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A controversy has erupted over allotment of government flats to Rohingya refugees in Delhi.
Critics said it was against the Centre’s earlier claims that the Rohingya Muslims were not refugees but illegal immigrants and that the Kashmiri Pandits and Hindus from Pakistan living as refugees in the national capital should have been given priority in allotment of flats. Read full story
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Akasa Air, the startup budget airline launched on August 7 with late Rakesh Jhunjhunwala as its biggest investor, will add one aircraft every two weeks.
Akasa Air has said it remains ‘well-capitalised’ and will induct the ordered 72 aircraft over the next five years. It will also place a ‘significantly larger’ aircraft order in the next 1.5 years. The airline inducted its third Boeing 737 MAX on Tuesday. Read full story