Bharti Airtel, the country's largest mobile operator, has already joined the global Seamless Alliance to provide in-flight connectivity.
Together with Jet Airways we will have 61 flights to Amsterdam and Paris during the winter season. That also makes us the second largest airline group after Lufthansa, which has 67 weekly flights, and we are catching up to become the first, says KLM CEO Pieter Elbers.
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In the midst of huge job losses as a fallout of the coronavirus pandemic, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami has signed 17 MoUs for an investment of Rs 15,100 crores that aim to provide 47,100 jobs. But a clearer picture on where the projects stand will emerge only after the Covid-19 induced fear psychosis ends, to see if popular protests will derail them like they have done so many others, says N Sathiya Moorthy.
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In an apparent case of murder-suicide, a Malayali woman and her two children were found dead in the family's home in Delta Township, west of Lansing, Michigan.The dead victims were identified as Brigeethamma Shajimon, 40, Alwin Shajimon Thomas, 10, and Alfred Shajimon Thomas, 5, by the Eaton County Sheriff's Office.Brigeethamma's husband Shajimon Thomas called the police on Monday evening. He told the police that he had found the bodies in his home at Plum Tree Apartments.
Despite falling level in rivers, including Mahanadi, surging waters from over 100 breaches continued to submerge fresh areas in coastal Orissa where seven naval teams intensified relief work today to reach about 40 lakh people hit by floods which claimed at least 37 lives.
Last year, Jet Airways and Air France-KLM signed an enhanced cooperation agreement' for the development of their operations between Europe and India
At least 13 people were killed on Tuesday and over a hundred injured when a powerful car bomb ripped through a police headquarters, an attack blamed on the Muslim Brotherhood aimed at derailing Egypt's democratic transition.
A team of Spanish researchers have found that Delta9 tetrahydrocannabinol or THC, the main active component of marijuana, induces death of various human brain cancer cell lines and primary cultured human brain cancer cells by a process known as autophagy.
An intense winter storm has caused electricity outages for tens of thousands of Americans. Some 65,000 homes and businesses along the US east coast are without power. The storm is the product of a rapid and rare drop in barometric pressure known as bombogenesis, or bomb cyclone. Heavy snow has pounded the east coast from Maine as far south as North Carolina, taking out power lines, icing over roads and closing hundreds of schools.
The flood situation in Orissa worsened on Thursday after 43 new breaches on embankments in the Mahanadi delta region submerged more areas even as the deluge claimed 48 lives so far.
As gushing water from breaches in Orissa's Mahanadi delta engulfed fresh areas, more naval and paramilitary men on Tuesday joined relief work for the marooned people in the flood, which has affected 38 lakh people and claimed at least 31 lives.Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil arrived in Bhubaneswar on Tuesday on a day's visit to make an aerial survey and assess the damage.
Modi assured to extend all required assistance to the state to face the situation, the Chief Minister's office said.
"We are apprehending a major flood in the Mahanadi system as a huge volume of water is heading downstream," Chief Secretary Ajit Kumar Tripathy told reporters in Bhubhaneshwar.
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GIHL had won a 10-year concession for the 1.3 million tonne Ajaokuta Steel and Nigerian Iron Ore Mining in 2005, after acquiring control of Delta Steel in 2004. However, Global Steel Holdings (formerly GIHL) in a statement today said GSHL/Global Infrastructure Nigeria has not been receiving the promised support from the Federal Government of Nigeria (FGN) as contemplated under the share purchase agreement.
The IAF has paid French aerospace firms Dassault and Thales about Euro 350 million for 'performance-based logistics'. This requires the vendors to ensure that 75 per cent of the Rafale fleet is combat-ready at all times, notes Ajai Shukla.
Flight services were disrupted in Karnataka while in Tamil Nadu, heavy rains battered Karur, Ariyalur, Perambalur, Thanjavur, Tiruvarur and coastal Pudukkottai and Nagapattinam districts.
Sixteen deaths in rain and flood-related incidents have been reported from western Maharashtra in the last seven days, while the toll in Karnataka rose to five since Sunday.
Normal life returned in various parts of the state, including the Cauvery Delta districts, as there were no rains since Thursday.
More than a million people were left homeless and many more in need of humanitarian assistance, with the deadly cyclone devastating large areas of Myanmar and killing at least 22,000, the United Nations said on Thursday. Another 41,000 are still missing. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon urged the Myanmar government to respond to the outpouring of international support and solidarity, by facilitating the arrival of aid workers and the clearance for the relief supplies.
The Irrawaddy delta, which was directly hit by Cyclone Nargis on Friday, remains cut off and it could be days, or even weeks, before aid reached the victims, UN said. Reports from Myanmar said in Yangon, volunteers including Buddhist monks and the army were trying to clear the debris, but in the adjoining areas where most of the more than 22,000 people died and twice the number went missing, the survivors were on their own.
Bids to be evaluated according to guidelines by the civil aviation ministry, following which a buyer will be selected. Transfer of control to the buyer to be effected by June-end.
We have to move from E-governance to M-governance. M-governance does not mean Modi governance. It means Mobile governance, the PM said.
Air France-KLM is planning to invest directly in the US airline industry for the first time by taking a minority stake in the group expected to be formed from a merger of Delta Air Lines and Northwest Airlines, the number three and five US carriers.
A drunken conversation tipped off Thane Crime Branch detectives to the unprecedented scam targeting unsuspecting Americans from call centres in Thane.
The Beijing Olympic torch relay will resume on Thursday in the coastal city of Ningbo after three days of national mourning for the victims of the Sichuan earthquake, Xinhua news agency said. Jiaxing, also in Zhejiang province, will welcome the torch after Ningbo and if the original schedule is retained, it will then head to Shanghai over the following two days.
No major price skirmishes expected; Passengers seem to prefer flights with a short stop-over.
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Dr Y S Rajasekhar Reddy on Tuesday sought a massive central assistance of over Rs 31,000 crore (Rs 310 billion) for accelerating the development in various sectors in the state.
In the early hours of Tuesday, 12 Indian Air Force Mirage-2000 fighter jets entered Pakistani airspace and dropped 1,000-kg laser-guided bombs on Jaish-e-Mohammed terror launch pads across the Line of Control.
Leading an agitation at the Egmore Railway station in Chennai, Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam General Secretary Vaiko and VCK Chief Thol Thirumavalavan, along with several workers including those from the Left parties, blocked an express train.
The Non-Resident Keralite Affairs Department was also in touch with the Indian Embassy in Nigeria to find out about Murugan, Achuthanandan said while replying to a submssion.
The further their name sits from the bottom of the seniority list, the more likely they will keep their job even as an airline take steps to slash expenses and eliminate routes.
As competition hots up, airlines are doling out freebies to wean away customers.
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Komagatu Maru was a Japanese ship that had on board 376 passengers, mostly Sikhs, from India in 1914.
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