Unhappy and helpless - that's how the commuters felt after Delhi Metro announced hike in its fares Wednesday. As the hike came just a week after the state-run city bus service increased fares, a number of people said it was a double whammy and will hit them hard.Delhi Metro's 36 percent hike in fares has come after a gap of five years and will be effective from Friday. It follows increases in state-run...
|
Leading private airlines Jet Airways and Kingfisher hiked their fuel surcharge on domestic routes from Friday following the hike in aviation turbine fuel prices last week. Both Jet Airways and Kingfisher hiked the fuel surcharge further from current levels by Rs 100 (for distances below 1000 kms) and by Rs 200 (for distances above 1000 kms).
This newspaper had reported last week that air...
|
and helpless - that's how the commuters felt after Delhi Metro announced hike in its fares Wednesday. As the hike came just a week after the state-run city bus service increased fares, a number of people said it was a double whammy and will hit them hard.Delhi Metro's 36 percent hike in fares has come after a gap of five years and will be effective from Friday. It follows increases in state-run Delhi...
|
Railway Passengers Association (RPA) has registered its protest against the decision of the Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation to hike the price of food items sold through its restaurants at railway stations. RPA president S. Ulhaskumar, in a statement here on Tuesday, called upon the authorities to withdraw the hike. The hike does not come with a guarantee on the quality of food sold....
|
Thestate government has passed a resolution hiking the salary of government medicalcollege teachers across all categories. State medical education and researchsecretary Milind Mhaiskar confirmedthis.Ifall the incentives are taken into account, the total salary of a lecturer hasbeen hiked to Rs 50,000 a month, that of an assistant professor to Rs 70,000. Aprofessor will now get Rs 1lakh."Wehave been...
|
said the state government had grant the demands of doctors in various categories for a hike in their monthly allowance.He told reporters here the state government had agreed to hike the allowance to the doctors despite the flood havock the state was facing presently as it considered health as an important sector for the benefit of the people.The government had agreed to increase their rural allowance...
|
With the ministry of petroleum and natural gas proposing a hike of 33% in the price of natural gas being sold under administered price mechanism (APM), power producers have started calculating the amount of increase in the fuel cost that they would need to pass on to customers.The ministry wants the APM gas price to be increased to $2.4 per mmBtu from $1.83 per mmBtu now.RS Sharma, chairman and managing...
|
You get a very different perspective on Hong Kong if you get out of the city — and doing so is surprisingly easy. Indeed, hiking is a very popular pastime for Hong Kongers who want to substitute a bit of real jungle for the concrete.And late September through December is the best season for hiking because autumn saps the humidity out of the air, and the skies are typically blue, relatively pollution-free,...
|
After the hike in Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) and Metro feeder buses, the transport fee of your child is also set to go up.The DTC has decided to hike the cost of the fare they charge from schools from Rs 25 per km to Rs 40 per km for buses ferrying students.The move was expected to hit parents whose children attend the less expensive schools and rely on DTC buses as a safe and cheap transport...
|
Correspondents
New Delhi
Oct. 31: Airfares may rise following a nine per cent increase in aviation turbine fuel prices by state-owned oil companies, even though airlines say that it too early to react to the hike and that they will wait and watch. An airline official speaking on condition of anonymity said that the hike in ATF was steep and that airlines may have...
|
