The airlines' flights to Southeast Asia operated as per schedule. Air India also operated its Delhi-Frankfurt-Chicago, Mumbai-Frankfurt-Chicago, Mumbai-London, Delhi-London, Amritsar-London-Toronto and Ahmedabad-Frankfurt flights this morning.
Steve McCLaren's VfL Wolfsburg slumped to another Bundesliga defeat on Saturday with a 2-0 loss at Borussia Dortmund while Michael Ballack was injured in Bayer Leverkusen's 2-2 draw at Hanover 96.
Japan won the women's World Cup on Sunday for the first time, stunning the heavily favoured United States 3-1 on penalties after a 2-2 draw in extra time.
News is already out that the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's delegation has been pruned for his trip to Pittsburgh. The staff on Air India One, the prime minister's official aircraft, were reportedly given advance instructions to trim the contents on offer in the official menu. The staff did not serve expensive biscuits and eliminated caviar, but in a concession to the media accompanying the delegation, served all those on board the choicest of liquor en route to Frankfurt.
Bayern Munich defender Daniel van Buyten headed in a cross eight minutes from time to give his team a 2-1 victory over promoted Nuremberg on Saturday and lift them to third place in the Bundesliga.
Crisis in the automotive industry is not over yet, but there are increasing signs that the bottom has been reached.
Dutch winger Arjen Robben scored twice on his debut to help Bayern Munich beat champions VfL Wolfsburg 3-0 and win their first league match of the season on Saturday.
'She is tough. She can be stern. She can be unpleasant. Rajiv was none of these things.' 'The Congress cannot survive without the Gandhi family. If Sonia were to quit, their Lok Sabha seats would drop from 44 to four.' K Natwar Singh shares his bitterness about the Nehru family with Rashme Sehgal.
The six-day-a-week flight will be operated by a 48-seat capacity business jet and cover the distance of 6,673 km. A-319 Airbus will be used to operate the flight. Timings: Departure from Pune at 5.29 am and arrival at Frankfurt at 10.50 am. Departure from Frankfurt at 4.15 pm and arrival at Pune at 4 am next day.
The first direct air link between India and Australia would be established by Air India when it launches non-stop flights from Delhi to Melbourne by October-November this year.
With Air India in dire straits, a demand was made on Wednesday by a Bharatiya Janata Party member in Lok Sabha for a Joint Parliamentary Committee probe into the workings of the national carrier, which has incurred Rs 5,000 crore (Rs 50 billion) losses.
India, besides China, the UAE and Qatar, are some of the major countries where CCI indulged in unfair practices to bag contracts.
Inaugurates terminal three at Delhi airport.
Eight fresh cases of swine flu were reported from across the country on Tuesday, bringing the total number of cases to 153.
A passenger, who arrived at the Bengaluru International Airport from Netherlands with suspected symptoms of the H1N1 flu, has been quarantined, a top health official said on Monday. "The passenger, who arrived at BIA from Netherlands via Frankfurt late on Sunday night, has been quarantined at the Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Chest Diseases," Usha Vasunkar, director of Health & Family Welfare Services, said. The man's throat culture samples have been sent for further tests.
Markets became jittery over the Spanish government's take-over at the weekend of regional savings bank Cajasur, which raised speculation that more unhealthy financial institutions may have to be bailed out to prevent a meltdown of the country's banking system.
'But where were the majority of my cousins from South Asia, the multitudes from Pakistan and Bangladesh and my own compatriots,' wonders B S Prakash.
'They were the service class: Cleaning, pouring, clearing, wiping, sweeping and getting rid of the rubbish.'
All four persons, who had arrived here from abroad in the last few days and were suspected to be suffering from H1N1 flu, have tested negative for the virus.
Three persons, including an NRI from Canada, were being checked on Monday for suspected H1N1 flu after they complained of fever and other symptoms even as people were screened at airports across the country for the deadly virus that has hit the US, Europe and Latin America.
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