Several fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) companies have said that they would pass on the full benefit of goods and services tax (GST) rate cuts to consumers starting September 22. Dairy major Mother Dairy, on Tuesday, announced rate cuts in products spanning its portfolio-- from milkshakes to paneer and jams to frozen products under its Safal brand.
India captain Rohit Sharma said the 184-run drubbing at the hands of Australia in the fourth Test in Melbourne is 'mentally disturbing'.
No-frill carrier Kingfisher Airlines on Monday signed a contract for buying five Airbus A 340-500 long-haul aircraft and an option to acquire five more, with plans to operate direct flights to the US.
Weighed down by rising crude prices, Vijay Mallya-promoted Kingfisher Airlines is in negotiations with international carriers to sell two of the five A340-500 aircraft it had committed to buy from Airbus last year. The airline may also defer taking deliveries of 29 narrow-bodied A320s, airline sources said.
The Nicaragua bound charter Legend Airlines Airbus A340 flight, that was grounded at Vatry airport in France for four days on suspicion of human trafficking, arrived in Mumbai on Tuesday, December 26, 2023.
A plane carrying more than 300 passengers, mostly Indians, is expected to land at Mumbai airport early on Tuesday, three days after it was detained by French authorities over suspected human trafficking, a source said.
French authorities launched a judicial investigation into the conditions and purpose of the trip, with a unit specialising in organised crime investigating suspected human trafficking.
The Indian embassy in France has reached and obtained consular access.
He said most of the passengers on the chartered plane that returned from France were from districts of Banaskantha, Patan, Mehsana and Anand.
Four French judges earlier in the day began questioning the passengers detained by the French authorities at Vatry airport, 150 km east of Paris, since Thursday over suspected "human trafficking".
According to a senior state Crime Investigation Department official, those passengers included at least 60 from Gujarat, who have already reached their respective native places in the state.
More than 60 people from Gujarat on board the Nicaragua-bound plane, which was sent back from France over suspected human trafficking, had agreed to pay Rs 60 lakh to Rs 80 lakh to immigration agents, who promised to cross into the US illegally after reaching the Latin American country, officials said.
A Romanian aircraft carrying 275 passengers, mostly Indians, on Monday left for India four days after they were detained by the French authorities at an airport near Paris over suspected 'human trafficking'.
The plane that took off from Dubai in the United Arab Emirates carrying 303 Indian passengers, including many minors, was grounded at the Chalons-Vatry airport in Marne on Thursday.
In the latest Doing Business report of the World Bank, India's position jumped 30 places to rank 100th among 190 nations.
The Naresh Goyal-promoted airline, which is beginning flights to London from May 23, will launch its flights to Newark via Brussels a month later, chief executive officer Wolfgang Prock-Schauer told reporters in Mumbai.
Mario Balotelli is reportedly taking Manchester City to a Premier League tribunal to overturn a 340,000 club fine.
Airbus Industrie is setting its eye on India for selling its brand new, most modern and spacious A-380 aircraft.
Top-order colleagues Jonathan Trott and Kevin Pietersen shared an unbeaten 63-run stand for the third wicket to keep alive England's faint winning chance in the first cricket Test against Sri Lanka on Wednesday. Chasing a 340-run victory target, England finished the third day on 111 for two wickets, still 229 runs behind what could be a record successful chase in Galle.
There is no denying that the India-US sector is one of the hottest routes for airlines both from India and the United States
State-run Oil and Natural Gas Corporation on Monday said it has resolved differences with Cairn India Ltd for building a $340-million pipeline to take crude oil found in Barmer district of Rajasthan to Gujarat.
After Singapore Airlines and Emirates, German carrier Lufthansa on Saturday launched daily services of its super jumbo Airbus A-380s between Delhi and Frankfurt.
'Flights have now begun to operate and clearing of the huge backlog of flights of domestic and international airlines should pose no problems, if the visibility continues and there is no further rain,' an airport official said.
Jet Airways, the largest privately owned airline in India, is set to continue its global expansion with the commencement of direct flights from London to Mumbai on May 23
Indian Airlines has floated tenders to lease 12 wide-bodied aircraft to launch new foreign operations, while its subsidiary Alliance Air would lease two business jets for operations of oil major ONGC.
Private sector airline Jet Airways will give its A340-300E aircraft on short-term wet lease to Air-India to operate a daily flight between Mumbai and London.
Jet Airways has executed a memorandum of understanding/letter of intent for taking five planes on lease.
Jet Airways is planning to introduce six flights a week from Mumbai to Newark in the United States from mid-June and aims to step up its daily flights to 21 services a week from India to Singapore in its winter schedule.
Air Sahara on Thursday announced that it would launch its international operations between April and July and change its colour to orange, white, green and blue from Friday.
Jet Airways, India's top private carrier, says it is in talks to lease two or three wide-bodied aircraft from Boeing or Airbus for its long-haul international routes starting in April.
HCL Technologies on Monday announced it has bagged a mandate from French aircraft maker Airbus for development of sophisticated embedded software.
Air-India board to mull craft purchase on Jan 24
Montreal-based Air Canada is to resume flights to India with a daily non-stop service between Toronto and New Delhi effective October 27.
Air-India Ltd's board will discuss on April 3 whether the state-run long-haul carrier should place orders for 17 long-range aircraft from Boeing or Airbus, a spokesman for the airline said on Wednesday.
Rains made the job more challenging as it was making the ground soft, the AIESL CEO said.
The airline will utilise new Airbus A320s, scheduled for delivery this year, to accommodate much of the increased frequencies.
AirAsia's rival airlines in India have kept themselves super-busy in the past few months -- by moving court against the former's launch, adding flights on the routes where AirAsia is operating, and engaging in a price war.
New England skipper Joe Root was taken aback by the 'unfair' criticism made by Michael Vaughan of his side's performance.
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