Karnataka Minister Umesh Katti passes away in hospital
Bengaluru: Karnataka Minister of Food, Civil Supplies & Consumer Affairs and Forest Umesh Katti died after suffering from a massive cardiac arrest on late Tuesday evening here in the city’s private hospital, ,media reports claimed. He was 61.
According to the initial reports, the minister suffered a cardiac arrest around 10 pm on Tuesday evening. He was being treated in the ICU, where he reportedly breathed his last.
Umesh Katti is a six term member of the Karnataka Legislative Assembly and represents Hukkeri assembly constituency.
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IndiGo fiasco is cost of govt's monopoly model: Rahul Gandhi
New Delhi (PTI): Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday alleged that the IndiGo "fiasco" is the cost of this government's "monopoly model" and asserted that India deserves fair competition in every sector, not match-fixing monopolies.
In the wake of IndiGo cancelling over 550 flights on Thursday alone and 400 flights on Friday, disrupting the travel plans of hundreds of passengers, Gandhi said it is ordinary Indians who pay the price in delays, cancellations and helplessness.
"IndiGo fiasco is the cost of this Govt's monopoly model. Once again, it's ordinary Indians who pay the price - in delays, cancellations and helplessness," the Leader of Opposition said in a post on X.
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"India deserves fair competition in every sector, not match-fixing monopolies," Gandhi asserted.
IndiGo on Thursday told aviation watchdog DGCA that operations are expected to be fully stabilised by February 10, 2026, and sought temporary relaxations in flight duty norms on a day when the country's largest airline cancelled more than 550 flights, disrupting the travel plans of hundreds of passengers.
Acknowledging that the flight disruptions happening for the past few days are primarily due to misjudgment and planning gaps in implementing the second phase of the Flight Duty Time Limitations (FDTL) norms, IndiGo also informed the regulator that there will be more cancellations till December 8 and from that day, there will also be a reduction in services.
Civil Aviation Minister K Rammohan Naidu held a high-level review meeting to assess the situation of significant flight disruptions and expressed his displeasure at the way IndiGo handled the new FDTL norms implementation despite having ample time.
