Air India bans peeing incident accused for 4 months

Air India on Thursday said it has imposed a four-month flying ban on Shankar Mishra, who is accused of urinating on a woman co-passenger onboard a flight in November last year. IMAGE: Shankar......

DGCA issues show cause notice to Air India over 'peeing' incidents

Aviation regulator Directorate General of Civil Aviation has issued a show cause notice to Air India after finding the airline's response as "lackadaisical and delayed" regarding two of passenger......

Mumbai jeweller first to be put on no-fly list for hijack scare

He was also the first to be booked under the stringent Anti-Hijacking Act which had replaced the vintage law of 1982. A Mumbai-based jeweller, who created a hijack scare on board a Jet Airways......

Obtaining justice via consumer courts is difficult

'Some cases do not get a single hearing for 6 to 8 months, while some have been pending for as long as 8 years.'Sanjay Kumar Singh reports. Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com The Consumer......

The wake-up call that every consumer needs

Pending consumer dispute cases are at an all-time high. Sahil Makkar reports. Photograph: Adeel Halim /Reuters  Anuj Vyas, a resident of Thane in Maharashtra, had to run from pillar to......

E-com complaints: Consumers have more power now

Consumers can easily file cases against e-tailers now.Tinesh Bhasin reports. While there has been a phenomenal rise in e-commerce, redressal of complaints was always been a sore area. For example,......

Fight your own consumer case and save money

You can save Rs 35,000-Rs 50,000 in lawyer’s fee at a district forum and several lakhs at the National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission. The number of consumers fighting their own cases......