Having lost their case in the Bombay High Court (HC) against deregistration of their union, Jet Airways pilots plan to go to an industrial tribunal.
Seats being offered by LCCs in international routes up from 3% of the total last year to 10%.
Full-service carriers remain unfazed by the introduction of the business class segment by budget airlines.
Both the governments and school authorities in Delhi and Uttar Pradesh are in a fix over the implementation of the Right to Education Act--that came into effect from April 1 --for children in the age group of six to 14.
An ATC officer's job requires 100 per cent concentration and a break after every one-and-a-half hours.
Low-cost air carrier SpiceJet is looking at ways to raise around $75 million (Rs 335 crore). The airline has given the mandate to IDFC-SSKI for raising funds through preferential allotment of shares and strategic sale. "IDFC-SSKI is working on it and the money will be raised through both preferential allotment of shares and strategic sale," said a Mumbai-based investment banker, who is associated in this deal.
Based on visits by its correspondents to schools in six states of the country, Business Standard brings you a six-part series on how ready or otherwise the system is to implement the new legal guarantee of free and compulsory schooling for all in the 6-14 age group.
A rural women's university is pioneering an effort to teach microfinance through practical lessons in the villages of Sonepat.
To add aircraft, more services this year, even as full-service airlines hold their expansion plans.
The Dantewada bloodbath of Central Reserve Police Force jawans has shocked civil society. Most feel a dialogue between the government and non-governmental organisations could have reaped better results than the violent route the government has pursued against the Naxalites.
The move to disinvest the public sector Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd has united all central trade unions once again and they have called an indefinite agitation from April 19 against the move.
Sun TV promoter Kalanithi Maran, through his advisors, is talking to hedge fund Wilbur L Ross to buy its entire 30 per cent stake in low-cost carrier SpiceJet Ltd.
The time taken in land acquisition has been drastically brought down to 12 months from 24 months earlier.
National Aviation Company Ltd (Nacil), the entity formed by the merger of Air India and Indian Airlines, has failed to keep up to its promise -- it is yet to provide equal access to a large part of the 30,000 employees under its fold.
As a pre-requisite, the airline has taken the first step by appointing four independent directors to the state-owned company's expanded 13-member board. Stock exchange listing requirements mandate that one-third of a company's board must consist of independent directors.
The Tamil Nadu development formula makes programmes like the NREGS work through simple but top-down solutions.
The move, if accepted, will help resolve nearly one-third of the 1,200 cases on payments pending in various courts in the country.
The Airports Authority of India plans to privatise 15 out of 40 non-operational airports across the country on a public-private partnership basis to make them function again."Out of 40 non-operational airports, 15 have the potential to operate and we have planned to give the airports to private developers to operate it for a concession period," said a top AAI official, who did not wish to be identified.
After stiff resistance from its employees against a steep pay cut, National Aviation Company of India Ltd), which runs Air India, has come out with a fresh proposal to impose a 15-17 per cent cut on the total salary package.The total package includes basic salary, dearness allowance, house rent allowance and payments made under the productivity-linked incentive scheme . The cut, however, would not be applicable on 4000 employees.
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