New Delhi: Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh on Friday made public the Dharmadhikari Report and said that the demands of striking Air India pilots will be looked into only after they end their strike unconditionally. Singh also said that the ministry has set up a core panel to implement the recommendations of the Dharmadhikari report on the merger of Indian Airlines and Air India. There will be parity between the...
01:59 PM, Jun 01, 2012
New Delhi: Aviation regulator DGCA on Thursday asked three office-bearers of the de-recognised Indian Pilots Guild (IPG), leading the pilots' strike, to appear before it on Monday and explain as to why their flying licenses should not be cancelled for not joining duty. As the strike led by the IPG entered the 25th day, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation asked the three office-bearers to appear before it on June...
10:48 PM, May 31, 2012
New Delhi: Left leaders Prakash Karat, AB Bardhan and Sitaram Yechury on Thursday courted arrest along with a number of their supporters in central Delhi as part of their protest against petrol price hike. The protest was organised at Delhi Gate on Thursday morning and a number of demonstrators blocked traffic. Holding placards and shouting slogans against the government, the Left activists marches towards the Daryaganj Police Station where they...
12:50 PM, May 31, 2012
New Delhi: The nationwide bandh called by the NDA and the Left Front evoked a mixed response from across the country on Thursday. While the NDA states were hit by the Bharat bandh, there was a lukewarm response in the Congress-ruled states as they remained partially affected. Most of the protests have been peaceful till now, but sporadic violence has been reported from Maharashtra and Karnataka. In the BJP-ruled Karnataka,...
11:44 AM, May 31, 2012
New Delhi: JD(U) chief Sharad Yadav was detained on Thursday in Bihar while he tried to enforce the Bharat bandh. JD(U)'s women's wing also stalled traffic on rail route in Patna. BJP leader Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi also courted arrest in Delhi. He tweeted, "I am arrested, While taking part in protest program against Petrol price rise, @ akshardham." (sic). In Allahabad, Samajwadi Party workers, too, jammed the Delhi-Howrah rail route...
10:30 AM, May 31, 2012
New Delhi: The Bharat bandh against petrol price hike started affecting normal life across the country on Thursday. The protests even turned violent at some places with public transport being damaged. In Karnataka, three state-run buses were burnt and 11 others were damaged early on Thursday morning. Following this, the BMTC has suspended operations for now and will review the situation after a meeting. There were similar scenes in Pune...
09:30 AM, May 31, 2012
New Delhi: The Bharat bandh call by the NDA and the Left parties started affecting normal life on Thursday with the other parties joining the the protests. Rail traffic was hit as Samajwadi Party and JD(U) workers blocked rail routes in Allahabad and Patna. The Saket Express and Ganga Gomti Express were stopped in Allahabad. The bandh turned violent in Karnataka as protestors burnt three state-run buses and damaged 11...
07:40 AM, May 31, 2012
New Delhi: The Delhi government on Wednesday warned various auto-rickshaw unions not to go ahead with their proposed strike on Thursday demanding hike in fares, saying it punitive action may be taken against those who participate in the protest. Transport Minister Arvinder Singh Lovely said a majority of auto-rickshaw unions have conveyed to the government their decision not to participate in the strike. Lovely said the unions which have given...
11:02 PM, May 30, 2012
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Wednesday refused the striking Air India pilots to train on Boeing 777 while hearing a plea filed by the airline management. The High Court said that it would consider the pilots request to train on the aircraft only after they end their 23-day long strike. The High Court also said that pilots have no right to disobey and go for the training as...
01:12 PM, May 30, 2012
New Delhi: It is day 23 of the Air India pilots' strike and Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh has reiterated that the pilots' demands will be considered only when they return back to work. Meanwhile, from June 1, the airline will drop seven international flights - so out of 45 flights the airline will operate only 38. The national carrier has lost over Rs 310 crores due to the strike....
10:36 AM, May 30, 2012
New Delhi: Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh on Monday constituted a four-member panel to examine Air India's route profitability, even as the strike by pilots of the national carrier continued for the 21th day, taking its losses to more than Rs 300 crore (about $55 mn). The decision came after the minister reviewed the status of flights on domestic and international routes which are non-profitable. According to a ministry official,...
01:51 AM, May 29, 2012
Mumbai: Air India board will meet in Mumbai on Monday to discuss the nearly three-week-old strike by over 200 pilots and a host of financial issues. Airline sources said the board is likely to consider the next steps to be taken to deal with the strike, spearheaded by the now derecognised Indian Pilots Guild. The airline has sacked 101 pilots and is mulling hiring new pilots to restore normalcy its...
05:34 AM, May 28, 2012
New Delhi/Mumbai: Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh on Friday told Air India's striking pilots that the airline may begin hiring new pilots if the 18-day-old strike continued. "We are not waiting for them, (we) can even begin hiring new pilots," the minister told after meeting some of the striking pilots. "I have told them my stand, now they need to think," Singh said. "We are now flying half the international...
01:16 AM, May 26, 2012
New Delhi: A truce between Air India management and striking pilots may be on the cards after Union Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh on Friday met the pilots. Sources told CNN-IBN that the sacked pilots may be taken back on the case-to-case basis. The Air India management is also likely to hire pilots for international operations soon. Taking a tough stand on the issue earlier, the Aviation Minister had blamed...
01:55 PM, May 25, 2012
New Delhi: It's the 16th day of the Air India crisis. The cracks between the airline management and the Indian Pilots Guild seemed to have gone deeper. The Pilots Guild accused the management of indulging in financial malpractice and mismanagement that has caused the airline losses worth Rs 4,300 crore. "Mismanagement of the company's resources, hostility towards the welfare of erstwhile Air India employees and forced merger are the main...
02:16 PM, May 23, 2012
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