Indian airlines asked to inspect Boeing 737-8 Max planes' emergency exits

Aviation watchdog, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), on Saturday directed domestic airlines to immediately carry out inspection of emergency exits of all Boeing 737-8 Max planes in......

Plane door blows out mid-air, forces emergency landing

An Alaska Airlines flight, carrying 171 passengers and 6 crew members, made an emergency landing on Saturday after one of its doors blew open mid-air. Photographs: X Videos taken by passengers......

Tell passengers if flight carrying a martyr's body: DGCA to airlines

But the regulator has dropped the proposal of asking flyers to maintain 30 seconds of silence.Arindam Majumder reports.   IMAGE: General Bipin Rawat, the chief of the army staff, pays homage......

Alaska Air employee 'steals plane', crashes it in Seattle

An Alaska Airlines plane has crashed in Puget Sound after it took off without authorisation from Seattle-Tacoma International Airport on Friday night, officials said. An airline employee, who......

Why Indigo is fastest growing airline on the planet

'IndiGo 2018 is a harsh, ultra-lean, mean, zero asset, fighting machine with aspirations of taking on the global long-haul low-cost market.' Photograph: Vivek Prakash/Reuters Mark Martin is the......

The world's 10 richest cities

European cities have emerged as the world's richest and most expensive places. By comparison, Indian cities are amongst the world's least expensive. New Delhi and Mumbai are among the least......

The top 10 challenges for India

India has huge potential for growth. But having the potential and actually achieving it are two different things. And this is where the biggest challenges lie for India. In its Global Economics......

The secret behind Hero Honda's success

On the first of every month, two-wheeler companies disclose their sale figures for the previous month. May 1 was no different.  Hero Honda, the country's largest and most valuable two-wheeler......