Borschberg is keen on the halt in Varanasi as a spiritual stopover.
How far investors will be convinced by Modi's promise to replace red tape with a "red carpet" remains to be seen.
The airline might find it difficult to fill posts.
DGCA considers this in wake of Malaysian tragedy; no rules to gauge mental state now.
As fitness screening for pilots after the recent Germanwings crash come under scanner, mid-term psychometric tests for pilots of Indian air carriers are being mulled by the government to detect any cockpit crew who are too mentally ill to fly.
Sources indicated defence and national security initiatives.
SpiceJet has cut costs to turnaround the carrier in a year's time.
Stories about Pok-trouble at the office have gone viral, but many say the game can also facilitate bonding among employees.
Slated to be in India on December 8, Carter would travel to Japan, Bahrain, Israel, Italy and Great Britain before returning to the US on December 16. This is for the first time that an outgoing American Defence Secretary has included India in his itinerary for the final overseas trip.
There could be rejig at top level at SpiceJet.
The Obama administration sees India not only as a land of huge potential for expanded business and trade but also as a strategic partner in the face of an increasingly assertive China, whose leader visited Modi in India last week.
'She preserved national unity against great odds.'
Asian and Middle Eastern airlines -- but no Indian names -- dominated the Top 10 slots at the World Airline Awards.
Altigreen's hybrid engine will help make cars more fuel efficient and the air we breathe cleaner.
The 30-share Sensex ended down 339 points at 28,119 and the 50-share Nifty closed 100 points lower at 8,438.
Recognising the threat posed by outfits like the Al Qaeda, Lashkar-e-Tayiba and the Dawood Ibrahim network, India and the United States have agreed to deepen cooperation in fighting terrorism and asked Pakistan to bring to justice the 2008 Mumbai attack perpetrators.
SAAB's Sea Gripen constitutes a new option as the INS Vikrant's light fighter
The AirAsia aircraft that went missing after taking off from Indonesia with 162 people on board may be at the bottom of the sea, a top Indonesian official said on Monday, as the multinational search for the Airbus continued amid fading hopes of finding any survivors.
'By the time he came out after nearly five hours, he had a one-to-one conversation with the President, a delegation-level meeting, a reception, a dinner, a tour of the White House and a joint statement of a kind none of his predecessors ever had,' says Ambassador T P Sreenivasan.
Many app makers have stopped work on their projects or abandoned them, mostly because of the lack of customers or limitations of the device.
Even as three Rafale fighters line up in Bengaluru for eye-popping aerobatics displays at the Aero India 2015 exhibition this week, senior ministry of defence sources say the proposal to buy the French fighter is "effectively dead".
'We have a common way of looking at the world, a common way of thinking, and a common set of values that predispose us to be partners. And our interests overlap greatly,' Dr Ashton B Carter, America's next defence secretary, told Aziz Haniffa/Rediff.com in an exclusive interview.
The two governments have already set a target of increasing bilateral trade in goods and services to $500 billion.
As his personal wealth started booming, Mallya went on a buying spree.
Surging value of dollar may be posing the biggest threat to US corporate earnings.
Rajya Sabha MP Rajeev Chandrasekhar is underwriting the revival of a vintage Dakota as a gift to the Indian Air Force.
Here are the world's most courteous, friendly, helpful and efficient airline crews from each continent.
Falling jet fuel prices and a revival in domestic traffic growth offer the new CMD a once in a lifetime opportunity.
But the Abu Dhabi-based airline would first bolster its own network with traffic from India before Jet's turnaround.
'As a society, we are very intolerant to failures which is contrary to entrepreneurship because all entrepreneurs will not succeed.'
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