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The incident took place on August 30 when Air India flight AI 102 was on its way to New Delhi from New York.
Sources close to the development told Business Standard the company was exploring different ways to save on its employee costs and had laid off a few employees on "performance" grounds. "We will see a similar development for the next few months. "The company is fine-tuning its hiring policies and implement rigourous measures to look into employee performance," a source said.
The size of Reserve Bank's balance sheet increased by 11.08 per cent to Rs 70.47 lakh crore as on March 2024, leading to the highest-ever dividend payout to the government, according to the central bank's annual report. In actual terms, the increase was Rs 7,02,946.97 crore over Rs 63.45 lakh crore as on March 2023.
A technical problem with an Air India Dreamliner from Kolkata led to an overnight ordeal for around 130 passengers who reached New Delhi after a 13 hour delay.
...and say bye to the humanities-science divide, says Ajit Balakrishnan.
Air India airhostess Komal Singh on Monday moved the National Commission for Women in the case of her alleged molestation and assault by two pilots on board a flight from Sharjah to New Delhi.
Terming the incident unfortunate, the national carrier Air India has tendered an apology to the Indian table tennis team, who were denied boarding on the Delhi-Melbourne flight on Sunday.
Madhabi Puri Buch, the first female chairperson of Sebi, doesn't plan to rest on her laurels in her third and final year in office and has set out an ambitious goal, such as moving towards a same-day and instantaneous settlement cycle for the secondary market.
The announcement by Air India CMD Rohit Nandan came on a day when two of the airline's six Dreamliners resumed commercial operations and operated regular flights from Delhi to Bengaluru and Kolkata.
Among the impacted flights, Air India's flight AI 185 from the national capital to Vancouver that was to depart early in the morning was rescheduled.
The airline filed a police complaint against the woman, who was travelling in business class.
A total of 1,045 Indians returned home in three batches from strife-torn Libya on Wednesday by Air India special flights.
Indian companies seem to be trailing behind. They will have to catch up by reskilling the workforce and ramping up investments.
Cash-starved Air India (AI) on Tuesday said it will be following the industry practice on in-flight catering services on all short-haul economy class flights from Wednesday, which will see the national carrier offering only pre-packed snacks and not full meals as done earlier.
Flight operations at Srinagar Airport were on Monday suspended after an Air India plane from Jammu with 149 passengers on board suffered a tyre burst.
An Air India flight from Bhopal to Mumbai, carrying 90 passengers on board, had to make an emergency landing minutes after its take-off from Raja Bhoj Airport in Bhopal on Wednesday morning after a bird hit one of its engines, officials said.
The aircraft returned and landed safely with a damaged engine as full emergency procedures were put in place.
An Air India Silchar-Guwahati plane with 52 people on board landed under emergency conditions at the Lokopriyo Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport in Guwahati on Sunday after it lost one of its front wheels during take off.
Catamaran, the family office of Infosys founder Narayana Murthy, is targeting 15 per cent returns on its portfolio investments per annum as it shifts focus from early-stage investments to growth and late-stage bets. This would double the firm's assets under management (AUM) from the current $1 billion to $2 billion over the next five years. "For direct investments, we are focusing on growth-stage investments and very selectively on early stage," Deepak Padaki, president, Catamaran, told Business Standard. "(This is) primarily because the early-stage space in India, in the last three-four years, has completely changed. "There has been a huge influx of capital in the last two years. It has become a very crowded space for early-stage investment," he said.
Income-tax payers fear they will receive notices from the government because the annual information statement (AIS) provided by the I-T department in many cases is showing incomes in excess of their earnings. The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) has dismissed these fears as unfounded. The deadline for filing income-tax returns (ITRs) for the assessment year 2022-23 ended on July 31.
Air India's former executive director Jitender Bhargava feels the airline should oppose the Tata-Singapore Airline plan to set up a hub in Delhi.
The total cost will include expenses related to crew, fuel, navigation, landing and parking charges.
A New Delhi-bound Air India airplane made an emergency landing at Nawabshah Airport in southern Sindh on Monday after developing a technical problem with its hydraulic system. All 122 passengers and crew members on board the plane are safe.
An engine of a Riyadh-bound Air India plane with 229 people on board caught fire on Friday while taxiing at the Mumbai airport, forcing it to abort take-off and evacuation of passengers through emergency exit chutes.
The windshield of Air India Dreamliner which developed a crack while landing at the airport in Melbourne is expected to return Delhi tonight after being repaired, officials said.
Soon after AI-888 took off from Mumbai at 7:00 pm, the Air India call centre there received a phone call from an anonymous person saying the aircraft was carrying a baggage, which had a bomb.
Technical trouble grounded an Air India plane and forced another to make a priority landing in New Delhi on Wednesday, prompting a pilots' union to warn that its members would henceforth operate only a completely snag-free aircraft.
On every Air India ticket booked by agents, the airline pays 3 per cent of the ticket cost as commission. The airlines earns around Rs 10,000 crore (Rs 100 billion) a year from ticket bookings.
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Rhe unruly passenger was handed over to the security personnel after landing at the Delhi airport.
The aggrieved lady had "rescinded" an initial request for action after the two "appeared" to have sorted out the issue.
A four-member Delhi police team on Friday afternoon landed in Mumbai in search of the man, who had allegedly urinated on his female co-passenger on an Air India (AI) flight on November 26 last year, but found his home here locked, an official said.
Transactions were allegedly not reported correctly in the tax returns for FY20.
In a bid to promote Make In India defence systems, the Indian Navy will hold its senior commanders' conference on board the aircraft carrier INS Vikrant in the Arabian Sea, off the coast of Goa.
'Brigitte Henriques calls on all members of the sports movement to remain mobilised on the essential and paramount objective: the full success of the Paris Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2024.'
The hydraulic system of plane AI-634, which was heading for Indore on Wednesday, developed some problem because of which it had to be brought back to Bhopal airport soon after its departure at 2030 hours.
"As Civil Aviation minister, I apologise to all those affected (by these incidents)," Ashok Gajapathi Raju told a press conference in New Delhi on Thursday evening, in an attempt to end the controversy.
Flight AI173 from Delhi was diverted to Magadan in Russia on Tuesday owing to an engine glitch, the Tata Group-owned private carrier said in a statement.
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