It will be a great boost to air connectivity in the Northeastern part of the country as before Pakyong, the nearest airport to the capital city of Gangtok was around 124 km away in Bagdogra.

The new cities are Dehradun, Puducherry, Mysore, Vijayawada, Nashik, Guwahati, Kanpur and Ludhiana, Swiggy said in a statement.

Protests against high petrol and diesel prices paralysed many parts of the country earlier this month.

The Pakyong Airport, the tiny hilly state's first and the country's 100th functional airport, will be inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, a government official said on Wednesday.

The discount can be availed by booking tickets on Vistara's official website. The Fly With The Best offer is applicable on the travel period between September 10 this year to April 10 2019.

The airline said that the first four freighters are scheduled to be inducted by March 2019.

The website says that a non-refundable processing fee will be applicable on payments made by credit, debit or charge card.

The tickets can be booked till August 9 for a travel period of five months- August 4 to December 31, 2018. There are extra benefits for customers who will book their tickets through Paytm, company website and mobile app.

With the battle for this red-hot pie intensifying, the biggies in the business are upping the ante on recruitment - aggressively vying for the best and brightest at India's top campuses.

Most leading hospitals are struggling to make profits. At the same time, new formats, specialties and technology assisted ventures are coming up with a promise of transforming the sector.

IndiGo has announced new non-stop flights between Surat and Delhi, Bengaluru, Mumbai, Jaipur and Hyderabad from August 16.

Walmart, on the other hand, maintains that the deal with Flipkart will not only prove beneficial for small supplier and farmers, but will also generate employment.

Shopkeepers and traders affiliated to a local lobby group held scattered sit-in protests across the country on Monday against Walmart Inc's proposed $16 billion acquisition of e-commerce firm Flipkart.

GoAir and Indigo have kicked off the monsoon season by offering flight tickets starting as low as Rs 1,199 and Rs 1,200 respectively.

Majority of the notes were in denomination of Rs 500 and Rs 2,000.

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Indian institutions like the IITs offer best education in the country, but they still have a long way to go when compared to other top universities in the world. This year too, no Indian university was able to secure a place in the top 100 best universities in the QS World University Ranking.

The offer, launched to celebrate the World Environment Day on June 5,  marks the return of Ola's 'Farak Padta Hai' campaign, which was launched in 2017 too.