The government is likely to frame rules very soon that will crack down on both excessive airfares charged from passengers by airlines as well as predatory airfares that will ensure a level playing fie

In a major move soon after taking office as the new Chief of Army Staff, Gen. Bikram Singh has ordered lifting of the discipline vigilance ban on 3 Corps chief Lt. Gen.

The government is strongly considering the option of sacking all striking Air India union pilots if they don’t return to work soon, sources said, but added no decision has been taken yet, to give pilo

The leading French technology firm Thales is looking to replicate its success with the Dubai Metro in Hyderabad, which is planning a modern metro system.

Thales, which provides India with the crucia

Ten striking pilots who were earlier served a showcause notice by the DGCA on why their licences should not be cancelled, are likely to tell the DGCA that the privilege of exercising their commercial

“The Ministry of Civil Aviation (MoCA) and the Government must recognise that Air India is the national carrier.

A large number of irregularities by employees causing financial loss to ailing national carrier Air India have come to light in the past three years, ranging from theft of caviar tins to a productivit

The Air Traffic Controllers (ATCs) have objected to training facilities at Gondia in Maharashtra on account of “huge infrastructural deficiencies” that they say has made the life of both trainees and instructors “miserable” there.

At some of the previous Army commander conferences, the situation in the area under the Army’s Lucknow-based Central Command — that includes Chhattisgarh — had come up for discussion. Within the country, the Army is currently carrying out counter-insurgency operations in Jammu and Kashmir and the Northeast.

Army units are currently undergoing jungle warfare training in Naxalite-affected Chhattisgarh, even as the Centre’s policy of not deploying the Army in anti-Maoist operations anywhere in the country remains in place.