State-owned Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency Ltd’s (IREDA) board on Thursday approved a proposal of Rs 24,200 crore borrowing for 2024-25. The borrowing includes fundraising through bonds, perpetual debt instruments (PDI), term loans, commercial papers, and external commercial borrowings (ECB), a regulatory filing said. According to the filing, the Board of Directors, in its meeting […]
Day: March 30, 2024
Tejas Mark-1A fighter aircraft completes first flight in Bengaluru
The first Tejas Mark-1A fighter aircraft took to the skies from the Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) facility in Bengaluru on Thursday. The successful sortie, which flew for 18 minutes, was piloted by HAL’s chief test pilot, Group Captain KK Venugopal (Retd). “HAL achieved this significant production milestone with concurrent design and development… subsequent to the […]
Over 44% passengers paid extra charges on booking flight tickets: Survey
As much as 44 per cent respondents in a survey complained that they had to pay extra charges to get a seat at the time of purchase of a flight ticket. Many of the respondents also reported paying between Rs 200 and Rs 2,000 as seat allocation fee, which can amount to 5-40 per cent […]
HAL conducts successful first flight of LCA Tejas Mk1A in Bengaluru
The first aircraft LA5033 of the Tejas Mk1A series successfully soared in the sky after taking off from the Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) facility in Bengaluru on Thursday, the public sector aerospace and defence company said. According to HAL, the Tejas Mk1A aircraft did a successful sortie with a flying time of 18 minutes. The […]
Centre gives green signal to road project in Andhra Pradesh tiger corridor
The National Board for Wildlife (NBWL) has recommended the use of more than 40 hectares of forest land from the tiger corridor connecting the Nagarjunasagar Srisailam Tiger Reserve (NSTR) and the Sri Venkateswara National Park in Andhra Pradesh for the development of expressways, economic corridors and inter-corridors under the second phase of Bharatmala Pariyojana, according […]
Baltimore bridge collapse: US concerned about impact on immediate region
US officials have expressed concern about the implications rippling beyond the immediate region after a key bridge harbouring America’s largest vehicle handling port collapsed in Baltimore when a cargo ship crashed into it, even as experts predicted repercussions to be “modest and mainly localised”. The 2.6km-long, four-lane Francis Scott Key Bridge over the Patapsco River […]