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Faced with a chronic shortage of truck drivers, logistics firm Deutsche Post DHL Group is trialling a new scheme to get more people behind the wheel so that it can keep goods flowing across Europe, especially at peak times like Christmas. A lack of...

RailWire Wi-Fi by RailTel is now live at 1,600 railway stations across the country, with Santa Cruz railway station in Mumbai becoming the 1,600th station to become a RailWire Wi-Fi zone, Western Railway said on Wednesday. RailTel Corporation, a ‘Mini Ratna (category-I)’ PSU, is...

Lessors to Jet Airways applied to the Directorate-General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) to de-register more aircraft leased to the beleaguered airline. On Wednesday, lessors applied to de-register 13 aircraft of the Boeing 737-700 and 800 series. Fly Aircraft Holdings Nineteen Ltd, Wells Fargo Trust...

Crisis for Jet Airways deepened on Wednesday as Indian Oil Corporation Ltd (IOCL) stopped the supply of aviation turbine fuel (ATF) for the debt-strapped airline but then resumed it after a few hours. An IOCL spokesperson confirmed that the ATF supply for the airline was stopped for some...

For Naresh Goyal, stepping down from the chairmanship of the company he created was an emotional moment. But he has no regrets and considers the circumstances under which he has had to step down as an opportunity to “turn the page, ready to fly...

Naresh Goyal’s decision to step down from the board of Jet Airways could not have been an easy one for him. Rumours had been rife for a while that Goyal would step down soon. However, there were an equal number which maintained that he...

As the Indian Railways look to improve its services without spending much, Indian Railway Station Development Corporation (IRSDC) will modernise the stations capable of fetching more money as reckoned by the Boston Consulting Group. Broadly, the move involves letting third parties raise funds by...

Cunard's flagship Queen Mary 2, the world's largest ocean cruise liner, a Bermuda flag cruise called at the Chennai port on Sunday with 2,258 passengers and 1,255 crew on board. Of these, 29 passengers embarked and 74 passengers disembarked. The luxury cruise liner arrived...

The Ethiopian Air Boeing 737 Max crash had similarities to the Lion Air plane that went down off the coast of Indonesia about five months ago, the nation’s transport minister said, as scrutiny of one of the aircraft’s flight control systems continued to build....

Jet Airways has defaulted payment of interest to its debenture holders even as lessors grounded four more aircraft of the airline. On Monday, in a filing on BSE, the debt-strapped airline said that it had interest payment due on March 19 towards the debenture...