Pilot

NEW DELHI: Three days after an Air India Express pilot allegedly assaulted a passenger at IGI Airport’s Terminal 1, Delhi Police received cross complaints from both. It registered a case based on the complaints of the flyer, Ankit Dewan, under sections 115 (voluntarily causing hurt), 126 (wrongful restraint) and 351 (criminal intimidation) of BNS on Monday.The complaint of the pilot is under...

NEW DELHI: Air India Express grounded a senior pilot rostered for duty on Friday after he allegedly assaulted a passenger in front of his family at Delhi airport's T1 over the latter being allowed to use a security-check lane where aircraft crew and other staff supposedly get priority.Passenger Ankit Dewan accused Captain Virender Sejwal, en route to Bengaluru by IndiGo to join duty, of leaving him...

CHENNAI: IIT Madras Pravartak Technologies Foundation is offering training in new age skills such as generative AI, prompt engineering, data analytics, machine learning and drone pilot training for freshers.Each course will have 30 to 50 students in a batch. Duration of these programmes will be from four weeks to eight weeks. Candidates who come out of colleges and employees with less than five years of...

BENGALURU: A 20-year-old college student has alleged that she was harassed by an off-duty pilot on an Akasa Air flight from Bengaluru to Pune and her complaint to the flight attendant and the airline failed to elicit any action. The flyer alleged that the pilot forced her into switching seats and moving close to him and offered her the 'alcoholic drink' he was consuming.Akasa Air said it investigated...

NEW DELHI: The United States mission to India has reached and surpassed its goal to process one million non-immigrant visa applications in 2023, according to a press release by the US Embassy in New Delhi. The mission has already surpassed the total number of cases processed in 2022 and is processing almost 20% more applications than in pre-pandemic 2019. The mission has also implemented strategies to...