The Union Civil and Aviation Ministry has scrapped the international flying rights and domestic slots of the grounded Kingfisher Airlines Limited, which could make its planned, phased restart even more difficult. The move is likely to make available 25,000 add...
The Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh says that the Kingfisher Airlines might be able to fly again only if they have at least Rs 10 billion to restart operations. According to the sources in the government, the government might help KFA if they paid off all t...
Following Japan's Dreamliner problems, Boeing has requested all its aircrafts to be grounded until further notice. Boeing has announced that there might be some technical problems with the aircraft and that it would be safer to keep it grounded. India has abou...
Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh has assured that the problems faced by fliers due to frequent cancellations of Gulf-bound flights will be solved before January 2013. Overseas Indian Affairs Minister Vayalar Ravi had met Ajit Singh to brief him about the pro...
As the standoff between Kingfisher Airlines employees and management has come to an end, Vijay Mallya tweets saying that he welcomes all to work. In his tweet, he also thanks KFA employees for their faith in him and in the Airlines and for their continuing com...
Kingfisher Airlines CEO Sanjay Aggarwal plans to meet the engineers in the Delhi airport in an attempt to pacify the employees and coax them to return to work. The management has also agreed to disburse one month salary immediately so that the employees return...
The Indian Grand Prix is all set to rock the weekend, however for Kingfisher Airlines employees the competition is the only hope for them to meet their CEO Vijay Mallya. Mallya is expected to attend the F1 race and the employees are ready to stage a dharna to ...
Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh will meet the Kingfisher Airlines ground handling staff to chalk out a survival plan. He says that he will meet the employees to try and settle issues out of Court. The Minister had earlier said that the government was not in...
Battling the perception war, Kingfisher Airlines head Vijay Mallya, comes out on his Twitter profile and says that he is not an absconder. 'I travel 24/7 where my multiple work responsibilities take me. Sections of media call me an absconder because I don't ta...
Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh says that he knows that Kingfisher Airlines is in deep trouble and that the government cannot do anything about the situation. He also points out that the complete infrastructure of KFA has gone for a toss but the government...
In regard with the Kingfisher Airline fiasco, Union civil aviation minister Ajit Singh says that private firm employees do not come under any ministry's purview. He says the government can't interfere as Kingfisher is a private company. He agrees that though t...
Newshour | Following the DGCA's cancellation of the flying licence for Kingfisher Airlines, the company now comes up with a payment installment plan to pay all the dues. The first installment will be credited within 24 hours, the second in less than a week, an...
Centre Stage | The Kingfisher Airlines impasse continues as the employees have refused to accept the solution offered by the KFA officials. The officials have been attempting to pacify the agitating employees in vain. The Directorate General of Civil Aviation ...
The striking Kingfisher Airlines employees have refused to accept the offer put forward by the Airlines. The KFA management had earlier said that the employees will get three months' salaries before Diwali. Subasa Mishra, spokesperson of KFA Engineers Union sa...
KFA employees refuse to accept the new three-month dues payment plan and demand that Vijay Mallya meet them face-to-face. The Kingfisher Airlines had decided to pay its employees three-month dues by staggering the payments. The first installment will be credit...
Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh says that he has no hopes for Kingfisher Airlines and that the company might not recover at all. He says that the complete infrastructure of KFA has gone for a toss and the government is not in the business of reviving privat...
The Kingfisher Airlines decides to pay its employees three-month dues by staggering the payments. The first installment will be credited within 24 hours, the second in less than a week, and the third month's salary after Diwali. The employees have not been pai...
KFA employees refuse to accept the new three-month dues payment plan. The Kingfisher Airlines had decided to pay its employees three-month dues by staggering the payments. The first installment will be credited within 24 hours, the second in less than a week, ...
The Kingfisher Airlines has decided to pay its employees three-month dues by staggering the payments. The first installment will be credited within 24 hours, the second in less than a week, and the third month's salary after Diwali. The employees have not been...
Interior designer Pradeep Chakraborthy still awaits payment dues from the cash-strapped Kingfisher Airlines. The company owes him close to Rs 8 lakh in cash for several interior designing assignments that he had undertaken for the company. When he approached t...
The DGCA suspends the flying licence of the cash-strapped Kingfisher Airlines. As the employees await their unpaid salaries, and the company reels under a debt of more than Rs 7000 crore, chief Vijay Mallya chooses to remain silent. However, an official statem...
The Lavasa project in Maharashtra returns to haunt Sharad Pawar and his family as former IPS officer and lawyer-activist YP Singh presents documents showing Supriya Sule profiting from a government largesse when her cousin Ajit Pawar was in power. Singh says t...
Former IPS officer YP Singh's accusations against Arvind Kejriwal has put the activist-politician on the back foot. Singh questions why Kejriwal withheld crucial information against Sharad Pawar in the exposé against Gadkari. IAC member journalist-turned-acti...
Sharad Pawar agrees his daughter and her husband bought shares in Lake City Corporation but sold it after the project became embroiled in controversy. He was answering allegations with regard to the Lavasa City development of a tourist city in Pune district, a...
Newshour | Times Now tries to get the root of the accusations made by former IPS officer YP Singh against Arvind Kejriwal. Singh says that Kejriwal, in his exposé against Gadkari, withheld crucial information against Sharad Pawar in the Lavasa project. Arnab ...
Former IPS officer of Maharashtra, YP Singh, says Arvind Kejriwal has been given documents related to alleged favors given to Sharad Pawar's daughter Supriya by the Maharashtra government, but he did not highlights them. He says Sule got share in Lavasa City C...
NCP leader Sharad Pawar dismisses allegations that he was involved in the Lavasa Hill City project scam. Former IPS officer YP Singh had alleged that Sharad Pawar and Ajit Pawar were instrumental in transferring 348 acres of unused land, acquired for Maharasht...
Former IPS officer YP Singh accuses IAS activist Arvind Kejriwal of revealing only select truths about Nitin Gadkari's connections with Ajit Pawar. He accused Kejriwal of revealing only the tip of the iceberg and holding back crucial information that could hav...
Former IPS officer YP Singh knew Arvind Kejriwal for a long time, and had given him documents that Singh felt would prove corruption charges against Sharad Pawar. He held a press conference today to ask why Kejriwal delayed highlighting corruption by Sharad Pa...
Land for the newly-developed Lavasa city near Pune was given by Maharashtra minister Ajit Pawar on a 30-year lease at a low rent to a company, which has nearly 20% shares owned by his cousin sister Supriya Sule. This is former Maharashtra IPS officer YP Singh'...
A former IPS officer in Maharashtra has claimed that Arvind Kejriwal is using the India Against Corruption banner for his own political motives. Joining the quagmire wrought about by Kejriwal's expose of various top political leaders, ex-officer YP Singh claim...
Activist-politician Arvind Kejriwal might have to face some serious allegations and answer some unpleasant questions. Former IPS officer and lawyer-activist YP Singh has accused Kejriwal of being selective in his exposés to further his own political ambition....
Newshour | The land deal for Nitin Gadkari in Maharashtra was cleared by the NCP leader Ajit Pawar in four days flat. Robert Vadra's land deal also got approved by the Hooda government in less than 18 days. These 'quick' land deals that come so easy for influe...
Yes, it is very much BJP president Nitin Gadkari, at the receiving end of 'third expose' by Arvind Kejriwal. He starts by asking if the BJP is the country's Opposition party or if there is any collusion between BJP and Congress in the states and the Centre? He...
Digvijaya Singh's sensational allegations: an organisation run by former Intelligence Bureau chief and bureacrats, and supported by BJP, RSS and Subramanian Swamy were behind the allegations against the Sonia Gandi family. Diggy mentions the name as the Viveka...
Delhi Telugu Academy honoured achievers at its 25th anniversary cultural celebration. Producer D Ramanaidu was presented with the Lifetime achievement award. Two TV9 journalists were also honoured. The event was followed by a cultural programme.
Kingfisher Airlines extends its lockout for another week until October 20 after the DGCA sent out a showcause notice to the management. The salaries have still not been paid fully to the employees and related issues are still being resolved. In the light of th...
Ajit Singh's Rashtriya Lok Dal launched its Telangana unit in Hyderabad. The presence of the Telangana Congress MPs at the occasion has lead to much speculation. These Telangana MPs also declared their support to the new unit. The T MPs are sandwiched between ...
Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh has dismissed reports of trouble with Air India and said that action would be taken only if the pilots approach the ministry. He said that the Directorate General of Civil Aviation did not receive any letter from the Air Indi...
Following mass agitations by the Kingfisher pilots, now it is the turn of Air India pilots to demand their dues. The pilots have written to the Civil Aviation Minister, Ajit Singh, demanding that he intervene and meet their salary demands. The pilots claim tha...
Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh states that the crisis-ridden Kingfisher Airlines would have to satisfy aviation regulator DGCA on all aspects including safety and issue of non-payment of salaries to its employees in reply to the show cause notice. The mini...
The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has served a show-cause notice to the debt-ridden Kingfisher Airlines asking why its flying permit should not be suspended or cancelled. Earlier Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh had given indications about the...
The wife of an employee of Kingfisher Airlines, Sushmita Chakravarthy, committed suicide at her house in Delhi. In her suicide note she said her husband was distressed due to non-payment of salaries for the last six months. Aviation Minister Ajit Singh says th...
Reacting to the accusation that the Civil Aviation Ministry is being soft on the debt-ridden Kingfisher Airlines, Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh says that the Ministry is doing what it can do as per the rules. He goes on to say that the Director General of...
The Civil Aviation Minister has sent out a tough message to Kingfisher Airlines a day after the debt-ridden carrier extended its partial deadlock to Oct 12. Ajit Singh said that passenger safety cannot be compromised and Kingfisher will have to meet the DGCA g...
Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh has hardened his stand on the Kingfisher Airlines crisis, a day after the debt-ridden carrier extended its partial deadlock to Oct 12. Ajit Singh said that passenger safety cannot be compromised and Kingfisher will have to me...
Aviation Minister Ajit Singh has spoken out again on the Kingfisher crisis, saying that if employees are disgruntled then it is a question of passenger safety. The airlines has been forced to extend its partial lockout till October 12. The DGCA has filed a sta...
After Kingfisher CEO Sanjay Agarwal's meeting with the striking engineers and pilots failed to end the deadlock, the debt-ridden carrier extended its partial deadlock to Oct 12. Ajit Singh said that passenger safety cannot be compromised and Kingfisher will ha...
Market Hour brings reactions from the insurance sector after the Cabinet clears bills and raises FDI in the insurance sector to 49 percent. The FDI in pension fund is also on par with insurance now. Finance Minister P Chidambaram says these reforms will influe...
News Night | Adding to the woes of the crisis-struck Kingfisher Airlines is the suicide of the wife of one of the staff members. The Airline is forced to take cognizance of the matter as financial crisis has apparently led to this extreme step. Civil Aviation ...
Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh has emphasized that the safety of the passengers is the primary concern. The DGCA has now filed a status report on Kingfisher Airlines, demanding that the Airline declare its future strategy. The Civil Aviation Minister Ajit...
The Kingfisher management will not be meeting with the DGCA today. The Kingfisher crisis continues to escalate as talks between the management and striking employees fails yet again. The DGCA has now filed a status report on Kingfisher Airlines, demanding that...
The Kingfisher crisis continues to escalate as talks between the management and striking employees fails yet again. A crucial meeting will now be held between the Kingfisher management and the DGCA. The Directorate General of Civil Aviation has now filed a sta...
The Kingfisher deadlock continues. Around 40-50 KFA ground staff and a few engineers were present at the emergency meeting with Sanjay Agarwal, the Kingfisher CEO. The employees have rejected the compromise formula pitched during the meeting. Civil Aviation Mi...
The Kingfisher Airlines CEO Sanjay Agarwal evades questions on the all-important meet with the KFA employees, which is likely to determine the future of the cash-strapped airline. The KFA crisis compounds as talks between the management and the striking engine...
The DGCA has played it tough on Kingfisher Airlines and has demanded that the airlines submit a report on all the queries asked. The DGCA has asked the airlines whether it can sustain the integrity of the schedule and manage to stay afloat. The airlines will s...
Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh addresses the media on the issue of the Kingfisher crisis, which is gradually spiralling out of control. The KFA crisis compounds as talks between the management and the striking engineers fail for the second day in a row. Th...
The Kingfisher Airlines has run into deeper trouble with talks between the management and striking employees failing once again. The SBI has already declared KFA to be heavily under debt. The airlines has a debt of a whopping Rs 7000 crore and its fleet size h...
Aviation Minister Ajit Singh says that safety is non-negotiable and that the Kingfisher Airlines can begin anew its operations only after the certified engineer gives its the necessary permission after ensuring the passenger safety. The Directorate General of ...
Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh has said that passenger safety is of utmost importance and that the Kingfisher Airlines can restart its operations only if it gets the airworthiness certification from the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA).
Centrestage | After the employee strike Kingfisher Airlines faces another problem. Aviation Minister Ajit Singh says that safety is the number one issue that the strike by Kingfisher engineers has raised and that the airlines must address this situation immedi...
There are no engineers available to certify airworthiness of Kingfisher Airlines flights. The DGCA has said that since the engineers of Kingfisher Airlines are on strike, unless each flight is certified by them for airworthiness, flights cannot take off. KF c...
Union Minister of Civil Aviation Ajit Singh says that providing affordable air connectivity to remote and interior areas of the country, the North Eastern Region and Tier-II & III cities of India is high on his priorities. For this new and innovative solution ...
Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh has ordered the immediate suspension of six senior Airports Authority of India (AAI) officials following irregularities in awarding airports' ground handling contracts. The CBI, which was ordered to probe into the alleged gra...
The Government's reforms include upto 51 percent FDI in multi-brand retail, upto 100 percent FDI in single brand retail, FDI cap of 74 percent on broadcasting services and stake sale in five PSUs. Also, foreign airlines can buy upto 49 percent of Indian carrie...
Congress leader Ajit Jogi accuses the BJP of coalgate and says that Chhattisgarh CM Raman Singh had favoured BJP leader Sancheti. He says that there needs to be an enquiry into the allocations made to SMS Infra and that Gadkari could very well be a sleeping pa...
Newshour | Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav refuses to take a stand on the Khap panchayat's oppressive diktat on women. On being asked whether such a diktat is right, the CM retorts that the issue is for the media to debate. A Khap panchayat had ear...
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav refuses to take a stand on the Khap panchayat's oppressive diktat on women. On being asked whether such a diktat is right, the CM retorts that the issue is for the media to debate. A Khap panchayat had earlier passed...
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav refuses to take a stand on the Khap panchayat's oppressive diktat on women. On being asked whether such a diktat is right, the CM retorts that the issue is for the media to debate. A Khap panchayat had earlier passed...
RLD chief Ajit Singh's son, Jayant Chaudhary, backs the Khap panchayat diktat on women in Uttar Pradesh. He says that the Khap has only issued instructions and they should not be taken as a diktat. Is garnering votes more important that upholding the dignity o...
RLD chief Ajit Singh's son, Jayant Chaudhary, backs the Khap panchayat diktat on women in Uttar Pradesh. He says that the Khap has only issued instructions and they should not be taken as a diktat. The Khap panchayat had earlier slapped a Taliban-style diktat ...
In a shocking turn of events, RLD chief Ajit Singh's son, Jayant Chaudhary, backs the Khap diktat on women in Uttar Pradesh. He says that the Khap has issued instructions and they should not be taken as a diktat. The Khap panchayat had earlier slapped a Taliba...
A day after DGCA Bharat Bhushan recommends the cancellation of Kingfisher Airlines he is unceremoniously sacked despite an extension. It is revealed that his sacking is directly related to his taking on KFA.
Shortly after the suspicious sacking of DGCA Bharat Bhushan despite an extension, Kingfisher Airlines issues a statement saying they are operating under stipulated saftey standards and have received no notice from the DGCA. Are KFA and other corporate lobbyist...
The Prime Minister Office writes to Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh questioning the sacking of DGCA Bharat Bhushan despite an extension. Ajit Singh claims ignorance of the extension given to Bharat Bhushan and says his succesor has been finalised on.
The Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh has refused to answer questions about the sacking of DGCA chief. In a totally unprecedented move the Civil Aviation Ministry had sacked EK Bharat Bhushan as chief of the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) withou...
The Civil Aviation Ministry sacks EK Bharat Bhushan as chief of the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA). The move to remove him was totally unprecedented as he was dismissed without any sort of prior notice. Prashant Sukul, joint secretary in the mini...
In the Air India Management talks scheduled with the striking pilots today, the Management has claimed it needs more time to ponder over the pilots' demands.
Newshour | Ending the 58-day strike, Air India pilots resume work following a High Court order. However, the question of whether this longest ever strike in the history of this nation, made any point at all, remains. The loss of Rs 600 crore caused by these st...
The Air India management and the striking pilots will meet soon to discuss the standoff. Following High Court's order, the pilots are likely to rejoin work unconditionally and the Government might actually reconsider its decision to sack the striking pilots.
The Air India pilots' strike is likely to be called off following claims by the Air India management that the crisis has been solved. The decision to call off the strike will be taken by 9'o clock on July 3.
Contrary to Air India lawyer's statement, following the court order, that the strike was called off, the IPG has said the strike is not called off yet but will be if the sacked pilots are reinstated .
Air India announces it decision to hire new pilots from July 23. The appointments of 300 striking IPG pilots will be terminated before the hiring process. This comes as a huge setback to the pilots as many have been on a hunger strike for over a week.
Following Congress MLA Ajit Singh Mofar's shocking comment that all stray dogs could be sent to the North East where their 'demand' is more, several people express their anger. Not only has this raised an outrage for its evident racial slur but has also angere...
Centrestage | Congress MLA Ajit Singh Mofar pulls a shocker by stating that all stray dogs could be sent to the North East where their 'demand' is more. He also goes on to say the dogs can be sent to Mizoram and Nagaland where they have their 'own way' of usin...
Congress MLA Ajit Singh Mofar pulls a shocker by stating that all stray dogs could be sent to the North East where their 'demand' is more. He also goes on to say the dogs can be sent to Mizoram and Nagaland where they have their 'own way' of using the animals....
Congress spokesperson Manish Tiwari distances himself and the party from the comments made by MLA Ajit Singh Mofar. He says that the MLA is 'an avid skater and he should stick to skating'. Ajit Singh Mofar had earlier pulled a shocker by stating that all stray...
The medical team checking on the pilots of Air India, who have gone on a hunger strike, claims that some of their conditions are worrisome. The pilots who enter the sixth day of their hunger strike are not very stable and some of them might deteriorate further...
It is not everyday that you see the Prime Minister, the UPA chairperson, Rahul Gandhi, Lalu Prasad Yadav, Ajit Singh, Ram Vilas Paswan sit across an government official who sits and awaits for a government procedure to begin. This is what you will see in this ...
Pilots of the now-derecognized Indian Pilots' Guild (IPG) said 11 pilots would be on fast for at least 48 hours at Delhi’s Jantar Mantar, after which their place would be taken by fresh set of strikers. A similar exercise started at Mumbai's Azad Maidan on ...
Aviation minister Ajit Singh sticks to his hand, refuses to succumb to pressure after Air India pilots go on hunger strike. He says they need to come back to work first and then discussions can follow. He adds, with some sarcasm, that going on the 48-hour hung...
Congress president Sonia Gandhi is set to meet its toughest ally Trinamool Congress chief and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee seeking to build consensus on the UPA's candidate for President. Congress had earlier met DMK chief M Karunanidhi, RLD chi...
Yoga guru Baba Ramdev keeps the heat on UPA as he gains the support of TDP leader Chandrababu Naidu for his anti-corruption campaign. Riding on the momentum of allying with Nitin Gadkari, Sharad Pawar and Ajit Singh, the yoga guru now takes his campaign to the...
JD(U) chief Sharad Yadav extends his support to Yoga guru Baba Ramdev in the fight for bringing back the black money stashed abroad. The Yoga guru had earlier gained the support of Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) chief and Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh, NCP chief...
Yoga guru Baba Ramdev meets JD(U) chief Sharad Yadav to seek his support in the campaign to bring back the black money stashed abroad. Ramdev had earlier met Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) chief and Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh, NCP chief Sharad Pawar and BJP p...
Unfazed by growing criticism for meeting politicians, Baba Ramdev continues to do what he wants to do. The Yoga guru meets Aviation Minister Ajit Singh to seek his support in his fight against black money and corruption.
Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh finally comes down heavily on Air India pilots, and says that sacked pilots will not be reinstated and that pilots on strike will not be paid salaries.