Mumbai: The Rs 2,058 crore deal between Jet Airways and Etihad Airways will benefit passengers, as increased competition will bring down air fares, aviation sector experts said on Wednesday. According to Captain Gopinath, the founder of erstwhile Air Deccan, the increased competition will lead to low airfares, besides bringing about improvement in the passenger amenities.
Jet promoter Naresh Goyal and Etihad President and CEO James Hogan on Wednesday announced a strategic equity alliance in Abu Dhabi under which the Indian private carrier would sell 27.26 million shares in a preferential offer to Etihad at Rs 754.74 apiece.
"The deal may be good from the passengers' point of view as it would offer an enhanced connectivity, but at the same time too much access into the domestic market may result in Abu Dhabi becoming another Dubai which has today become a hub for the West-bound traffic," an expert said....
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07:35 AM, Apr 25, 2013
Social activist Medha Patkar is alleging fresh evidence in the Maharashtra Irrigation Scam. She has alleged Income Tax raids at the Mahalakshmi Infraprojects Limited uncovered proof of kickbacks being paid to the tune of Rs 44 crore. ...
09:26 AM, Apr 20, 2013
Mumbai: Social activist Medha Patkar has claimed to have fresh evidence in the Maharashtra Irrigation Scam. She has alleged that Income Tax raids at the Mahalakshmi Infraprojects Limited uncovered proof of kickbacks being paid to the tune of Rs 44 crore. The Income tax assessment report cites documents showing unexplained payments made to people represented by acronyms. Patkar has alleged the acronyms refer to top leaders like Deputy Chief Minister...
10:50 AM, Apr 19, 2013
Mumbai: Even as Maharashtra faces one of its worst droughts in four decades and people are forced to drink dirty water, thousands of litres of water was wasted during Maharashtra Forest Minister Patangrao Kadam 's visit to Marathwada region on Tuesday. Kadam visited Aurangabad on Tuesday to meet BJP leader Gopinath Munde, who is sitting on a fast against Maharashtra government's policy to tackle drought, and convince him to end...
03:38 PM, Apr 10, 2013
BJP President Rajnath Singh on Monday appealed to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to intervene in tackling the severe drought in Maharashtra. "Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is not serious about tackling drought. Singh should tour the drought-hit areas and give some relief to people," Rajnath told reporters at Bhakarwadi village in Jalna district of the worst-affected Marathwada region. ...
12:55 AM, Apr 02, 2013
Mumbai: Accusing the Maharashtra government of not being serious about tackling drought in the state, the BJP on Friday announced the party would distribute water tanks in 1,000 villages. "The state government is not very serious to mitigate the drought. Water and fodder have become grave issues and the movement of the people from the drought-hit parts is on rise. Instead of taking some long-term measures, the government is undertaking...
06:12 PM, Mar 28, 2013
Jalna: Senior BJP leader Gopinath Munde on Saturday said he was opposed to granting any remission to actor Sanjay Dutt, whose conviction in connection with the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts was recently upheld by the Supreme Court. "Granting any remission to Sanjay Dutt would set a bad precedent. Sanjay Dutt should not be pardoned simply because he is a celebrity", Munde said addressing a function in Jalna. Dutt would have...
01:23 AM, Mar 24, 2013
Indigenously developed Pinaka rockets were on Thursday successfully test-fired from a multi-barrel rocket launcher (MBRL) by an armament establishment from a base at Chandipur-on-sea, about 15 km from Balasore. ...
03:03 PM, Feb 28, 2013
Multiple Academy Award winners Jack Nicholson and Dustin Hoffman will present at this year's Oscars ceremony, show producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron announced today. ...
03:09 PM, Feb 23, 2013
Academy has added actors Salma Hayek Pinault, Melissa McCarthy, Liam Neeson and John Travolta to its star-studded list of Oscar presenters. Hayek earned an Oscar nomination for her leading performance in 'Frida'. She will be seen next in 'Grown Ups 2'. ...
05:20 PM, Feb 19, 2013
Tamil Nadu had scored 230 in their first innings, thereby taking a 22-run lead over the hosts who were bowled out for 208 in their first innings. ...
09:39 PM, Dec 17, 2012
BJP leader Gopinath Munde visited Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray's residence Matoshree on Thursday. He told the waiting media that Bal Thackeray was doing well. "I saw Balasaheb and also met Uddhav and the Thackeray family. Balasaheb is doing well," he said. ...
11:52 AM, Nov 15, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: Unni Krishnan Namboothiri has celebrated his 90th birthday. Communist leader Pinarayi Viajayan and many others from the political and film field reached his residence in Payyanur in Kannur district to greet him. Some of his movies include 'Kalyana Raman', 'Maya Mohini', 'Raapakal', 'Photographer', 'Pokkiriraja', 'Madhura Nombara Kattu', 'Angane Oru Avadhikkaalathu', 'Kaikudanna Nilavu' and 'Kaliyattam'. He acted with Rajnikanth in 'Chandramukhi', teamed up with Kamal Haasan for 'Pammal Sambandham' and...
04:01 PM, Oct 26, 2012
Actors Dulquer Salmaan and Aparna Gopinath have been roped in to play the lead pair in Martin Prakatt's 'American Born Confused Desi' (ABCD). The screenplay of the film is written by Sooraj and Neeraj. Gopi Sunder will compose the music for it. Shibu Thameens is producing the movie that also features Jacob Gregory, who was seen in comedy show 'Akkara Kazhchakal' in a prominent role. ...
06:36 PM, Oct 17, 2012
Kochi: Private bus operators in Kerala would withdraw services from October 29 midnight demanding hike in bus fares. The All Kerala Bus Operators Co-ordination Committee, comprising eight organisations, which met in Kochi on Saturday, took a decision to this effect. Briefing reporters, T Gopinath, Coordination committee General Secretary, said there is need to urgently hike the bus fares in the light of increase in diesel price. The committee had on...
02:19 AM, Oct 14, 2012
Kanhangad: CPM on Tuesday alleged that the ruling Congress led UDF government was trying to destroy state funded Kudumbashree, the women's Self Help Group for poverty alleviation programme. Speaking after inaugurating a party office at Pollakkad near Kanhangad in Kasargod district, CPM state secretary Pinarayi Vijayan alleged that UDF was allergic' towards Kudumbasree from the time it assumed office and was continuing that attitude. By promoting pro-congress 'Janashree mission', government...
05:40 PM, Oct 09, 2012
Vadodara: Senior BJP leader Gopinath Munde on Sunday described Narendra Modi as the "most popular" Chief Minister in the country. "Modi is not only pride of six crore people of Gujarat but also of ten crore Maharashtrians," Munde told a tribal rally at Uchhal town in Tapi district. The deputy Leader of BJP in Lok Sabha accompanied Modi in his 'Swami Vivekanand Yuva Vikas Yatra'. "BJP workers from Maharashtra will...
12:58 AM, Oct 08, 2012
Los Angeles: Actress Salma Hayek says she is happily married these days, but looking back, she didn't believe such a feeling would be possible. The 46-year-old Mexican beauty is married to French billionaire Francois-Henri Pinault and has a five-year-old daughter with him, reported Us magazine. "I didn't think marriage worked. I thought everybody who was married was secretly miserable that it was something they just put up with for their...
01:09 PM, Sep 27, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: The Central Bureau of Investigation probing into the SNC-Lavalin corruption case on Monday told the CBI special court that CPM state secretary Pinarayi Vijayan had not made any monetary benefit from the deal with SNC-Lavalin Company. The agency also gave a clean chit to former Electricity Minister and present Assembly Speaker G Karthikeyan. Stating that unnecessary interim petitions were being filed in sensational cases, the agency told the court...
12:43 PM, Sep 11, 2012
Venice: Thelma Schoonmaker, a three-time Academy Award winner, was awarded on Friday the second Gucci award for women's achievement in filmmaking for her work editing Hugo. Schoonmaker, 72, has worked on every Scorsese feature film and won the Academy Award for Raging Bull, The Aviator and The Departed. "I just don't think I would have become a filmmaker if I hadn't met him," Schoonmaker told The Associated Press after receiving...
05:46 PM, Sep 01, 2012
