IndiGo crisis: Rs 827 crore refunds, 1,800+ flights operated; slow recovery explained in key numbers

Chaos amid Indigo flight cancellations NEW DELHI: India’s largest airline IndiGo is scrambling to restore stability after a week of unprecedented operational chaos sparked by the rollout of revised Flight Duty Time Limitations (FDTL) for pilots. The disruption, which began on December 2, quickly snowballed into one of the worst aviation meltdowns the country has…

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Digital dominance: UPI tops global real-time payments with 49% share; govt tells Lok Sabha

India’s Unified Payments Interface (UPI) has been recognised as the world’s largest retail real-time payment system by transaction volume, accounting for nearly half of all such transactions globally, the government told Parliament on Monday.Citing an International Monetary Fund (IMF) report titled ‘Growing Retail Digital Payments (The Value of Interoperability)’ dated June 2025, the government said…

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AI expansion: IBM snaps up Confluent in $11-billion deal; data streaming seen as key to faster AI deployment

IBM on Monday announced a major acquisition to strengthen its artificial intelligence capabilities, agreeing to buy data streaming platform Confluent in a cash deal valued at $11 billion.The US technology major said it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire all issued and outstanding common stock of Confluent Inc. for $31 per share in cash,…

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‘Significant lapses in planning’: Moody’s slams IndiGo; terms flight disruptions ‘oversight’

Credit rating agency Moody’s has flagged IndiGo’s recent flight disruptions as credit negative, saying the airline failed to adequately plan for aviation regulations that had been known well in advance. The rating agency said the large-scale cancellations and delays point to significant lapses in planning and operational oversight, even though the revised Flight Duty Time…

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Nepal Charges Chinese Construction Firm for Corruption Over Airport

Nepal’s anti-graft watchdog has charged 55 people, including five former government ministers with corruption, accusing them and a Chinese state-owned company of inflating the construction costs of an international airport in Pokhara, the country’s second-biggest city. After a monthslong probe, the Nepali authorities said on Sunday that executives of China CAMC Engineering Company, the construction…

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