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DGCA slaps Rs 10L fine on Go Air for leaving behind 55 passengers at B'luru airport
On January 9, a Go Air flight on the Bengaluru-Delhi route took off leaving behind 55 passengers in the passenger coach at the Bengaluru airport. The aviation regulator had issued a show-cause notice to the Accountable Manager of Go First, asking as to why enforcement action should not be taken against them for dereliction of their regulatory obligations.
Aadhaar e-KYC transactions up 18.53% in Q3 of FY 2022-23
In December alone, 32.49 crore e-KYC transactions were carried out using Aadhaar, over 13 per cent more than the previous month. The Aadhaar e-KYC service is increasingly playing an important role for banking and non-banking financial services by providing transparent and improved customer experience, and helping in the ease of doing business.
Germans gloomy about country's economic prospects: Survey
The survey conducted by the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) newspaper was published on Thursday, reports Xinhua news agency. Another survey conducted by the Allensbach Institute for Public Opinion Research (IfD) found that 14 per cent of the respondents thought that Germany would emerge stronger from the crises of the past few years.
State Bank of Pakistan's forex reserves fall by $923 million
During the week ending on January 20, the total foreign exchange reserves of the Pakistani central bank fell to around $3.67 billion, the central bank said in a statement on Thursday night. The decrease was "due to external debt repayments", Xinhua news agency quoted the statement as saying. Net foreign reserves held by commercial banks came at $5.77 billion, it said.
Core consumer prices in Tokyo reach 41-yr high in Jan
According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, the core consumer price index (CPI), excluding volatile fresh food items, for the capital city increased 4.3 per cent, reports Xinhua news agency. Core CPI for Tokyo is a barometer of nationwide inflation in the coming months, and January's reading was the eighth straight month it had topped the Bank of Japan's 2-per cent inflation target.
Don't involve lawyers', SC on Lalit Modi's post against former AG Mukul Rohatgi
Senior advocate Kapil Sibal submitted before a bench comprising justices Sanjiv Khanna and M. M. Sundresh that there was an undertaking that there will be no social media comments. Citing a social media post by Modi against Rohatgi, Sibal said, "We have the URLs... it is being breached". Senior advocate Harish Salve, representing Lalit Modi, said he will show that the undertaking has not been breached.
Air India finalising 'historic order' of new aircraft: CEO
"Even as we work on improving Air India, we have not shied away from other ambitious actions, such as merging Air India Express with Air Asia, or Vistara with Air India, or kicking off the establishment of a new InfoTech Centre, or an Aviation Academy. And that's not to mention our much talked-about short- and-medium term fleet expansion," he added.
Tech jobs still hot in US amid mass layoffs, finds report
According to data by job portal Indeed, the tech jobs in high demand are full-stack developers at the top spot, followed by data engineers, cloud engineers, senior product managers and back-end developers, among others. Almost half, about 44 per cent, of the top 25 were tech jobs in the US market, reported CNBC, citing the data.
Global smartphone shipments suffer biggest fall in holiday quarter
According to an IDC report, the Q4 2022 drop contributed to a steep 11.3 per cent decline for the entire year. The year 2022 ended with shipments of 1.21 billion units, which represents the lowest annual shipment total since 2013 due to significantly dampened consumer demand, inflation, and economic uncertainties.
`FY24 budget should be favourable to EV like the FY23 budget'
Like last year's Union Budget which was positive for the EV industry, this year too she expects it to favour the sector. "2022 was a significant year for the EV sector in India. The industry saw EVs outnumbering ICE (internal combustion engine) in the three-wheeler sector, a significant rise in sales of EVs, and the initiation of EV component manufacturing in the country," Motwani said.
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