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Meet Gopi Thotakura, India's 1st space tourist

Gopi Thotakura, an entrepreneur and a pilot, is set to become the first Indian to venture into space as a tourist on Amazon founder Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin's NS-25 mission. IMAGE: Gopi Thotakura.......

LS polls: Private jets, helicopter demand to see 40% jump

As political parties prepare to fight it out in the Lok Sabha polls, the demand for chartered planes and helicopters is expected to jump by up to 40 percent as compared to the previous general......

Titanic tourist submersible carrying 5 goes missing

Hamish Harding, a British businessman who collaborated with the Indian government to reintroduce eight wild cheetahs from Namibia to India, is among five people who went missing in the Atlantic......

Salute India's Greatest Sailor!

Retired from the Indian Navy, his passage in the Golden Globe Race wasn't easy. Although he kept himself in the basket of race leaders, the position revealed little of what he was actually......

'Who knows, the war would have taken a different turn, maybe!'

'The simultaneous fire from so many guns rained down on the enemy and pulverised them, a sight I can never forget till my last breath.' IMAGE: Lieutenant General Narayan Chatterjee (retd) at the......

'Investing is a loser's game'

'In investing, you have to first make sure you don't make big mistakes.''I would advise small investors to be systematic, don't be arbitrary; don't be on either end of the risk spectrum.''Don't go......

With Air India, Tatas get a stake in Kerala's Cochin airport

As the Tata group inches closer to taking over Air India in January 2022, the $242-billion conglomerate will also inherit a stake in Kerala’s Cochin airport. The Tatas would become the only......

How the Rich fuel Demand for Private Jets

'The need for added safety has bolstered demand for charter flights in the last year and is expected to continue.'Sindhu Bhattacharya reports. Kindly note the image has only been posted for......

Cockpit, cabin crew suffer as fresh Covid wave hits air travel

Aviation jobs were scarce even before the Covid-19 pandemic arrived on Indian shores in early 2020. The situation has been exacerbated since. Tejas Dodia, a senior cabin crew member with Jet......

Airspace stimulus to save over Rs 1,000-crore in jet fuel costs

Aviation turbine fuel accounts for 35-40 per cent of the total operating cost of an Indian airline. The move to open up air space, which was earlier reserved for the Indian Air Force (IAF), to......

Runway 34 Review

Runway 34 is a clumsy cocktail of Hollywood movies spiked with the Bollywood brand of God complex, sighs Sukanya Verma. It's a spooky, stormy, sky. A plane full of passengers is moments away from......

Oscars 2016: Meet the Best Actor Nominees. PREDICT the winner!

Watch the trailers and predict the winner at the end. I feel weird commenting on the Best Actor race this year since I've watched all the nominated performances except that of the frontrunner, and......

Will Leonardo DiCaprio break his Oscar jinx?

Leonardo DiCaprio has been nominated for four times in the Best Actor category at the Oscars but has never won it. Will he finally win it this year? It’s that time of the year again, and......

UEFA moves Champions League final from Russia to Paris

IMAGE: The Champions League final was set to be staged at Zenit St Petersburg's stadium on May 28. Photograph: David Ramos/Getty Images UEFA has moved this year's Champions League final from St......

Medvedev makes winning start; Nadal sails through

IMAGE: Serbia's Novak Djokovic celebrates winning his second round match against Russia's Karen Khachanov. Photograph: Suhaib Salem/Reuters World number one Novak Djokovic impressed again at......

Djokovic back with a bang!

IMAGE: Novak Djokovic celebrates winning his first round match against Italy's Lorenzo Musetti during day eight of the Dubai Duty Free Tennis. Photograph: Suhaib Salem/Reuters World number one......

'Shooter Dadi' Chandro Tomar dies due to COVID-19

IMAGE: Chandro Tomar, nicknamed 'Shooter Dadi', died on Friday after battling COVID-19. Photograph: Kind courtesy Chandro Tomar/Instagram Octogenarian shooter Chandro Tomar, who became the oldest......

Soon...Brazil to resume soccer matches

IMAGE: Brazilian club Gremio players wearing masks before the match. Photograph: Diego Vara/Reuters Brazil's government is working on a plan to gradually reopen economic activity that has......

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