Dubai: Airbus signed a $49.5 billion deal on Wednesday to sell 430 airplanes to the Phoenix-based private equity firm that owns Frontier Airlines, striking the European aerospace company’s biggest deal ever at the Dubai Air Show.

The deal with Indigo Partners will see 273 A320neos and 157 A321neos split up among

Kolkata: Indian cricket captain Virat Kohli on Wednesday left it to the fans to decide if there has been an overkill of India-Sri Lanka contests in recent years, something that had led to dwindling interest in a cicket crazy nation.

India played an away Test series against islanders in 2015 followed by a short lim

New Deli: Environment Minister Harsh Vardhan today said that the measures to mitigate air pollution will be pursued “vigorously” even as the weather in the Delhi-NCR has improved and particulate matter levels have declined.

He said major hot-spots in the national capital have already been identified for loc

Suri (West Bengal): Trinamool Congress leader Anubrata Mondol today alleged that Leader of Opposition assembly Abdul Mannan and CPI-M leader Bikash Bhattacharya were trying to “play dirty politics” with land near Bolpur where the state government has decided to set up a university and housing project.

He al

Fuzhou (China): Star Indian shuttler Saina Nehwal defeated the United States’ Beiwen Zhang to advance to the second round of the China Open World Superseries Premier here on Wednesday.

The Hyderabadi shuttler defeated Zhang 21-12, 21-13 in a match which lasted around 30 minutes.

In both the games, Saina

Belagavi (Karnataka): The Karnataka Legislative Assembly today passed a bill repealing 142 enactments that have either undergone consequential amendments or cannot be enforced.

The Karnataka Repealing of Certain Enactments Bill, 2017 said it was considered necessary to repeal the amendment acts from 2012 to 2015 and also laws which are

It was sweet victory for West Bengal after a bitter feud over one of India’s most celebrated desserts. On Tuesday, the Geographical Indications (GI) registry announced that the rosogolla (also known as rasgulla) originated in the state, and not in Odisha.

“This has been settled under the GI Act that authenticates products t

Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao on Wednesday slammed all those critics who predicted ‘dooms day’, if the new Telangana state is formed.

At a function organized to felicitate the outgoing and first Director-General of Police of new Telangana state, Anurag Sharma, the Chief Minister gives full credit to the former for his

Under attack from the opposition for not spending a single penny in 2017 out of the Rs 787 crore collected as environment cess, the Delhi government on Wednesday said it has prepared a one-year short-term plan to tackle air pollution, an official said.

A Delhi government official said Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal held a meeting with

Los Angeles: Authorities say a series of shootings in rural Northern California left five people dead, including the shooter, and that two children were among the wounded.

Tehama County Assistant Sheriff Phil Johnston says one child was shot at a school Tuesday and another was shot while riding in a pickup truck with a