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KOLKATA: IndiGo Airlines pilots have alleged that the flight cancellation and delay crisis that brought India’s aviation sector to a standstill was engineered to undermine the implementation of new safety norms and pressure govt into putting the revised Flight Duty Time Limitation (FDTL) rules in abeyance.They questioned how a shortage of just 65 captains and 59 co-pilots following the rollout of...

MUMBAI: In its recent report, UK’s migration advisory committee – which is the government’s independent advisory on immigration policy, has recommended abolishing the shortage occupation list (SOL).The SOL is the official list of skilled jobs that have been assessed by the committee to be in shortage. UK employers who hire overseas workers to fill in such shortage occupations, benefit from a lower...