A UK court has asked Irish aircraft lessor Goshawk and Indian low cost airline SpiceJet to mutually mediate the payment despite recognising that the airline has defaulted on payment of lease. Goshawk and its trustees had sued SpiceJet for around $16.2 million, which they said SpiceJet has been unable to pay. In the summary judgement, […]
Day: May 24, 2021
Connectivity under UDAN: FlyBig to start flights between Pasighat in Arunachal Pradesh and Kolkata, Guwahati
From today, direct flight service will be started by FlyBig airlines between Pasighat in the East Siang district of Arunachal Pradesh, and Kolkata and Guwahati. FlyBig regional head Manima Baruah was quoted in a PTI report saying that on Sunday, the newly launched airlines operated a trial flight with an ATR 72 aircraft and it […]
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Petrol and diesel price today: A day after hitting new record highs on Sunday, petrol and diesel prices were steady across the country on Monday, May 24, 2021. The auto fuel prices had touched record highs on May 23, when petrol rose by 17 paise per litre while diesel inched up 29 paise in the […]
Diesel crosses Rs 84-mark in Delhi, petrol nears Rs 100 in Mumbai
Diesel price in the national capital on Sunday crossed Rs 84 mark while petrol rate in Mumbai neared Rs 100 a litre after fuel prices were raised again. Petrol price was increased by 17 paise per litre and diesel by 29 paise a litre, according to a price notification of state-owned fuel retailers. The hike […]
Barge P305: ONGC to provide logistical support to families of deceased
ONGC has announced that it will make arrangements to transport the mortal remains of personnel who died due to the sinking of barge P305 in cyclone Tauktae and provide all necessary logistical support to the families of the affected crew members. Sixty six of the 261 persons who were on board P305 have been confirmed […]
Gujarat: 4 bodies with life jackets on found in Valsad, link with ONGC barge suspected
Valsad police on Saturday recovered three bodies on Tithal beach and one body off the sea coast in Dungri taluka. All the bodies had life jackets on. The police have also found two abandoned boats at Umargam in Valsad district. Police suspect that the deceased might be aboard the ONGC barge that crashed into a […]
ONGC staffer released by ULFA: ‘Couldn’t tell night from day… spent agonising hours thinking about my son’s laugh, parents’
Like the countless night shifts he had worked since he joined the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited (ONGC) as a production engineer, the night of April 20 started out no different. But by the end of it, 38-year-old Retul Saikia was led out of his workplace of five years in handcuffs, shoved into a […]
ONGC staffer freed by ULFA-I a month later: ‘Missed my baby’
A month after his abduction, United Liberation Front of Asom-Independent (ULFA-I) released ONGC employee Retul Saikia on Saturday. Saikia was released at Longwa, in Nagaland’s Mon district, near India-Myanmar border, around 7 am Saturday, officials said. He reached Borhalla, his home in Assam’s Jorhat district, at 7.30 pm. Speaking to the media, Saikia said he […]
709 villages in Saurashtra still face blackout
Even as state-owned power companies were working overtime to restore its electricity distribution network destroyed by Cyclone Tauktae, as many as 709 villages of Sauarashtra continued to face blackout for the seventh day on Sunday. However, the number of villages without power has been going down every day with repair and restoration work on a […]
Belarus forces airliner to land and arrests opponent, sparking US and European outrage
Belarusian authorities scrambled a fighter jet and flagged what turned out to be a false bomb alert to force a Ryanair plane to land on Sunday and then detained an opposition-minded journalist who was on board, drawing condemnation from Europe and the United States. In what was described by some EU leaders as a hijacking, […]
Belarus forces Ryanair plane bound for Vilnius to land, infuriating Lithuania
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko ordered a Ryanair flight headed for Lithuania and carrying a young opposition blogger to land in Belarus on Sunday and detained him on arrival, prompting Lithuania to call for a NATO response. Law enforcers detained activist Roman Protasevich, 26, who had been put on a wanted list after last year’s mass […]
US airlines resuming flights to Israel after ceasefire
United, Delta and American said Friday they are resuming flights to Tel Aviv after Israel and Hamas agreed to a cease-fire in violence that had included rockets fired at Ben Gurion International Airport. Delta Air Lines plans to operate its first flight from New York to Tel Aviv since early last week on Friday night, […]