Lenders to Jet Airways on Friday said they had received financial bids from Etihad Airways and a few unsolicited parties to acquire a stake in the grounded airline. The consortium of 26 lenders had invited expressions of interest between April 8 and 12 and had received four preliminary bids. The lenders are offering a 31.2 […]
Category: Civil Aviation
Jet bidder emerges ahead of deadline
London-based AdiGro Aviation has emerged as a strong contender for Jet Airways, with bids for the ailing carrier set to close on Friday. “We are certainly putting in a bid,” Sanjay Viswanathan, the founder of AdiGroup, of which AdiGro Aviation is a part, told a news channel. AdiGro’s plans lift the gloom surrounding the 25-year-old […]
Supreme Court reserves verdict on contempt petition against Rahul Gandhi
Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Friday told the Supreme Court that he has already tendered an unconditional apology for “wrongly attributing” to it the “chowkidar chor hai” remarks and the criminal contempt proceedings against him should be closed. A bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi reserved the verdict on the criminal contempt plea filed […]
Supreme Court reserves verdict on Rafale review petition
Former Union ministers Yashwant Sinha, Arun Shourie and activist lawyer Prashant Bhushan on Friday sought from the Supreme Court setting aside its earlier verdict that dismissed their petition for criminal investigation into the Rafale fighter jet deal case. A bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi reserved its verdict on a batch of petitions seeking […]
Casualties as Russian plane on fire lands
At least 13 people on board a Russian Aeroflot passenger plane were killed on Sunday when the plane caught fire mid-air and made an emergency landing at a Moscow airport on Sunday, Russian news agencies reported. Television footage showed the Sukhoi Superjet-100 making an emergency landing at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport with much of the rear […]
21 hurt as Boeing 737 skids into Florida river
A Boeing 737 charter jet arriving at the Jacksonville, Florida, naval air station from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, slid off the runway into the St Johns river on Friday night, injuring at least 21 people, the authorities said. All the 136 passengers and seven crew members had been rescued by early Saturday morning, a navy spokeswoman […]
Anil’s ‘crony’ reply with UPA projects
The Anil Ambani group has rubbished Rahul Gandhi’s charge that promoter Anil Ambani is a crony capitalist of the Narendra Modi government who won sweetheart deals for his group. The Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group (ADAG) accused the Congress of waging a relentless campaign of “calumny, disinformation, distortion and malicious lies” even as it claimed that […]
Government confirms ‘frank’ Rafale file notings
The Centre on Saturday told the Supreme Court that the Prime Minister’s Office “monitoring” the Rafale deal could not be construed as “interference or parallel negotiations” as alleged by critics, but did not deny the claim that the defence ministry had objected to the PMO’s role. Seeking the dismissal of a batch of review petitions […]
Canadian firm Bombardier Inc to close Belfast unit
Canada’s Bombardier Inc shocked workers in Northern Ireland on Thursday by announcing it would sell its Belfast operation, the largest high-tech manufacturer in the British region, which employs 3,600 people. Located yards from the Belfast shipyard that built the Titanic, the plant in British-run Northern Ireland is by far the most important manufacturer left in […]
Cyclone Fani: Calcutta airport suspends operations
No flights will depart or arrive at Kolkata airport from 3 pm on Friday to 8 am on Saturday in view of the cyclonic storm ‘Fani’, which slammed into the Odisha coast in the morning, Indian aviation regulator DGCA said. On Thursday, the regulator said there would be no flights to and from Kolkata airport […]
Early landfall leads to early Calcutta airport closure
The Calcutta airport was shut down around 4pm on Friday — more than five hours before the scheduled suspension of operations — following a warning from the meteorological department that Cyclone Fani could hit the city earlier than expected. An advisory issued by the directorate general of civil aviation (DGCA) at 11am on Friday stated […]
Plane with 143 aboard crashes into Florida river, no deaths
A charter plane carrying 143 people and traveling from Cuba to north Florida ended up in a river at the end of a runway on Friday night. No critical injuries or deaths were reported, officials said. The Boeing 737 arriving at Naval Air Station Jacksonville from Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, with 136 passengers and […]