Saturday, October 26, 2013

More than 50 years after Tata Airlines was renamed Air India Ltd. and nationalised, the Tata Group will bid for a stake in the national carrier

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The top headlines today are of the PMO handing over key 'coal block allocation' files to the CBI. The Asian Age reports that files related to allocation of the Talabira II and III coal blocks in Orissa to Kumar Mangalam Birla's private firm Hindalco in 2005, were, yesterday, handed over to the CBI.
Hindustan Times reports that more than 50 years after Tata Airlines was renamed Air India Ltd. and Nationalised, the Tata Group will bid for a stake in the national carrier if the govt went ahead with privatization of the Airline.
According to diplomatic sources, India will still have to bear with China's policy of issuing stapled visas for people from Arunachal Pradesh, informs the Hindu. China, however, had dropped its practice of giving stapled visas to people from J&K.
Hindustan Times, while quoting J&K Chief Minister Omar Abdulla, writes 'ceasefire violations cannot happen without the consent of Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, and that talks of friendship and strong relations with India, recently made by Nawaz Sharif were of no use as such LoC violations still continue.
And finally, for lovers of the old-world Steam Engine, The Pioneer writes that one of the last surviving steam locomotives, Akbar - has been renovated at the Amritsar workshop and is now ready for hauling coaches between New Delhi and Alwar in Rajasthan from Saturday.

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