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IndiGo on Thursday said it has partnered with Garuda Aviation Academy to train fresh pilots as future junior first officers, under the airline's Cadet Pilot Program. The 21-month course includes a three-month ground schooling at Garuda Aviation Academy training centre in Gurugram, followed by 12 months of training at 43 Air School in South Africa, which has a track record of training over 6,000 ab-initio pilots over the years, IndiGo said. Over the last 13 years, the airline said, it has formed eight such partnerships and inducted over 1,000 pilots through these full training programmes, including commercial pilot licence and A320 type rating, the airline said. These courses start right from cadet selection to induction into the airline as a pilot, according to the airline.

₹4,250 crore, directly or indirectly," Indus Towers' chief financial officer Vikas Poddar told analysts at JP Morgan prior to the stake sale. The comments were shared by the brokerage to clients in a note.On Wednesday, UK-based Vodafone Group Plc sold 18% stake sale in India's largest telecom tower provider for ₹15,300 crore.

Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Samrat Choudhary on Thursday vowed to challenge the Patna High Court order setting aside a hike in reservation for deprived castes from 50 per cent to 65 per cent. Choudhary, who is also the state BJP president, asserted his party was «fully in support» of reservations and the state government will move the Supreme Court «after due consultations with legal experts». «It was with the BJP's full support that the Nitish Kumar government ordered the caste survey and raised quotas for Dalits, tribals and backward classes,» said Choudhary, who became deputy CM in January this year after the return of Kumar to the NDA. «We believe that the reservation laws in Bihar were amended in accordance with provisions of the Constitution… states like Tamil Nadu, too, have 69 per cent quotas,» he said.

MUMBAI : With the Union Budget expected in the second half of July, mutual fund executives are hoping for measures in four key areas that can boost their sector and invigorate the economy. From 1 April 2023, debt mutual funds have not got the benefit of indexation on long-term capital gains. Such gains are taxed at the slab rate of the investor.

Bank of England kept its main interest rate unchanged at a 16-year high of 5.25% on Thursday ahead of a July 4 election, but some policymakers said their decision not to cut rates was now «finely balanced». The BoE's Monetary Policy Committee voted 7-2 to keep rates on hold, in line with economists' expectations in a Reuters poll. Deputy Governor Dave Ramsden and external MPC member Swati Dhingra remained the only policymakers to support a cut to 5%.

NEW DELHI : Now is the right time to start filing your income tax return (ITR) for fiscal year 2023-24 (assessment year 2024-25), for which the window will remain open till 31 July. This is because your Annual Information Statement (AIS), which captures your income and TDS (tax deducted at source) details, must have been updated by now. You can verify these details by tallying them with Form 26AS and Form 16 provided by your employer.

Jeremy Allaire, CEO at the stablecoin issuer Circle, predicts that stablecoins will account for 10% of the global economy over the next 10 years.

TimesofIndia.com. He added, “Team India doesn't need any foreign coaches. They have plenty of options and talent. After Dravid, no one can be the best and bigger than Gautam Gambhir.

Snapchat Inc. will pay $15 million to settle a lawsuit brought by California’s civil rights agency

working moms across New York City, allows them to take paid break time to pump breast milk while at their jobs. Women employees who are enjoying motherhood, will get the additional perk of an entitled 30 min break time who need to pump breast milk while being at work. Pumping breast milk at jobs no more a hassle with new New York law

chips that fuel generative AI, do its clients, such as Microsoft and Alphabet (Google), have concrete monetisation plans for the technology? Two, Nvidia has left its much-bigger rival Intel far behind in both earnings and valuations. So, is it right now open to challenges to its temporary computing monopoly? The analogy to Cisco's rise during the dotcom boom is stark. For those of us who remember, the internet delivered, but not the company making the switches connecting it.

parametric insurance cover to protect them from these sudden losses due to heat can come into play. Parametric solutions are a type of insurance that covers the probability of a predefined event happening, instead of indemnifying the actual loss incurred. Last year, some 21,000 SEWA (Self-Employed Women's Association) workers, out of 2.9 mn members, were provided with an innovative heat insurance cover.

London Private Members' Clubs, seem to be moping about the incoming British PM — in opinion polls we still trust — lacking one credential: being a member of a club in the city he lives-works in. Thevoz mentions in an X post: 'As far as I can tell, Keir Starmer will be the first British Prime Minister since 1763 to not be (or have been) a member of one or more London private members' clubs....' Conservative and Labour PMs alike have been, we are told, members of social watering holes like the Athenaeum and Carlton, Churchill apparently finding time and energy to be a member of nine clubs.

of abandoning Hindutva. Thackeray had also asked whether the BJP's alliance with regional outfits Telugu Desam Party (TDP) and the Janata Dal (United) was organic.

₹30,000. What about the bloatware? You should be able to disable most Xiaomi apps and even then, some amount of bloatware is not a high price to pay for a product that can perform as well, if not better, than some iPads for less than half the price.With the Xiaomi Pad 6, you get the superfast Qualcomm Snapdragon 870 processor and the HyperOS experience.

NHRC has issued a notice to the Centre over a report alleging "anti-labour practices" at one of the warehouses of Amazon India in Haryana's Manesar, according to the proceedings of the case shared on the rights panel's website. The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has observed that the contents of the news report, if true, raises a serious issue of human rights of the workers in violation of the labour laws and the guidelines issued by the Union Ministry of Labour and Employment from time to time. The NHRC, in a statement, said that it has taken suo motu cognisance of the media report that at one of the warehouses of a multi-national company in Haryana's Manesar «a 24-year-old worker was asked to pledge that they would not take toilet or water breaks until they finished unloading packages from six trucks, each measuring 24 feet long, after their team's 30-minute tea break had ended». «A female employee at the Manesar warehouse reportedly stated that no restroom facilities are available on the working sites,» it added.

Som Group distillery and temporarily suspending the plant's manufacturing licences after the federal child rights agency found 59 children working at the site illegally. Police launched an investigation into Som after the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) last week found 39 boys and 20 girls working at the factory. The agency also released photos of children's hands it said showed burns due to contact with chemicals. «We have sent the police force to ensure there are no issues during the sealing process,» Vikas Kumar Shahwal, a senior Madhya Pradesh police official, told Reuters.

Labour Force Survey (PLFS) from quarterly urban unemployment data to monthly, and the quarterly release of the rural employment data, which is released annually at present. Revision of the base year of gross domestic product (GDP) and inflation is also being discussed, officials said. The ministry of statistics and programme implementation (MoSPI) is looking at ways to use technology to make the process more efficient and faster as it aims to reduce time lags and improve the frequency of data availability. “We are trying to reduce the time period between surveys…some can be made quarterly and monthly going ahead which are annual right now,” said Saurabh Garg, secretary, MoSPI at the data user workshop on Household Consumption Expenditure Surveys (HCES) for 2022-23 Wednesday. As per the survey, consumption inequality has declined over the last decade with the share of top 10% households in consumption declining.

Vision Pro 2 project and has communicated to suppliers about suspending further development.This shift underscores Apple's new direction towards capturing a broader market segment with an affordable AR headset offering. While specific pricing details for the upcoming budget-friendly Vision headset remain speculative, reports from GSM Arena indicate that Apple is aiming for a price point around USD 1,500.The economical version is expected to make certain compromises compared to the Pro model, potentially featuring a simplified headband, smaller speakers, and fewer cameras.

Mint. Watch This: Sudden Rise of Cybercrime in India: Mint Explains A dark pattern is a trick used in website or app design to make users do things they didn't plan to do, like signing up for unwanted subscriptions, buying extra items, or sharing personal information.

The European Union’s executive arm is criticizing France for running up excessive debt, a stinging rebuke at the height of the election campaign where President Emmanuel Macron is fighting off challenges of the extreme right and the left