Air Canada strike: Worldwide services hit as 700 flights grounded; 10,000 attendants walk off

Travellers wait in line for the next available agent at the Air Canada counter in Montreal-Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport in Dorval, Quebec. (Picture credit: AP) Air Canada has suspended all operations after more than 10,000 of its flight attendants walked off the job early Saturday, plunging peak summer travel into chaos and leaving passengers…

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GST reforms: CII hails PM Modi’s move; calls it a ‘visionary’ step for businesses

The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) has hailed the forthcoming reforms to the Goods and Services Tax (GST) announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his Independence Day address from the Red Fort.Chandrajit Banerjee, director general of CII, said in a statement, “On behalf of Indian industry, CII warmly welcomes the Hon’ble Prime Minister’s visionary…

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‘Much required’: PM EAC member Sanjeev Sanyal welcomes S&P rating upgrade; says India still ‘underrated’

File photo: PM EAC member Sanjeev Sanyal (Picture credit: ANI) India’s sovereign credit upgrade from S&P Global Ratings was “much required” but still leaves the country rated below its true economic strength, Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister (EAC-PM) member Sanjeev Sanyal said.Reacting to S&P’s move to lift India’s rating from ‘BBB-’ to ‘BBB’,…

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‘Tariffing India won’t stop Putin’: Democrats rip into Trump’s tariff move; urge military aid for Ukraine

Democrats rip into Trump’s tariff move (Picture credit: AP) Democrats on the US House Foreign Affairs Committee have sharply criticised the Trump administration’s warning of higher tariffs on India if talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin fail to produce results.Responding on social media platform X to comments by US treasury secretary Scott Bessent, the Committee…

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‘Russia lost an oil client, which is India’: What Donald Trump said before meet with Putin; ‘secondary sanctions would be devastating…’

“It is highly regrettable that the US has chosen to impose additional tariffs on India for actions that many other countries are also undertaking,” India has said. (AI image) US President Donald Trump believes that his 25% additional tariffs on India for its Russian crude trade made Russia lose a major oil client. Ahead of…

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Investors see growth in single-specialty hospitals

NEW DELHI: With traditional multi-specialty hospital chains nearing deal saturation, investors are increasingly shifting their focus on single-specialty hospitals (SSHs), which are fast emerging as the next growth frontier in India’s healthcare landscape. Offering focused care, operational efficiency and faster scalability, SSHs have become particularly attractive to private equity (PE) firms, analysts told TOI. This…

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