India Inc was, perhaps, watching out for a repeat of the dot-com bubble burst of the early 2000s.
Sources in the know confirmed Vistara, the joint venture between Tata Sons and Singapore Airlines, had booked six slots at the airport in New Delhi, adding it was ready to fly once it secured the government's nod.
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Can the leaky public distribution system, or PDS, deliver the subsidised grain to two-thirds of the population?
'Soon enough, we were out shouted. The journalist had a multiple agenda -- he berated the Government, the bureaucracy in general and the UPSC system that selected them.'
National carrier Air India became part of the 27-member global airlines grouping Star Alliance, as budget airline AirAsia India launched operations and Tata-SIA joint venture carrier Vistara received the flying permit and announced its intentions to start operations from January 9.
'Could the Khar police and the CBI have tinkered with the driver's call data records?' 'And did their fiddling with the information not make it that they were tampering with the lives of people that were in the balance as a result of this case?'
The only two truly successful private airlines in India - Jet Airways and IndiGo - have been set up and run by people who knew the ins and outs of the trade well before they took to the skies.
'Unni swung up his MP5 and fired a burst across the atrium. The bullets hammered into the wall. Then he bounded up the stairs leading to the other set of doors opening into the Palm Lounge. It was a terribly risky move because he didn't have a buddy to cover him.'
Tony Fernandes said the aviation sector here was a "double marathon" and not a "sprint".
A look at the life and times of maverick businessman Chinnakannan Sivasankaran
Indigo, the largest player in the domestic aviation space, cannot afford to ignore new entrant Vistara.
Siddharth Tata's Purple Chilli helps vegetable farmers earn an income 365 days a year.
R K Studios is not just another piece of real estate; it is part of India's movie history.
It is actually quite remarkable that EPW has survived for so long. "I see it as a journal of dissent," says Rammanohar Reddy and is thankful to the EPW community for keeping it relevant.
Some developers point out that what comes in the way of low-cost housing is the sky-high price of land
Union Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu aligns priorities, funding and organisation to shape a transformation agenda.
A glance back at some of the important ups and down Indian Inc faced in 2018.
If it ain't love, it ain't entrepreneurship.
Phee Teik Yeoh says that the worst is behind them.
The way to enjoy Munnar in the monsoons is to make peace with the rains, says Geetanjali Krishna.
Drones are being sold by e-retailers like Flipkart and Snapdeal for less than Rs 40,000 apiece.
'We're going to see a defence relationship that really takes off -- now that India is a major defence partner of the US, the sky is the limit for arms sales.' 'The economic partnership will lag behind the security relationship, but the meeting and joint statement give cause to believe that it will progress more robustly than many of us would have expected.'
Throughout, Mekhail spoke calmly, with hardly an inflection making even the barest attempt to hijack his tone. His tone was so empty it made his narrative all the more touching. And ugly and grey, as the monsoon sky beyond the window.
Apart from being luxurious, fast and expensive, it can take a serious beating any time of the day
Geeta Sridhar took in 28 children ailing with cancer into her home, and made them her own.
The kings of the ruling family of India's heartland -- father Mulayam Singh Yadav, the Samajwadi party supremo, and son Akhilesh Yadav, the UP chief minister -- are at war. And as on any chessboard, the queens have emerged as the power centres. Meet Dimple Yadav and Aparna Yadav.
Be willing to learn from mistakes.
'It's like your own private Boeing 747 which you can fly yourself. This concept brings the aeroplane closer to passengers and opens the cockpit to everyone.'
Nissan's affordable hatchback, especially made for India, also has a good drive quality.
A financial turnaround with the Etihad partnership and debt restructuring has not fully materialised.
A delayed monsoon and abundant cotton in the international market could spell trouble in the state's suicide zone.
Mr Rahul Gandhi himself has given seven different prices in different speeches with regard to the Rafale, that is the 2007 offer.
'In her insecurity, she destroyed the institutions of democracy.' 'She packed Parliament with her supporters with loyalty being more important than ability; she superseded judges; she corrupted the civil service.' 'She knew how to use people against each other and was quite a master of that.' 'She would do this with calculated skill and in the bargain cause enmity between brothers, split up families.'
The real estate sector is set to enter a progressive phase in 2015.
This was good enough for Fernandes to hire Chandilya to lead his India business.
'In her insecurity, she destroyed the institutions of democracy,' says Khushwant Singh.
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