The 57-year-old has become the centre of attraction in Maha Kumbh Mela due to his height, which is a little more than three feet.
After Monday's hoarding crash in which at least 14 people died, he has been absconding, while a case under IPC section 304 (causing death by negligence) was registered against him at Pantnagar police station in the city.
Indian customers will have wider travel options as airlines introduce new flights from the end of March. While Malaysian Airlines and Turkish Airlines are resuming passenger flights to India after a gap of two years, Air France-KLM and Lufthansa Group will scale up their existing service in a graded manner in the summer schedule. Emirates, the largest foreign airline operating in India, too, is looking to restore its pre-Covid-19 schedule of 172 flights per week.
Due to the group's presence across multiple businesses, it is in a unique position in the aviation industry to bring the best of talents.
Jet's staff strength stands whittled down to around 4,000, with many former employees having joined airlines in India and abroad.
More than 25 aircraft of Jet Airways has been grounded by lessors due to non-payment of lease rentals. The airline, which started the winter schedule with 103 planes, is now down to 83.
Rediff reader Kiran Mestry, 49 from Mumbai tells us how her first salary changed her life.
A total of 3,696 allottees pertaining to group housing, commercial department, industrial department, institutional department and residential plots are defaulters.
The All India Railwaymen's Federation will march to Parliament during the monsoon session to expedite filling up of 200,000 vacancies, AIRF general secretary Shiv Gopal Misra said on Monday.
For Air India and Jet Airways, airspace closure over Pakistan would mean flights to US and Europe will have to take a longer route.
Talking to mediapersons in Hyderabad on Wednesday, A K Nizar, head of commercial department, Air Arabia, said that the airline launched in Hyderabad in October 2008, has been well received by passengers from city and adjoining regions. The airline enjoyed an average of 85 per cent seat factor for Hyderabad-Sharjah route for the month of January 2009.
Sunil Paliwal is managing director of Aavin, the highly successful milk cooperative of the Tamil Nadu government. He has worked with J Jayalalithaa for 12 years. He pays tribute to the departed leader.
With substantial number of employees having been with Jet Airways for around 20 years, getting another job is also not easy considering the age factor and the job market situation.
Vishnu Vithoba Desai, a traffic superintendent of Indian Airlines, was found dead along with his wife, daughter and their maid servant in his Vakola flat in the airline colony.
Long before he launched Paytm, Vijay Shankar Sharma, a 32 year old from Aligarh, embarked on his ambitious entrepreneurial journey.
Tamil Nadu says it's intriguing only BJP-ruled states top the list, while industrialised states are given a go-by.
A better system of operating central and state PSEs, and indeed all commercial activities of the government, would require eliminating the current system that oversees them.
It is time to take the sainthood away from Dr Manmohan Singh, says Sudhir Bisht.
Most airlines have fattened their profits, turned the corner, or cut their losses, except AirAsia India.
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