Captain Sharifah Czarena Surainy, Senior First Officer Dk Nadiah Pg Khashiem and Senior First Officer Sariana Nordin flew flight BI081 to the Middle Eastern country on February 23.
President George W Bush spoke to members of the Asia Society at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Washington on February 22, a day before he left for a trip to Southeast Asia.
Buyers from 19 countries participated and showed interest in sourcing from India.
After allowing private Indian carriers to operate to the UK and Southeast Asia, government on Friday permitted Jet Airways to launch operations to New York from the ensuing summer season starting April.
US, India, Australia and Japan have forged an international coalition to coordinate relief and reconstruction efforts in the region, US President George Bush said Wednesday.
Tourist arrival growth down to 1.9% over poor marketing and terror threats. Airlines, too, have been forced to reroute following airspace closure. UK and Australia advised their citizens from travelling to Srinagar following the Pulwama attack.
A Human Rights Watch report says the US abuse of prisoners in Iraq and Afghanistan has given other nations an excuse to torture terror suspects.\n\n
Most of the markets it is now looking at in hopes of gaining the next billion internet users have demographics similar to that of India.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday was a "happy guest" on his maiden visit to Singapore where he had a vegetarian dinner with his counterpart Lee Hsien Loong and his wife at an Indian restaurant in Little India.
'It is clear to me they take the view that we should do what we can to assist them where they would like assistance,' Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage said.
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.
The network has been built by six telcos to handle high bandwidth demands of emerging technologies and applications.
'Who are these people on the streets?' 'They are youth and students who were hoodwinked, bluffed by Modi for the last seven years, with a promise of 2 crore jobs every year.' 'And Mamata sings the same tune.' 'But the youth can see that as long as there is Mamata or Modi, there is no hope.'
International Finance Corporation, the private sector arm of the World Bank Group, will provide a loan of $50 million to Larsen & Toubro, one of India's largest engineering and construction companies.\n\n\n\n
Deepika 3rd; Varun Dhawan, P V Sindhu enter Duff and Phelps brand value list
Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Wednesday.
'We may think that in our border quarrel, the Chinese can give up a bit of territory here or there to satisfy us, but that's not how they see it.' 'Arunachal Pradesh is 90,000 square kilometres and twice the size of Taiwan.' 'The Chinese can't be seen to be asserting their rights to Taiwan and on the other hand, cheaply giving up Arunachal Pradesh.'
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday lauded Singapore's founder and first premier Lee Kuan Yew as a 'global thinker'
India needs a host of low-cost carriers, like in other countries, to enable more people to fly, global consulting firm A T Kearney said on Friday.
'What happened in Godhra was wrong and what happened thereafter was even worse,' Vajpayee told the Indian community there.
Recently, Prime Minister Narendra Modi met over 40 CEOs across broad swathes of industry, ranging from makers of mobile devices, auto components, food products to telecom networking equipment and pharmaceuticals. The agenda: To discuss how to make India an integral part of the global supply chain. The focus of the discussion would be the much touted yet not so well understood production-linked incentive scheme (PLI), the centrepiece of the government's drive to massively boost the manufacturing sector. To do so, the government has created a war chest of over Rs 197,000 crore to be paid out as incentives to over 14 industries in five years. There are three objectives to the scheme, two explicitly stated, one implied.
India had 14 out of the world's 20 most polluted cities, the World Health Organization reveals.
India's sugar exports are expected to cross 1.5 million tonnes in the sugar season that began in October 2002, Food Minister Sharad Yadav said on Wednesday.
The Philippines army battles terrorists backed by Islamic State in the first major military encounter with Islamists in that part of the world.
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