The country's largest airline IndiGo, which is focusing on internationalisation, has received approval from the civil aviation ministry to wet lease up to two planes for operating flights to the United States and Canada, according to a senior official.

For the first time, IndiGo started operating wide-body Boeing 777 on Delhi-Istanbul route in February. The plane has been taken on wet lease from Turkish Airlines.

The renewable energy sector received the maximum attention on Day-one of the Andhra Pradesh Global Investors Summit (GIS) on Friday. As many as 92 memorandums of understanding (MoUs) were signed for investments worth about Rs 11.87 trillion and an employment generating potential of 392,000 jobs.

State-run power major NTPC signed three MoUs for investments amounting to Rs 2.35 trillion, while industry majors Adani Group, Reliance Industries, ABC Ltd, Renew Power and JSW Group announced big-ticket investments in the state. On Saturday, another Rs 1.15 trillion worth of MoUs are set to be signed, taking the total to Rs 13 trillion.

Shares of Adani group companies rallied up to 10 per cent on the BSE in Friday’s intra-day trade after the promoters sold shares worth Rs 15,446 crore in four of its listed entities to GQG Partners, a US-based global equity-investment boutique firm.

The promoters plan to use the proceeds to retire debt and for other purposes. They sold shares in Adani Enterprises (AEL) worth Rs 5,460 crore, and those worth Rs 5,282 crore in Adani Ports & Special Economic Zone (APSEZ).

The AAP will be conducting 2,500 nukkad sabhas across Delhi to reach out to people and inform them about BJP's authoritarianism, following the arrest of its senior leader and former minister Manish Sisodia by the CBI in the excise policy case.

On Thursday, an organisational meeting was chaired by Delhi state convenor Gopal Rai and the state unit decided to organise mohalla sabhas and nukkad sabhas to reach out to the residents and inform them "about the misuse of central agencies by the Modi government", the AAP said in a statement.

Anger in Greece over poor railway safety grew on Thursday as the death toll from a train crash on Tuesday rose to 57, CNN reported. Demonstrators took to the streets after the head-on collision between a passenger train carrying over 350 people and a freight train on Tuesday evening in Tempi.

People gathered outside the central Athens headquarters of Greek rail company Hellenic Train again on Thursday evening in a protest organized by student and worker unions, as per the CNN report.

Liquor businessman Amandeep Dhal, the Director of Brindco Sales Pvt. Ltd, who was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in connection with the Delhi's excise policy scam case, was sent to five-day custodial remand by a Special PMLA court.

ED had sought his five-day custodial remand. The Court after hearing the argument of both the sides, decided to grant the probe agency five-day custody.

Delhi BJP working president Virender Sachdeva and leader of opposition Ramveer Singh Bidhuri said in a joint press conference on Thursday that in the last eight years, the Arvind Kejriwal-led AAP government has stalled the development process in the national capital and turned Delhi into the capital of corruption and scams.

Sachdeva said Kejriwal claims that he has given the country the best health minister (Satyendaar Jain) and education minister (Manish Sisodia), but the truth is that he has given the masterminds of two scams to the country, who are both in jail today.

The BJP created history on Thursday by returning to power in Tripura and the NDPP-BJP alliance swept the polls in Nagalanad. The BJP is also part of the sweepstakes to form government in Meghalaya having decided to extend support to the National People's Party which emerged as the single-largest party with 26 seats.

BJP and NPP were partners in the outgoing government but had contested the polls separately.

Lucknow's Chaudhary Charan Singh International Airport (CCSIA) will soon get a massive upgrade.

The Adani Group plans to invest up to Rs 5,000 crore to upgrade the same.

According to official sources, the Lucknow International Airport Ltd (LIAL) has sought a tariff hike to fund, among other things, a large integrated terminal and associated facilities to increase aircraft movement.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday called upon the G20 countries to build consensus on pressing global challenges and not allow differences on geopolitical tensions to affect overall cooperation, in comments that came amid a bitter rift within the grouping on the Ukraine conflict.

In his video message at the G20 foreign ministers meeting, Modi also referred to Mahatma Gandhi and Buddha and urged the delegates to draw inspiration from India's civilisational ethos to focus not on what divides us, but on what unites us.

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