Long lines of cars on roads snaking to Russia’s border crossings with Georgia, Kazakhstan and Mongolia, and similar queues at airports.Angry demonstrations not just in Moscow and St. Petersburg but in the remote far north province of Yakutia and in the poor, southern region of Dagestan, with women chasing a police officer and shouting, “No […]
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Iran offers Indian firms 30 per cent stake in field
Iran has offered ONGC Videsh Ltd and its partners a 30 per cent interest in the development of the Farzad-B gas field in the Persian Gulf that was discovered by the Indian consortium, officials said. ONGC Videsh Ltd, the overseas arm of state-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC), in 2008 had discovered a giant […]
Kavi Subhash premises becomes Metro hub
The 5.4km New Garia-Ruby line (the first truncated section of the 32km-long Airport-New Garia corridor – Orange Line) expected to be operational from November 22, will assume importance for being the city’s first Metro line to join another segment. With this, the Kavi Subhash compound will now be a Metro hub for the already operational […]
NHSRCL floats tender for underground tunnel for Mumbai-Ahmedabad bullet train project
National High Speed Railway Corporation Limited (NHSRCL) has invited bids for the construction of a 21-km-long tunnel, seven km of which will be under the sea, for the Mumbai-Ahmedabad High Speed Rail Corridor. The work on the corridor has gained momentum after the change in government in Maharashtra, with tenders, which were previously floated and […]
New DHR service to start on Monday
The Northeast FrontierRailway (NFR) will introduce a new tri-weekly toy train service of the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway (DHR)between New Jalpaiguri and Darjeeling from Monday. “The new passenger service of the DHR that will start on September 26 will comprise an AC vistadome coach and an AC restaurant-cum-power bogie, both of which altogether can accommodate 23 […]
Boeing to pay $200 million Max fine
Boeing Co will pay $200 million to settle charges that the company and its former CEO misled investors about the safety of its 737 Max after two of the airliners crashed, killing 346 people. The Securities and Exchange Commission said on Thursday that it charged the aircraft maker and former CEO Dennis Muilenburg with making […]
RIL arm to buy 20 per cent in Caelux
Reliance New Energy Ltd (RNEL), a wholly owned subsidiary of Reliance Industries Ltd, is investing $12 million for a 20 per cent stake in Caelux Corporation. Caelux, based in Pasadena, California, US, is engaged in the development of perovskite-based solar technology. Its proprietary technology enables high-efficiency solar modules that can produce 20 per cent more […]
Will stop global oil supplies if G-7 price cap unfair: Russian envoy
Russia on Friday said it would stop supplying oil to the global market if the price cap proposed by G-7 countries was not fair. “If we consider the prices are not fair and unacceptable to us, we would simply stop supplying the oil to global markets and to those countries that join the US initiative […]
Boeing to pay $200 million over misleading investors on 737 MAX
US authorities said Boeing and its former leader, Dennis Muilenburg, had “put profits over people” and misled investors about the safety of its 737 MAX planes after the 2018 and 2019 crashes. Aviation giant Boeing has agreed to pay $200 million (€203 million) to settle charges it misled investors over the safety of its 737 […]
SpiceJet pilots get 20 per cent hike
Budget carrier SpiceJet will increase the salaries of pilots by 20 per cent in October, within days of asking about 80 pilots to go on leave without pay for three months as a temporary measure to rationalise costs, according to an internal communication of the carrier. The airline has also got the first instalment of […]
DGCA extends 50 per cent cap on SpiceJet flights till October 29
Aviation safety regulator DGCA has extended the cap on SpiceJet flights by a little over one month as a matter of “abundant caution”, according to an official order on Wednesday. The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) had on July 27 ordered SpiceJet to operate a maximum of 50 per cent of its flights, which […]
Kurmi community’s drive for ST status hits rail services
Over 30 trains plying through Jharkhand had to be cancelled on Tuesday because of the agitation by the Kurmi community demanding Scheduled Tribe (ST) status and inclusion of the Kurmali language in the eighth schedule of the Constitution. The agitation which affected train services mostly in Bengal, Jharkhand and Odisha had the worst effect in […]