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Swiss International Air in the black
SWISS International Airlines, set up two-and-a-half years back, has registered a profit for the first time. It made a gross profit of 20 million Swiss francs (around Rs 76 crore) in the third quarter of the current financial year. The General ...
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AI, Indian Airlines commence Haj flights
AIR India along with Indian Airlines has commenced Haj 2005 operations, with the operation of three flights from Srinagar to Jeddah on December 13. The airlines plans to transport more than 82,200 Haj pilgrims to Jeddah from 15 Indian stations ...
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SHIPPING
Kochi port operations likely to be affected on Monday — Stir in support of steamer watchmen
THE Kochi Port operations are likely to be affected on December 20 in view of the proposed mass blockade organised by various CITU unions in the port area demanding justice to steamer watchmen, who have been dislodged from employment. ...
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International box terminal at Kochi — Shipping Dept to seek CCEA's approval for revised terms
THE Department of Shipping will soon approach the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) seeking its approval for the revised terms recommended by the Cochin Port Trust for developing an international container transhipment terminal (ICTT) ...
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RAILWAYS
IRAS asked to source cheap funds for Rlys
THE Union Finance Minister, Mr P. Chidambaram, has advised the Indian Railway Accounts Service (IRAS) to adopt the role of financial advisors and treasury managers for sourcing the cheapest finances for the Railways. He held that IRAS should ...
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Rlys agrees to meet SAIL's demand for more wagons
THE Railways has agreed to meet the Steel Authority of India Ltd's increased demand for wagons in the remainder of the current fiscal, it is learnt. However, there is a rider: the detention of the wagons at the plant level has to be as low as ...
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Train accident, a human failure: Lalu
DESCRIBING Tuesday's Punjab train accident as a "human failure", the Railway Minister, Mr Lalu Prasad, today said the Station Masters of Bhangala and Mirthal stations had been suspended and FIRs lodged against them. Making a statement in ...
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