Qatar Airways is ready to see its legal dispute with Airbus over flaws with protective skin of A350 wide-body jets through to trial, the Gulf carrier said on Tuesday. Qatar Airways is suing the European planemaker in a UK court for $1 billion in damages after grounding about two dozen of its A350s experiencing the […]
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DULT shelves plans to fully pedestrianise Gandhi Bazaar main road
Having faced serious objections from residents and traders in Gandhi Bazaar main road, the Directorate of Urban Land Transport (DULT) has shelved the idea to pedestrianise the entire stretch. The designs and drawings the DULT posted in public domain is different from its initial proposal to pedestrianise the stretch. Traders and residents argued against the […]
L&T bags order for Chennai Metro Rail Project
Infrastructure major Larsen and Toubro (L&T) on Monday said it has received another significant contract order for Chennai Metro Rail Project. According to the company’s project classification, the value of a significant order ranges between Rs 1,000 crore to Rs 2,500 crore. “L&T Construction awarded another Significant contract for Chennai Metro Rail Project (CMRL),” L&T […]
EU agrees ban on most Russian oil imports
EU leaders on Monday backed a ban on most Russian oil imports, after a compromise deal with Hungary to punish Moscow for the war in Ukraine. The 27-nation bloc has spent weeks haggling over a proposed total embargo on Russian oil but came up against stubborn resistance from Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban. EU leaders […]
How the Ukraine conflict is reshaping global oil markets
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has reconfigured the global oil market, with African suppliers stepping in to meet European demand and Moscow, stung by Western sanctions, increasingly tapping risky ship-to-ship transfers to get its crude to Asia. The reroutings mark the biggest supply-side shakeup of the global oil trade since the US shale revolution altered the […]
BMTC sets July deadline to ply 12-metre e-buses
The BMTC has set July as the deadline to deploy at least 50 of the 300 large (12-metre) e-buses with officials working to set up charging stations in three depots. The bus corporation awarded the contract to supply and operate 300 non-AC buses to Ashok Leyland subsidiary Switch Mobility Ltd in November. Officials said they […]
Last body recovered from Tara Air plane crash site: Nepal Army
Nepal Army on Tuesday said it has recovered the last body from the wreckage site of the Tara Air plane that crashed in Nepal’s mountainous Mustang district on Sunday with 22 people on board, including four Indians, minutes after taking off from the tourist city of Pokhara. Authorities in Nepal resumed their search operation on […]
21 bodies pulled from wreckage of Nepal plane
Nepali rescuers have retrieved the bodies of all but one of 22 people on board a plane that crashed into a Himalayan mountainside over the weekend, the army said Monday. Air traffic control lost contact with the Twin Otter plane operated by Nepali carrier Tara Air shortly after it took off from Pokhara in western […]
No survivors found at Tara Air plane crash site, collection of dead bodies begins
No survivors have been found from the Tara Air plane that crashed in Nepal’s mountainous Mustang district on Sunday with 22 people on board, including four Indians, minutes after taking off from the tourist city of Pokhara, Nepalese media reported on Monday. The turboprop Twin Otter 9N-AET plane belonging to Tara Air went missing on […]
16 bodies recovered from Tara Air plane crash site in Nepal
At least 16 bodies were recovered from the wreckage site of the Tara Air plane that crashed in Nepal’s mountainous Mustang district on Sunday with 22 people on board, including four Indians, minutes after taking off from the tourist city of Pokhara, authorities said on Monday. The turboprop Twin Otter 9N-AET plane belonging to Tara […]
SriLankan Airlines starts refuelling at Thiruvananthapuram airport
With Sri Lanka reeling under its worst economic crisis, its national airline has begun refuelling at Thiruvananthapuram international airport. Now owned by the Adani group, the airport since Sunday is seeing the SriLankan Airlines fly down for refuelling. A few of their long haul flights to Australia and Europe have already availed the services according […]
Speed up pothole filling, BBMP chief tells officials
With the city weather getting warmer and sunny days making a comeback, the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) Chief Commissioner Tushar Girinath instructed BBMP officials to speed up the process of pothole filling. “The zonal commissioners and joint commissioners should personally monitor the progress. At least 25 loads of hot mix (18 during the day […]