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MUMBAI: Private carrier Air India on Monday commenced the commercial operations of its first wide-body A350 aircraft with a flight taking off for Chennai from the Mumbai airport. The 316-seater A350-900 aircraft has a three-class cabin configuration with 28 private business suites with full-flat beds, 24 premium economy and 264 economy seats. “Air India flight […]

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The private jet parking lots at airports near the city of Ayodhya are full and the shops have run out of gold-plated idols, as wealthy devotees prepare for the invite-only opening ceremony of one of Hinduism’s holiest temples. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Asia’s richest man Mukesh Ambani are among the 8,000 or so attendees […]

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Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Thursday sustained an online war of words with civil aviation minister Jyotiraditya Scinida over chaos at the Delhi airport due to fog-related flight delays, and told him that it is a pity that he has adopted the Narendra Modi-led government’s “uncaring attitude” since switching sides. In his fresh salvo at […]

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HYDERABAD: Airport Authority of India (AAI) plans to spend ₹5,000 crore annually on capital expenditure in the coming years with a strong pipeline of projects, AAI chairman Sanjeev Kumar said. While new terminals are being built and airside capacity is being expanded at various airports to handle extra flights, AAI is also working on a […]

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By Arun Srivastava In October last year at the Group of 20 summit in New Delhi, Narendra Modi had projected India under his rule as a rising diplomatic powerhouse and elicited sycophantic commentary on its growing confidence. While boasting of his image of a ‘Vishwa Guru’, Modi often ignores the bare fact that goodwill cannot […]

The post Maldives Crisis Exposes India’s Lack Of Diplomatic Wisdom, Wider Vision first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Dr Arun Mitra War is the most serious threat to public health with catastrophic effects on infrastructure and environment and accounts for more deaths & disability than many major diseases combined. It destroys families, communities and sometimes whole cultures. It channels limited resources away from health and other social needs. Any nuclear exchange can […]

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By Arun Kumar Shrivastav A lot has happened over Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s blissful walk on the sandy pristine beach of one of India’s least explored tourism destinations – Lakshadweep. Living among 1.40 billion people has its share of joys and perils. One of the most irritating problems that most Indians face is the lack […]

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NAGPUR: Union Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia on Friday said 75 new airports have been built in the last ten years as part of the Narendra Modi government’s vision to bring air travel within the reach of a vast number of common citizens and asserted the key sector was on the upswing and still holds […]

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By Girish Linganna The serial production of Russia’s new glide cluster bomb, Drel, is expected to commence before the year’s end. In light of this, it’s important to understand the characteristics of the Drel and assess whether it will be utilized in Russia’s ongoing special military operation. In Ukraine or in future elsewhere. Rostec, Russia’s […]

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Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Tuesday hit out at the Centre for denying the state an opportunity to take part in the tableau presentation during the Republic Day parade. The Chief Minister said the Centre denied Karnataka a tableau because there is a Congress government in the state. According to him, the proposals for tableaux […]

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Lakshadweep visit last week conjured up a debate on the internet after Maldives minister Abdulla Mahzoom Majid, in a social media post, claimed that India is shifting focus from the Maldives by promoting Lakshadweep as another tourist spot. “Recently, I had the opportunity to be among the people of Lakshadweep. I […]

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NEW DELHI: The airports at Hyderabad and Bengaluru have been ranked second and third among the top ten global airports in terms of operational performance and punctuality, according to a report released on Tuesday. In the 2023 On-Time Performance (OTP) Review prepared by aviation analytics firm Cirium, there are a total of three Indian airports […]

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NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid the foundation stone of important petroleum and natural gas projects worth more than Rs 9,000 crore on Tuesday. The two projects dedicated to the nation include Indian Oil Corporation Ltd’s (IOCL) 488-km-long natural gas pipeline from IP101 (Chengalpet) to IP 105 (Sayalkudi) section of Ennore-Thiruvallur-Bengaluru-Puducherry-Nagapattinam-Madurai-Tuticorin Pipeline, and Hindustan […]

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By Kalyani Shankar The grand Ram Temple in Ayodhya is all dressed up for the inauguration on January 22 by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. It is fulfilling a longstanding dream of the BJP and the Sangh Parivar. A Hindu mob destroyed the Babri Masjid in 1992, claiming it was built on an ancient Hindu temple […]

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Accusing the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of playing politics on the Ram Mandir, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar on Wednesday said he has not received an invitation for the ‘Pran Pratishtha Mahotsav’ for Ram Lalla in Uttar Pradesh’s Ayodhya to be held on January 22. “Don’t know if it (BJP) is using the […]

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Union minister Pralhad Joshi said on Wednesday that while he does not agree with violence, he did agree with the demand that shop signages in Karnataka should be predominantly in the local language. Speaking to NDTV hours after pro-Kannada groups went on a rampage in state capital Bengaluru, the MP from Dharwad questioned why shopkeepers […]

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An Airbus A340 carrying 276 passengers, mostly Indians, landed in Mumbai early this morning, following a four-day detention in France over suspected human trafficking allegations. The aircraft landed in Mumbai shortly after 4 am. It had taken off from Vatry airport near Paris around 2.30 pm local time. French authorities confirmed that 276 passengers had boarded […]

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By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Left Democratic Front (LDF) Government in Kerala has upped the ante against Governor Arif Mohammed Khan by seeking President Droupadi Murmu’s intervention in the crisis involving the Governor and the State government, at the root of which are Khan’s alleged gubernatorial excesses; the Governor is not even sparing varsities and […]

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French police have taken two men into custody a day after grounding a Nicaragua-bound plane carrying over 300 Indian passengers over suspected “human trafficking”. Indian authorities have also reached the spot and are investigating the situation. France grounded a charter flight headed to Nicaragua carrying 303 Indian passengers on Friday to conduct a judicial investigation. […]

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