New Delhi: Cash-strapped Kingfisher Airlines' CEO Sanjay Aggarwal has written to the airline employees asking them to help the airline back to normalcy. "We need you to help us to have any chance of getting back to normalcy. Hope we will able to present viable plan to the DGCA and we hope to resume operations on October 13." Sanjay's letter says that the airline management has been working relentlessly to...
11:26 AM, Oct 10, 2012
New Delhi: Kingfisher Airlines' woes continue as the airline's employees will be marching from India Gate to Jantar Mantar on Tuesday as there seems no end to the deadlock with the management. The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) is also expected to send Chairman Vijay Mallya a notice in connection with the suicide of an employees wife. The Kingfisher staffer's wife committed suicide on Thursday citing financial strain. She had...
09:06 AM, Oct 09, 2012
The Centre on Monday refuted speculation about an Air India strike. Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh said that he had not received any letter from Air India pilots over the delay in salary payments. Reports are rife that a section of Air India pilots have sought Ajit Singh's intervention in resolving their grievances related to due salaries and allowances. ...
12:54 PM, Oct 08, 2012
Beijing: Apple parts maker Foxconn has denied that about 4,000 workers at its plant in China's Zhengzhou city went on strike Friday. A worker, however, told a state-run Chinese daily that the company has been receiving complaints about the fragile phone shell and they were "reprimanded once every day before getting off from work". Foxconn said only some 200 workers were "absent intentionally". New York based China Labor Watch (CLW)...
12:02 PM, Oct 08, 2012
The unending woes of Kingfisher Airlines have been brought into sharp focus by the suicide of a ground engineer's wife, allegedly because she was depressed ...
11:29 AM, Oct 08, 2012
New Delhi: With DGCA serving a show-cause notice to beleaguered Kingfisher Airlines asking why its license should not be taken away, industry experts on Saturday said it could have been issued four months ago when the then aviation regulator chief had made a similar recommendation to avoid the present situation. "The government should have taken forward the recommendations made by then DGCA chief EK Bharat Bhushan who had recommended issuance...
10:04 AM, Oct 07, 2012
New Delhi: More trouble for Vijay Mallya owned Kingfisher Airlines as the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has now issued a show-cause notice to the airline asking why its flying permit should not be cancelled. The airline employees staged protests across the country over non-payment of salary on Friday. Kingfisher employees were out on the streets - a nationwide protest launched against the management for not paying salaries for...
07:42 AM, Oct 06, 2012
New Delhi: Kingfisher Airlines expects to resume operations in four or five days after about 100 pilots and engineers in Delhi had agreed to return to work, an executive with the ailing airline said on Thursday. Sanjay Bahadur, vice president of corporate affairs, also said the airline expects to pay salaries for March within a week. Cash-and-debt-strapped Kingfisher, once India's second-largest airline, is half a year behind on salary payments...
11:36 AM, Oct 04, 2012
London: An Indian origin doctor in London went the Gandhian way to take on authorities at the Addenbrooke Hospital in Cambridge. He has claimed that they sacked him for blowing the whistle on healthcare malpractices in the UK. He carried out an unusual Gandhian outside the Department of Health in London, across from Downing Street. Dr Narinder Kapur was sacked from Addenbrooke Hospital in Cambridge for blowing the whistle on...
10:13 AM, Oct 04, 2012
New Delhi: The deadlock between the Kingfisher Airlines management and its pilots and engineers continues as talks failed between them. A representative of the striking Kingfisher engineers and pilots said the strike will continue as the management has failed to give any commitment on payment of salaries. This came even as Kingfisher CEO Sanjay Agarwal met the Director General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) and promised to restart operations by Friday....
04:03 PM, Oct 03, 2012
New Delhi: Trouble also continues for Vijay Mallya-promoted Kingfisher Airlines. A day after its flights were grounded by a strike, Kingfisher CEO Sanjay Agarwal met the Director General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) and promised to restart operations by Friday. Agarwal also explained the partial lockout at the DGCA office. Kingfisher has promised to restart operations by Friday. For that to happen employees who've gone without salaries for over seven months...
07:59 AM, Oct 03, 2012
London: The Pakistani Taliban has offered protection to Imran Khan who is scheduled to hold a peace march in the violence-prone tribal areas on Sunday, it was reported in London. Imran Khan, a former cricketer, now heads the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf. His rallies have witnessed a massive participation. The Pakistani Taliban's senior commanders said a meeting headed by the group's leader Hakimullah Mehsud set aside earlier instructions to send suicide bombers...
05:01 PM, Oct 02, 2012
New Delhi: The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) on Monday and said that no Kingfisher Airlines flight was operating at present. Kingfisher cancelled flights due to pilots and engineers not reporting to work due to non payment of salaries. The airline in a statement said that it is taking all possible measures to lessen the impact of the employee strike. The airline further said it would proactively cancel flights...
12:13 PM, Oct 01, 2012
Mumbai: Kingfisher Airlines tumbled nearly 5 per cent to Rs 15.35 after it cancelled several flights due to pilots and engineers not reporting to work due to non payment of salaries. The airline in a statement said that it is taking all possible measures to lessen the impact of the employee strike. The airline further said it would proactively cancel flights on Monday as it feared a number of its...
11:04 AM, Oct 01, 2012
Mumbai: Aviation regulator DGCA will on Monday review Kingfisher Airline's operations in the wake of mass cancellation of its flights, even as a section of the airlines Mumbai-based pilots joined in the strike by its engineers. "We will review the situation of Kingfisher Airline," Director General of Civil Aviation Arun Mishra said. Mishra also said that airline's situation will also be discussed with the Civil Aviation Ministry. The engineers of...
09:54 AM, Oct 01, 2012
Kingfisher Airlines operations in Mumbai and Delhi have been crippled as a section of airline engineers have gone on a flash strike. This over the non-payment of salaries since March. Two airline managers were reportedly heckled by protesting angry staff. Staff representatives had met with the Airline's management last week to iron out their grievances but the talks failed. Passengers as always bore the brunt of the stand-off. "They didn't ...
09:43 AM, Oct 01, 2012
Bangalore: LPG distributors in Karnataka on Saturday said they would stop delivery of cooking gas cylinders for domestic consumers from October 1 to highlight their problems and press the demand for revision of commission. The Distributors' commission which is Rs 25.03 for a 14.2 kg cyclinder had not been revised for the last three years despite the oil companies sending a proposal to the government seeking enhancement, Karnataka Circle of...
03:22 AM, Sep 30, 2012
Itanagar: Arunachal Pradesh has witnessed bandh in 173 days in the last 12 years. At least 4,168 hours have been affected by bandh calls in different parts of the state since 2001 till date, Chief Minister Nabam Tuki informed the Assembly on Saturday. Tuki, who also holds the Home portfolio, was replying to a question raised in the house during question hour by NCP MLA Bamang Felix. Tuki said, a...
05:19 PM, Sep 29, 2012
New Delhi: The National Federation of LPG Distributors of India has announced a nationwide strike on October 1 against the cap on subsidised cylinders introduced recently by the government to deal with its huge subsidy bill. The Federation's General Secretary Pawan Soni said that the move would create a huge black market and lead to unfair trade practices. "With the government's latest decision on LPG cylinders, both the consumers and...
12:24 PM, Sep 24, 2012
Chennai: Daily wage earners were robbed of their earning for the day as shops across Chennai downed shutters to observe the day-long protest against FDI in retail and diesel price hike. We have been lying idle without any work due to the bandh, said Robert, who pedalled his tricycle daily to ferry construction material and cement for hardware shops in Purusawalkam. The load handlers in Koyambedu had to forego their...
02:25 PM, Sep 21, 2012
