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India on Thursday asked Canada to take action against anti-India elements operating from its soil. The comments by External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal came when asked about reports that Canada has charged two persons for threatening on social media to kill Prime Minister Justin Trudeau but such actions are missing against those threatening Indian leaders and diplomats.

Southwest Airlines will soon assign seats on flights and sell some with extra legroom, making sweeping changes in a bid to broaden its appeal to passengers and boost revenue. The plans, announced Thursday, also come as it fends off an activist investor pushing for an overhaul of the airline’s leadership and operating strategy. Open seating has been a hallmark of Southwest flights since the carrier got its start over 50 years ago.

Aviation Minister Ram Mohan Naidu Kinjarapu on Thursday promised to conduct an inquiry into allegations of abrupt fare hike when MPs try to book tickets on Air Vistara airline, following complaints by MPs and a nudge by Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla. Raising the issue during Question Hour in Lok Sabha through a supplementary question, DMK member Dayanidhi Maran alleged that whenever he tries to book ticket on Air Vistara for the Chennai-Delhi route, initially it shows a price in the range of around Rs 25,000.

Air India Express, a subsidiary of Tata owned Air India on Thursday announced that it has expanded its network to Tripura. It will introduce daily direct flights connecting Agartala to Guwahati, Delhi and Kolkata from September 1, said the airline in a press release. Tripura will be the airline’s 46th destination.

A plane has crashed just after taking off from Nepal’s capital, killing 18 people and injuring a pilot who was the lone survivor

The Justice Department has filed an agreement in which Boeing will plead guilty to a fraud charge for misleading regulators who approved the 737 Max jetliner before two of the planes crashed, killing 346 people

The chief executive of Delta Air Lines expects flight cancellations and delays that resulted from a global technology breakdown last week to be resolved by Thursday

A Nepali passenger plane taking off from capital Kathmandu crashed and caught on fire Wednesday, killing nearly everyone on board, officials said. (Credit: Reuters)

Fortune 500 companies, excluding Microsoft, will face $5.4 billion in financial losses from the recent CrowdStrike outage, insurer Parametrix said on Wednesday.

Matt Hertzog spends 50 hours a week playing Xbox. That makes the 37-year-old part of a key target market for big financial firms. Banks are seeking out millennial and Gen Z customers in the $57 billion-a-year videogame industry.

Saurya Airlines plane crash at Kathmandu's Tribhuvan International Airport resulted in the deaths of 18 individuals. The incident occurred as the aircraft, carrying 19 people, caught fire shortly after skidding off the runway. The dramatic event was captured on video and shared on social media, though the authenticity of the footage remains unverified. Other footage displayed rescue workers sifting through the burned wreckage scattered across green fields, with bodies being transported to ambulances on stretchers as local residents observed. Officials reported that the airport was temporarily closed.

Pilots at Ireland’s national airline, Aer Lingus, have voted to accept a pay increase that ends a labor dispute that led to the cancellation of hundreds of flights

Southwest Airlines is under increased scrutiny by federal safety officials

U.S. airline regulators have opened an investigation into Delta Air Lines, which is still struggling to restore operations on Tuesday, more than four full days after a faulty software update caused technological havoc worldwide and disrupted global air...

Air India Express continued its network expansion, connecting Bengaluru to Abu Dhabi with its first direct international service from India's IT capital on Tuesday, officials said. With over 200 weekly flights, Bengaluru is the largest station for Air India Express, they said. In a statement, the airline said, «With the launch of the Bengaluru-Abu Dhabi flight, guests from cities such as Ayodhya, Bagdogra, Bhubaneswar, Chennai, Goa, Guwahati, Gwalior, Hyderabad, Indore, Jaipur, Kolkata, Lucknow, Pune, Ranchi, Varanasi, and Visakhapatnam now have the option to connect conveniently to Abu Dhabi through one-stop itineraries via Bengaluru.» Air India Express operates direct flights connecting Abu Dhabi to Bengaluru, Kannur, Kochi, Kozhikode, Mangaluru, Mumbai, Thiruvananthapuram, and Tiruchirappalli and connects 17 Indian cities to Abu Dhabi via convenient one-stop itineraries, it added.

U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, dogs that have spent the prior six months only in dog rabies-free or low-risk rabies countries, such as Canada, will now be able to enter with a CDC import form online submission receipt as acceptable documentation.This form can be filled out on the day of travel and the receipt can be shown to airlines and border officials as a printed copy or by phone.

Heathrow Airport, JFK, and many other airports in United States and Europe were massively affected over the past few das due to the global IT outage, that rendered Microsoft applications and services inaccessible. A Microsoft CrowdStrike which was ascertained to be the reason behind this, led to thousands of passengers being stranded at airports and had to wait for their flights as some got delayed, rescheduled, or even cancelled.

Federal officials are investigating an incident in which a Southwest Airlines jet flew as low as 150 feet over water while it was still about 5 miles from its intended landing spot in Tampa, Florida

Niagara County Sheriff’s Office said. The plane crashed in Youngstown, N.Y., about 24 kilometres from Niagara Falls.After an initial investigation, police determined that Georger had released all the skydivers on the plane and was heading back to land when she crashed.

Airlines, banks, hospitals and other risk-averse organizations around the world chose cybersecurity company CrowdStrike to protect their computer systems from hackers and data breaches