With around 85,000 road accident deaths every year, the ministry for road transport and highways is considering a proposal to set up a Commissionerate for Safety.
Indus Air, a regional airline, has suspended operations from last week, just three months after its commercial launch.
Sources said the DGCA is reviewing tests by the US-based Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and European Air Safety Agency (EASA) on mobile phone usage on board aircraft.
Road ministry proposes an amendment to Motor Vehicles Act.
Limited capacity addition this year despite burgeoning growth in international travel, easier visa norms for Europe and the US and huge cancellation charges have all led to an unprecedented seat shortage and an increase in ticket prices.
Slower fleet expansion, fewer new flights could end cheap travel option.
Come mid-April, India's largest private airline, Jet Airways, will don a fresh look. The Naresh Goyal-promoted airline will have fresh internal and external livery for aircraft to reflect its new corporate image.
Railways initiate project for ad revenues of Rs 4,000 cr.
Sources said the company had already applied for a licence to produce defence products.
For the first time in its history, state-run carrier Air-India will sell its six Airbus A310-300 aircraft to a European bank and lease them back to its fleet for operations, in a sale-and-lease back deal.
Thanks to the entry of global giants into the retail space and a resurgence in manufacturing, the international logistics majors are now busy in acquiring middle level Indian logistics companies to have their presence in the country.
The Railway Board issued a notification a few months ago under which divisional regional managers of certain zones were given financial powers to levy a surcharge from passengers who insist on seeking reservation for lower berths.
Bartending is an art that also pays very well. A bar tender on an average earns anywhere between Rs 500,000 to Rs 900,000 in India.
A consultant is being appointed to work out the details of the project.
French aerospace and defence major Safran may team up with the state-run Defence Research and Development Organisation for indigenously developing an unmanned aerial vehicle project at a cost of over $1 billion.
The railways in India may be in the middle of a financial turnaround but China's railway system is still far ahead on most key parameters.
For harried passengers flying peak hours from metros, no respite from delayed flights and landings is in sight.
Air-India, which had placed a $7.2 billion order for 68 Boeing planes, has set up an internal committee to consider new aircraft acquisitions.
Even as the government is aiming at creating an airline behemoth to take on Asian tigers such as Singapore Airlines and Thai Airways, the merged Air-India and Indian Airlines entity will not dominate even the Indian skies.
The US-based home delivery and logistics company Specialised Transportation Inc is entering into Indian market by entering into a strategic alliance with Patel Retail, a subsidiary of Patel Integrated Logistics.
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