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The Central Information Commission has directed the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) to make public the information about travel bills relating to Air India generated on foreign trips undertaken by the nation’s Prime Ministers for financial year 2013-14 to 2016-2017. Manmohan Singh was India’s Prime Minister from 2004 to 2014. He was succeeded by Narendra Modi on May 26, 2014. Chief Information Commissioner Radha Krishna Mathur directed the MEA to share the information with RTI applicant Commodore Lokesh K Batra within 30 days. While Commodore Batra stressed that the information should be made public since Air India is a cash-strapped airline and delay in settling these bills would also include sizeable interest figures, which needs to be paid at the expense of tax payers’ money, the MEA pleaded exemption saying the information sought by him is scattered in various files and the collation would involve diversion of its resources, thereby affecting its normal … [Read more...] about Disclose Details Of Air India Bills For PM’s Foreign Trips From FY 2013-14: CIC Tells MEA [Read Order]

Oct 26, 7:51 AM EDT Newsletter Signup BusinessTechnologyWorldNationalMedia & CultureOpinionSportsLuxury World By Pritha Paul @ZiggyZina143 10/26/18 AT 7:21 AM A flight passenger aboard an Air India flight complained of being bitten by bed bugs recently.Ravi Kumar had the terrible experience while traveling on a domestic flight of the airline from Delhi to Bengaluru, India, on Oct. 17. He said his ordeal started shortly after he boarded the flight at 5:40 p.m. local time (10:30 a.m. EDT).“I felt itchy and was scratching throughout the flight. I thought there were mosquitoes on board. I didn’t realize that I was bitten by bed bugs till I reached home and removed my shirt,” Ravi told local daily The Times Of India. “Though I was uncomfortable throughout, I didn’t complain to the cabin crew. It didn’t occur to me that I was being bitten by bugs.”Despite going through a less-than-pleasant experience of flying with Air India, the … [Read more...] about Beg Bugs On Plane Bite Flight Passenger, Leaves Rashes On Body [Report]

Nov 12, 5:48 AM EST Newsletter Signup BusinessTechnologyWorldNationalMedia & CultureOpinionSportsLuxury World By Pritha Paul @ZiggyZina143 11/12/18 AT 5:48 AM An Air India flight was called back to the airport just a few minutes following takeoff on Sunday after it was discovered that one of the plane’s pilots had skipped the breathalyzer test.Air India flight AI-332 departed from the Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi at 2:08 p.m. local time (3:38 a.m. EST) – 23 minutes behind schedule – and was on its way to Bangkok, Thailand when it was called back.“The flight was scheduled for a 1.45 p.m. [local time, 3:15 a.m. EST] departure and the pilots should have undergone the Breathalyzer test about an hour earlier. While the commander took the test, the first officer skipped it,” one source close to the matter told local daily Times Of India. "Before the departure, the commander asked whether the copilot had carried out … [Read more...] about Pilot Skipped Breathalyzer Test Before Flight, Plane Called Back After Takeoff

In 2012, Kingfisher Airlines, one of India's major airlines, ceased operations. India and its courts delayed responses to the request of lessors and financiers to deregister and repossess their aircraft, upsetting the market for aircraft leasing and financing in India. The Cape Town Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment (Cape Town Treaty), designed to address such situations, could not protect the lessors and financiers because India ratified the treaty after the delivery of the aircraft at issue. Many commentators believe that India's response to the Kingfisher case foreshadows India's responses to future airline bankruptcies within the scope of the Cape Town Treaty, and requests for aircraft deregistration and repossession.Although India ratified the Cape Town Treaty in 2008, it has not passed legislation to give the treaty effect. Thus, aircraft lessors and financiers are still left to the mercy of local laws. Further, the issue of aircraft repossession is … [Read more...] about Aircraft Deregistration and Repossession in India: Lessons from Kingfisher and SpiceJet

Share Tweet Plus One Pin It Email Print By: Gitanjali Kapur September 2, 2018 11:09 am Change Font Size The principle of unjust enrichment is an underlining principle behind a plethora of daily orders and judgments of our judiciary. Though the principle may not be tagged specifically by our Courts in each case, its adaptation has found wide usage in our judiciary to bring justice and uphold the pillars of equity. What is the principle of Unjust Enrichment? A person who has obtained a benefit at the expense of another should be liable to restitute the other from whom he has gained. This field of law is popularly known as the Law of restitution. Essentials of a claim of Unjust Enrichment: The defendant was enriched At the claimants expense There was no legal valid basis for the defendants receipt of the benefit as the same was not a gift There exists no defense to the claim Few simple examples to understand the Law of Restitution The liability under the law of … [Read more...] about Exploring The Law Of Unjust Enrichment In India