Friday will be the first day of the second phase of the odd-even scheme in New Delhi.
Some have welcomed this shift in the government's stance.
Delhi will become the first such city in India to have such a scheme and the only one after Beijing in Asia.
Faced with a 10 to 15 per cent fall in passenger traffic, business class travel is coming down to earth. For the first time, Jet Airways and Paramount are introducing apex (advance purchase) fares and Kingfisher and state-owned Air India are offering free travel for spouses to boost bookings for this premium service.
In the India-US sector, for instance, Air India operates 15 stopover flights between Mumbai and Chicago, and Mumbai and New York
'The new trains should be fast, but the roll-out of the privatisation plan should be slow and well-considered,' recommends T N Ninan.
The prime minister thanked the people but said it was the start of a long battle, as he urged them to follow social distancing to stop the chain of transmission of Coronavirus which has infected 360 people and claimed seven lives in India.
The intellectual vacuum that the government is often accused of is more than evident in the policy draft.
However, passenger traffic between the two sectors would be served via Jet Airways' London Gateway in co-operation with partner airlines, Jet Airways said. Jet Airways has already announced a code share partnership with United Airlines with convenient connections between Mumbai and several US points via London in both directions, the company said.
The air quality in Delhi is turning worse, Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia said.
The plane crashed into the airport boundary wall and landed in a sewage treatment plant while returning back due to apparent technical problem.
A bench of Justices Arun Mishra and Deepak Gupta also directed the Delhi government and the Central Pollution Control Board to place before it the data of pollution in Delhi from October till November 14 this year. The bench also directed them to submit pollution data from October 1 to December 31, 2018.
The India Army has treated 53,082 flood victims in Jammu and Kashmir, where 80 medical teams of the Armed Forces Medical Services are already operating in full swing.
Aeroflot will resume services from Moscow to Mumbai five times a week with effect from January 24 with TU 214 aircraft.
The US president's four-day tour will feature talks with British PM Theresa May, tea with the Queen, and mass protests including a giant Trump baby blimp being flown over Westminster.
As 32 states and Union Territories imposed complete lockdown till March 31, the Centre asked them to clamp curfew wherever necessary in the wake of people defying lockdown orders.
'It could rain about 200 mm in short span of time.'
The joint secretary also said a high-level task force to work on frontiers of science related to vaccines and drug testing was formed on Sunday.
A 12-hour Assam bandh called on Friday by the BJP, to protest the introduction of a Constitutional Amendment Bill to facilitate swapping of land enclaves with Bangladesh, evoked mixed response.
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The Taliban is highly pragmatic and would regard it wasteful to resume military offensive to capture Panjshir. The Taliban's preference, historically, has been to keep the military option as the last resort, explains Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar
'My brave JCO managed to get to the gun, sit on top of the dead man and fired away at the attacking aircraft till they melted away into the darkness.'
IndiGo clearly needs to refresh its HR and training manual, says Shyamal Majumdar.
Khan, 37, was injured in the terror attack and later flown to Delhi in an air ambulance for specialised treatment. However, he succumbed to injuries at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences.
The bus, which way on its way to Kishtwar from Keshwan, skidded off the road at Sirgwari and rolled down into the gorge around 7:30 am.
Vistara has accelerated fleet expansion plan from June 2018 to earlier, open to talks with Boeing as well.
These bikes are a good mixture of style, mileage, performance and affordability, says Rajesh Alva.
'Other countries go out on a limb to save even a single life.' 'What to talk of civilian accidents and disasters, even our military does not have a priority for Combat Search and Rescue,' says Group Captain P I Muralidharan (retd).
Long-haul low-cost carriers like Scoot and AirAsia X offer a similar configuration.
Firms are offering employees flexi hours; demand for air purifiers, masks have skyrocketed.
'The Punjab police was taking the prime minister by road for 100 km for the first time, maybe in the last many years.' 'But the SPG keeps travelling with the prime minister every second-third day outside Delhi.' 'They are better aware of the drill; they understand the PM's security parameters better than the Punjab police.' 'They could have refused even if the clearance was given by the Punjab police.'
The complaint was lodged by Mumbai-based Express Industry Council of India, which represented major express courier and cargo companies such as DTDC, Aramex India, Blue Dart, DHL Express, GATI and First Flight.
Vistara Chief Executive Officer Phee Teik Yeoh is expected to meet the senior management of BA over the next few days to discuss the partnership.
Kardassis, who quit the airline in 2013, will advise Goyal and senior management on cost-saving and productivity improvement
The gold, weighing over 30 kg, was seized from the "diplomatic baggage" that had landed by air cargo at the Thiruvananthapuram international airport recently from the Gulf.
Clashes broke out at multiple places and Delhi's borders resembled a virtual battle zone with restless crowds of farmers, mostly from Punjab and Haryana, milling around and a sea of police personnel keeping them at bay.
But its sales pitch will remain muted till India opens up more seats on the route
The no-frills carrier was launched in 2009. It began India operations a year later.
The highway was closed on Saturday due to heavy snowfall and landslides.
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