Today, Mumbai’s Taj Mahal Palace is known as one of India’s most iconic luxury hotels. Over the years, it has welcomed royalty, world leaders and celebrities from across the globe. But during World War I, the grand hotel took on a very different role; it was transformed into a 600-bed military hospital to care for…
Gandhinagar: US-based multinational technology conglomerate Meta has put Gujarat on its data centre map, showing interest in setting up a 168-MW data centre in the state. Even before the ink has dried on Gujarat’s new data centre policy announced on Thursday, the state has received investment intent worth an estimated Rs 8.5 lakh crore.Some of…
Kolkata: The Bengal government is working on a new industrial policy aimed at attracting fresh investments and addressing key challenges that have impeded industrialisation in the state for last couple of decades, commerce and industry minister Tapas Roy said on Wednesday.The proposed policy is expected to focus on improving the ease of doing business, facilitating…
New Delhi: Constrained supply struggling to cope with exploding demand has long been the prevalent theme for critical infrastructure in India, across sectors. Additional capacity becomes ready long after the existing one has got saturated and is bursting at the seams. Challenges of this scenario are well known to desi consumers, who have been at…
It’s been one year since Air India’s flight 171 crashed in Ahmedabad. It’s sole survivor, Viswashkumar Ramesh, is still battling demons from the tragedy, having lost his younger brother Ajay in one of Ahmedabad’s worst aviation disasters By Naomi CantonA year after limping out shell-shocked from the AI 171 plane with towering flames and black…
THE LAST SELFIE: Dr Prateek Joshi, his wife, Dr Komi Vyas, and their children – daughter Miraya and sons Pradyut and Nakul AHMEDABAD: The haze of unanswered questions has not been cleared even on the first anniversary of one of the deadliest aviation disasters in history. For Parth Patel of Anand, June 12 is not…
Commercial flight operations from NIA set to start on June 15 New Delhi: Noida International Airport (NIA) will begin operations next Monday with one fewer launch airline as Air India Express has indefinitely postponed its plans to have flights from there. The new airport will come to life with IndiGo flights from June 15, followed…
2 min readUpdated: Jun 16, 2025 03:05 PM IST Air India has discontinued the operation of its full-service carrier at the Imphal International Airport from June 15, but the airline’s low-cost subsidiary AI Express will continue services here, AAI officials said on Monday. The decision was part of the airline’s “long-standing and pre-planned” strategy, they…
The Tata group is exploring the possibility of a major revamp of Air India. The group is reportedly in discussions with global consulting firm McKinsey & Company to lead a comprehensive overhaul of the airline, which is currently grappling with one of the most severe crises in its recent history. A top Tata Sons official…
4 min readNew DelhiUpdated: Jun 19, 2025 08:58 AM IST Tata group airline Air India is reducing its international services on wide-body aircraft by 15 per cent till at least mid-July due to a combination of factors that include enhanced safety inspections of its aircraft following last Thursday’s deadly crash of one of its Boeing…
