US President Donald Trump has announced that Washington would reduce tariffs on Indian goods from 50 per cent to 18 per cent, in exchange for a promise from New Delhi to stop buying Russian oil, among other things.

India negotiated a deal that would have been unthinkable in the depth of the trade war. This was not surrender. This was leverage. India now has among the lowest tariffs in Asia.

Air India’s Senior VP for Flight Operations, Manish Uppal, told Boeing 787 pilots that the airline has initiated a fleet-wide re-inspection of the aircraft’s fuel control switches