New Delhi: Kingfisher Airlines employees, who haven't received their salaries for months, adopted a unique form of protest. They booed Royal Challengers Bangalore's Virat Kohli at the Delhi airport on Tuesday. Virat is the captain of the team owned by Vijay Mallya who also owns Kingfisher airlines.
Kingfisher Airlines, once India's second-largest airline, is behind on salary payments and has grounded its fleet. Over 80 pilots and 270 Kingfisher engineers have been on intermittent strikes, primarily over delay in payment of salaries.
Kingfisher has been saddled with a huge loss of Rs 8,000 crore and a debt burden of over Rs 7,000 crore, a large part of which it has not serviced since January 2012. Several of its aircraft have been either taken away by its lessors or grounded by the Airports Authority of India for non-payment of dues during the past few months. Kingfisher's net loss in 2010-11 was Rs 1,027 crore and it doubled to Rs 2,328 crore in 2011-2012. The airline also owes money to 17 banks.
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11:40 PM, May 07, 2013
Shimla: Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh on Thursday said the state would adopt zero tolerance towards corruption. "Anyone found involved in corruption, including government employees, would be dealt with strictly," the chief minister said while laying the foundation stone of a bridge on the Lander rivulet on the Sohari-Chaksarai road in Una district. The bridge will be constructed at a cost of Rs.3 crore. He said the government would...
05:10 AM, May 03, 2013
Jaipur: Samajwadi Party in Rajasthan on Sunday alleged irregularities in a housing project for Central government employees and demanded a CBI probe into the matter. The company, which was given tender for the construction in 2007, committed a scam worth Rs 200 crore in connivance with the Central Government Employees Welfare Housing Organisation (CGEWHO) officials by inflating cost of the project, SP's state vice president Anil Shekhawat alleged. "The company...
02:43 AM, Apr 29, 2013
Chennai: Members of Tamil Nadu stuntmen's association won't work in any other language films unless Film Employees' Federation of South India (FEFSI) helps them arrive at mutual understanding over ongoing tussle between action artistes from Tamil and Telugu film industries. Tamil stuntmen demand equal distribution of work. "We demand equal participation in work when we do films in other languages. If we are doing films in other languages, then we...
05:24 PM, Apr 24, 2013
New Delhi: Over 50 million subscribers of the retirement fund body EPFO will be able to apply online for transfer and withdrawal of their provident fund from July 1, a move aimed at speedy settlement of claims. "We have decided to set up a central clearance house which will be operational on July 1. This will enable subscribers to apply online for settlement of the withdrawal and transfer of funds...
05:38 PM, Apr 18, 2013
Srinagar: Several contractual employees in the Jammu and Kashmir government were injured in protests on Wednesday. They employees were protesting against the termination of their services. The violence took place when the protestors were stopped by the police at Lal Chowk in Srinagar. The contractual employees clashed with police when the latter stopped them from disrupting traffic. The employees said they would have no work and their families would suffer...
10:19 PM, Apr 10, 2013
Toronto: Canada is investigating a report that its largest bank is using temporary foreign workers hired by outsourcing company iGate, which has most of its operations in India, to effectively replace existing staff, a situation the government said it would not accept. A Conservative government minister revealed the probe on Saturday after a report from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. The CBC story said Royal Bank of Canada was planning to...
08:53 AM, Apr 08, 2013
Over 50 lakh Central Government employees and 30 lakh pensioners could get a huge relief on Tuesday as the Union Cabinet is likely to approve a proposal to increase dearness allowance (DA) to 80 per cent from the existing 72 per cent. The increased dearness allowance could be applicable from January 1, 2013. ...
12:10 PM, Apr 02, 2013
The fast will take place at the 'Nadigar Sangam' premises in Tamil Nadu. ...
10:44 AM, Apr 01, 2013
India on Friday raised its concern with Saudi Arabia over its policy of reserving 10 per cent jobs for locals, a decision which will hit over 3 lakh low-and semi-skilled workers from India with a sizable number coming from Kerala. ...
01:47 AM, Mar 30, 2013
Thousands of Indian workers are likely to lose their jobs after a workforce nationalisation law came into effect in Saudi Arabia on Friday. The Nitaqat law makes it mandatory for local companies to hire one Saudi national for every 10 migrant workers. ...
12:07 PM, Mar 29, 2013
Frustrated over not getting salary for last 10 months, Kingfisher Airlines employees on Wednesday asked the government to prosecute promoter Vijay Mallya and threatened to disrupt IPL matches. ...
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Tamil Nadu Film Director's Association (TNFDA) general secretary M Ameer said a hunger strike will be observed from 9 am to 6 pm on March 19, 2013. ...
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12:32 PM, Mar 07, 2013
Novelist Toni Morrison, speaking Wednesday to dozens of Google employees holding laptops and smartphones, shared her vision for how she would turn the search engine leader into a literary character. ...
03:03 PM, Feb 28, 2013
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06:59 PM, Feb 12, 2013
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12:50 PM, Feb 04, 2013
A contractual employee at the Tihar jail was arrested for allegedly operating an extortion racket on the directions of an inmate, police said on Tuesday. Arun Kumar, 27, who works as a compounder on contractual basis, was running the racket on the directions of Amit Shukla, who is currently in the jail. ...
08:25 PM, Jan 29, 2013
