Airlines
A recent report by an expert committee has revealed a distressing near-miss incident between a Presidential helicopter and an Air India plane at Mumbai. The committee, led by Director General Civil Aviation S N A Zaidi, found that the Indian Air Force (IAF) chopper of the VVIP entourage landed on
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India's Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) and Airports Authority of India (AAI) have proposed a three-minute complete airport closure before and after the arrival or departure of any VVIP flight at all airports across the country. This would mean a six-minute closure in case of a VVIP
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The Indian Board for Reconstruction of Public Sector Enterprises (BRPSE) has taken an interest in understanding why Air India, now National Aviation Company of India Limited (NACIL), has lost its market share. BRPSE chairman Nitish Sengupta announced that the board would examine NACIL's affairs to identify the reasons
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Bahraini authorities have launched a crackdown on con artists selling fake visas to foreigners, following a recent scam that saw three Indians attempting to enter the country with fake documents. The Labour Market Regulatory Authority (LMRA) has pledged to take legal action against rogue agencies and freeze their activities, while
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The acquittal of two men charged in the 1985 bombing of Air India Flight 182, which killed 329 people, has left the victims' families and investigators searching for justice and answers. Nearly two decades of investigations have yielded few leads, and the case remains one of the most baffling
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The verdict in the 1985 Air India bombing trial was delivered on March 15, marking the end of a 19-month trial that has been one of the most exhaustive and expensive in Canadian history. The trial involved two Canadian Sikhs, Ripudaman Singh Malik and Ajaib Singh Bagri, who were accused
