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Indian Man Tries To Open Plane’s Emergency Door In Midair

An Indian man tried to open an emergency exit door on a packed AirAsia flight in midair, injuring fellow passengers and...

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IndiGo Says Eyeing Troubled Air India’s International Business

India's largest airline IndiGo confirmed its interest in snapping up the international operations of troubled state-run...

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India Eyes Sale of Its Debt-Laden Airline

New Delhi is hoping to privatise Air India to make the ailing national carrier more competitive, but experts say debts...

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Only the Brave Will Take On Air India, Says Billionaire

Indian billionaire Anand Mahindra said he was not brave enough to take on debt-laden Air India after the government...

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From China Coin-Thrower To Dirty Dancer

An 80-year-old Chinese woman delayed a domestic flight from Shanghai this week for nearly six hours after throwing...

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India Approves Plan To Sell Stake In State-Owned Air India

India's cabinet approved Wednesday plans to sell a stake in state-run Air India as the debt-saddled carrier struggles...

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India To Run Extra Eid Flights To Qatar Due To Embargo

India has asked two domestic carriers to run extra flights to Doha ahead of the Eid holiday to help citizens stranded...

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Former Indian Judge Arrested After 40 Days On the Run

A former judge who led police on a 40-day manhunt across India has been arrested and jailed on contempt charges after a...

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India Will Cooperate On Probe of National Carrier Deals

India's civil aviation ministry said Tuesday it would cooperate with a federal inquiry into alleged irregularities in...

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India Proposes No-Fly List of Disruptive Passengers

India on Friday announced plans to create a national no-fly list of unruly passengers, weeks after a controversial...

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India Overturns Flight Ban On Sandal-Whacking Politician Gaikwad

India on Friday overturned a travel ban on a controversial politician who attacked a flight steward with his sandal...

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Chaotic Scenes As Indian MP Resists Flight Ban In Parliament

An Indian politician who attacked a flight steward after being refused a business class seat caused uproar in...

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Indian Airline Bars Lawmaker After Shoe Attack

An Indian airline said Friday it had cancelled a booking by a Hindu nationalist lawmaker who repeatedly hit an Air...

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Indian MP Hit Flight Attendant 25 Times With His Slipper

An Indian MP has admitted hitting a flight attendant 25 times with his slipper during a row after he was given a seat...

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India MP Boasts of Beating Air Steward On Flight

An Indian MP beat an airline employee repeatedly with a slipper after being unable to get a business class seat on an...

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Indian MP Admits Hitting Air Steward 25 Times With Slipper

An Indian politician brazenly admitted on Thursday that he hit a steward on an Air India flight 25 times with his...

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Air India Claims Record With All-Female Round-World Flight

India's national airline claimed Monday to have set a new record with the first round-the-world flight staffed entirely...

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Canada Frees Air India Bomber Convicted of Killing 331 People In 1985

The only person convicted in the 1985 Air India bombings that killed 331 people is now free, Canada's parole board said...

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Canada Frees Air India Bomber

The only person convicted in the 1985 Air India bombings that killed 331 people is now free, Canada's parole board said...