the contentious issue of pay parity. Fearing another agitation from the Indian Commercial Pilots Association (ICPA), the airline's management has agreed to the union's demands for fixed allowances each month.
Petroleum secretary G C Chaturvedi said the arbitration notice grants a time of up to a month to respond and there was no hurry.
The government-owned airline has 63 narrow body planes from Airbus, including the A319 and A321.
The consumption of petroleum products in India is growing at a rate much lower than the conservative projection of 4.58 per cent made for this year by the Petroleum Products Planning and Analysis Cell (PPAC), a wing of the petroleum ministry.
Kingfisher Airlines is exploring hiving off its engineering department into a separate maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) unit. This is one of several measures being considered by the airline management to tide over its current financial crisis.
His debt woes may continue and losses double, but the King of Good Times was clearly in a defiant mood at a press meet in a packed venue in a suburban hotel in Mumbai on Tuesday.
Seeks deferred payments for domestic purchases, dollar window.
The negotiations will be held in Mumbai on Tueday at the International Civil Aviation Negotiations Conference which will be inaugurated by President Pratibha Patil.
AI Express operates 195 weekly flights, mostly from Kerala.
Low-cost carriers (LCCs) like Air Asia and Ryan Air are among the best because they are frugal, have flexibility in operations and certain standardisation of aircraft and operations.
Days after a Rs 3 per litre rise in petrol prices, it is the turn of compressed natural gas. Indraprastha Gas (IGL), monopoly marketer of CNG in and around this metropolis, is looking at raising the price by up to six or seven per cent (Rs 2 per kg) sometime next week, due to higher cost on account of a weakening rupee.
With the government preparing to restrict the number of subsidised cooking cylinders, oil marketing companies have launched a 'transparency' portal that allows customers to keep an eye on the number of cylinders sold in their account by the dealer.
Following decontrol of its price, the consumption of petrol is rising at a much slower rate than used to be the case.
Jet Airways is pushing web sales to increase its revenue and cut distribution costs. The airline is selling 100,000 seats at a discount to drive this strategy.
The sale of branded petrol and diesel, considered to be more efficient, has dipped by 27 and 50 per cent, respectively, in 2010-11 over the previous year (see chart), despite OMCs selling the products at a thin margin of less than a rupee.
Helicopter operations were shifted to Juhu in January after Mumbai airport authorities banned chopper movements.
The sugar industry is gearing up to offer the entire quantity for the tenders, which will close on September 2.
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