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How AirAsia India innovated with a distance-learning training programme for its cockpit crew

As demand for travel rises, industry must meet it while ensuring passenger safety

Industry grapples with skilling/reskilling employees right from pilots to ground handling staff whose skills may be redundant

JetSetGo in talks with VCs, PEs to raise additional $50 million

Pilot shortage is hurting airline operations in India, with the industry expected to need at least 1,000 to 1,500 pilots every year

Integrated biometric-enabled frameworks for real-time test results, travel details and vaccine status are key to making air travel safe

How will Tata Sons turn around all the airlines under its fold, except maybe the Kochi-based Air India Express?

 While the growth of international flights remains muted, demand for narrow-bodied aircraft witnesses a renewed surge 

Two pilots will swap planes mid-air

India should adopt Cape Town Convention as part of the domestic legal framework.

Airbus and Boeing differ in their approach to automation

IATA shares proposes 65 per cent of aviation-emitted carbon will be abated through sustainable aviation fuel

The scheme has made short commutes via flight accessible to over 92 lakh people

Flying distance may vary based on flight phases, altitudes and regions

Why do Airbus commercial aircraft have sidesticks and Boeing have yokes as control units?

Post pandemic, the airlines must revamp strategies and resort to long-term measures to recover from the crisis 

The plane maker’s current foray attempts to shed the tentativeness that overshadowed its earlier endeavours

Are they finally paying up or paying off?

Zomato’s order scheduling is available at more than 35,000 restaurants across 30 cities

Google is developing AI technology that takes over a web browser to complete tasks such as research and shopping, The Information reported

The app has also added other changes in the interface so users can organise their chats better

Last year, Meta had admitted in a blog to having separate encoding configurations for different videos based on how popular they were

Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet will be available via GitHub Copilot starting today and Google’s Gemini 1.5 Pro will be available in the coming weeks

Google is still thriving while the company navigates through a pivotal shift to artificial intelligence and battles regulators trying to topple its internet empire

Gemini 1.5, their last iteration had been released in February this year

Drops for Big Tech companies including Microsoft and Facebook’s parent company Meta Platforms led Wall Street lower

ChatBIT was fine-tuned and "optimised for dialogue and question-answering tasks in the military field", the paper said

Altman also said that the next update for DALL-E was still in the works with no release date yet

Srinivas went on to work with OpenAI for a year before co-founding Perplexity AI in 2022

How much do I rely on GitHub Codespaces for open source development? Super double-plus much. I can illustrate exactly how much with one short anecdote. Gulp 5 was recently released and I created several PRs across repos in the H5BP organization to update Gulp across the board. I missed one issue with the encoding of […]

National Health Accounts figures show the per capita out-of-pocket expenditure on health in Kerala stands at ₹7,889. However, Kerala also tops the list when it comes to the per capita government spending on health, at ₹4,338

As of now, the State has 22 government medical colleges in 22 districts while 11 others have no government medical colleges; the PPP model however has been criticised by some experts

HHF’s screening of 200 patients in Mucherla and Meerkhanpet found that 21% had senile cataracts, 18% had immature cataracts, and 15% had refractive errors

YouTuber Irfan recently posted a video on social media that showed him cutting the umbilical cord of his newborn, in the operation theatre of a private hospital in Chennai; consent of the medical personnel involved to being videoed was another aspect doctors say needs discussion

THOTA may be amended to facilitate retrieval of cornea from all Indians who die in hospitals, without family consent. 

India needs to continue efforts to maintain its polio-free status, and AFP surveillance has to remain a cornerstone of its strategy

In a letter to States and UTs, the Director General of Health Services Atul Goel has said to discourage stubble and waste burning, and spread awareness among people about reducing firecrackers during festivities

Expanding healthcare infrastructure plans also include integrated public health units in 600 districts and 30 branches of the National Centre for Disease Control, Niti Aayog member Dr. Paul has said

The Centre will implement the G20 Pandemic Fund, which is aimed at enhancing the country’s “animal health security”, in partnership with the Asian Development Bank (ADB), the World Bank and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).