12/4/08

Kingfisher gets nod for 5 global routes

The government has allowed Kingfisher Airlines to operate daily services on various international sectors, including Mumbai-London, Chennai-Colombo and Mumbai-Singapore. The Vijay Mallya-owned Kingfisher currently flies between Bangalore-London, the only foreign route after it became eligible to fly internationally in August this year. “The government has granted permission to Kingfisher to operate daily services to Singapore, Hong Kong, Bangkok, Colombo and Dhaka with immediate effect. In our earlier interaction, the airline had showed its preparedness to operate to all these sectors,” a government official, who did not wish to be named, said....

Kim Sharma takes flak for national flag mess

Mumbai is still recovering from those dastardly terror attacks and this is definitely not the time to be playing around with emotions. But poor Kim Sharma seems to have messed up more than just her good PR - she pretty much killed the national flag!What is saffron, white and green took all sorts of colours on Kim`s shirt as she walked with protestors in Mumbai to express her anger against the terrorist attacks on November 26thand 27th. We could probably overlook this as an innocent oversight- but will the majority agree? Leave your comments below!...

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