Rush Hour: HC asks why Centre was helpless on IndiGo crisis, India among most unequal nations & more

Hearing a matter about the recent disruption to IndiGo's operations, the Delhi High Court asked the Union government whether it was helpless in taking action against airlines. The bench also asked what provisions were available to the government in case the airline failed to comply with norms.

This came after the court was told that a committee had been formed to review the crisis. The bench said that the government had “allowed the situation to precipitate” before taking action.

Meanwhile, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation asked IndiGo Chief Executive Officer Pieter Elbers to appear before it on Thursday. The authority has sought details about restoring operations, plans for recruiting new pilots and crew, and processing cancellations and refunds. Read on.

Indian railways is running trains for passengers hit by IndiGo crisis. But they are going empty

Saurabh Luthra and Gaurav Luthra, the owners of the Goa club where 25 persons died in a fire, told a Delhi court that they did not flee to Thailand, as claimed by the state police. They said they had travelled to the country for business but were wary of returning to India, fearing arrest.

They had sought four weeks of transit anticipatory bail, which the court refused. It posted the matter for further hearing on Thursday.

The fire had erupted around midnight on December 7. Twenty staff and five tourists were killed. The brothers were in the national capital when the blaze erupted. Read on.

The top 1% of India's population holds 40% of the wealth, making the country one of the most unequal in the world, according to the 2026 World Inequality Report. The richest 10% hold about 65% of the total wealth.

In terms of income inequality, the top 10% of earners receive about 58% of national income, while the bottom 50% get only 15%. According to the report, the income gap between the top 10% and the bottom 50% remained stable between 2014 and 2024.

Globally, wealth has reached historic highs, but remains “very unevenly distributed”. The top 0.001%, which is fewer than 60,000 multimillionaires, owns three times more wealth than the entire bottom 50% of humans put together, said the report. Read on.

How India's capital-intensive growth is exacerbating income inequality

Congress leader Shashi Tharoor said that he will not accept an award named after Hindutva ideologue VD Savarkar. The award is being conferred by a non-governmental organisation called the Highrange Rural Development Society.

Tharoor said it was “irresponsible on the part of the organisers” to announce his name as an award winner without him having agreed to receiving it.

On the other hand, Aji Krishnan, the founder and secretary of the non-governmental organisation, said the decision of conferring Tharoor with the award had been communicated to the Congress leader a month ago. He claimed that Tharoor “had agreed to accept the award and attend the event”. Read on.

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