Cash-strapped national carrier Air India should disclose its assets abroad and earnings from them, the Central Information Commission has ruled. It “summarily” rejected the contention of Air India that the information sought by activist Aseem Takyar regarding rent, lease fee fetched by it from April 01, 2008 with regard to its properties abroad; demarcation plan […]
Day: December 26, 2018
As coal demand exceeds supply, govt plans to allot 10 mines to CIL in 2019
With the coal demand from power sector exceeding the supply in 2018, the government is hopeful of higher output in the new year from already allocated mines and plans to further allot 10 mines to state-run behemoth Coal India Ltd (CIL) in 2019. Of the 85 mines already allotted, 23 have already started production and […]
IndiGo plane returns to parking bay at Hyderabad airport to offload baggage
A Delhi-bound IndiGo plane returned to the parking bay from the runway at Hyderabad on Wednesday to offload luggage of an individual who did not board the aircraft. The early morning flight 6E-308, carrying 175 passengers, was delayed by 56 minutes, the airline said. The flight was scheduled to take off at 0435 hours. A […]
Private buyers of Iran crude had no problems exporting it: oil minister
Private buyers of Iranian crude have had “no problems” exporting it, Iran’s oil minister was quoted as saying on Wednesday by state news agency IRNA, despite U.S. sanctions targeting Iran’s oil exports. Iran began selling crude oil to private companies for export in late October, just ahead of U.S. sanctions on sectors including oil which […]