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The aviation minister’s often ill-considered decisions led to the airline’s losses ballooning and rivals overtaking it, resulting in a slew of corruption charges and investigations.

In February 2012, even as the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance government was going through a turbulent phase during its second term in power, Praful Patel, then heavy industries minister, hit the headlines over an alleged bribery scandal in Canada during his seven-year stint as the civil aviation minister between 2004 and 2011.
The Bharatiya Janata Party, which happily welcomed Patel as an ally in July 2023 after he ditched his mentor and head of the Nationalist Congress Party, Sharad Pawar, had at that time vociferously demanded a special probe into allegations that Patel had received a kickback from a Canadian …
As the low-cost carrier pushes through a compensation overhaul, the absence of a CEO is complicating a delicate moment.
The two new chief executives at Air India and IndiGo come with contrasting reputations but face the same challenge—do their predecessors one better.
The Tata Group’s silence and absence from Ahmedabad on the first anniversary of India’s worst air disaster risks putting a dent in its much-vaunted value system.