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The Dollar Business Bureau Qatar Airways and Vistara on Tuesday entered into an interline partnership, under which customers of the two carriers will have seamless travel to and from India to over 150 destinations. The partnership is effective from Monday, Qatar Airways said in a media release. The Gulf carrier currently operates to 13 cities in India from Doha while Vistara, the Tata-SIA run domestic carrier operates to 18 domestic destinations. An interline arrangement refers to a pact to issue and accept tickets for flights that are operated by the partner airline. When selling an interline ticket, the operating airline's own flight numbers are used. According to the Interline partnership arrangement, passengers holding a Qatar airways’ can travel seamlessly to and from a wide range ...

The Dollar Business Bureau The livestock farmers in India have prodded the Government to initiate measures in order to resume the exports of eggs to Qatar, which is now buying the commodity from EU and US at higher prices after the Gulf nation was isolated by its neighbours.  Before 2008, India was meeting 80% of Qatar’s requirements for table eggs. However, after the outbreak of bird flu (avian influenza) in 2006 and 2008 in the northern region of the country, Qatar banned poultry products from India including eggs, according to the Livestock & Agri Farmers Trade Association. Despite norms set by the World Organisation of Animal Health (OIE) to remove the ban after a surveillance of 90 days and to allow imports from ...

The Dollar Business Bureau Following the outbreak of bird flu in Tripura on the 4th of January, Kuwait had imposed a ban on poultry product imports from India. In Oct the Gulf nations’ PAAFR department (Public Authority of Agriculture Affairs and Fish Resources) had agreed to lift the ban on importing of live poultry, one-year old chicks of the egg laying hens and flesh hens from India. This decision by the Middle East could have a serious impact on India’s poultry exports as India mainly exports poultry to Middle East countries. Commerce and Industry Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in a written reply said that it is important to share this information so that the same can be conveyed to the importing countries to ...

Source: PTI Iran has offered to supply natural gas at $2.95 for a urea plant that India will set up at Chabahar port on the Persian Gulf, but New Delhi wants rates to be lowered. With the US and other western powers easing sanctions against Iran, India has been in talks with Tehran to set up a gas-based urea manufacturing plant at the Chabahar port, besides developing a gas discovery ONGC had made. The total investment in the projects will be around Rs.1,00,000 crore, Road Transport, Highways and Shipping Minister Nitin Gadkari said on Wednesday. Asked about the development of the port, he said: “Various ministries will give their report by September 28, based on which a final decision will be ...

Source: PTI Anil Ambani-led Reliance Group has expressed a keen interest in playing a larger role in the growing economic ties between India and Qatar by expanding business cooperation with the Gulf country. Ambani called on Qatar's Prime Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani among other senior Qatari ministers during a visit to the oil-rich country on Sunday. Ambani highlighted the operations of Reliance Group in diverse sectors and discussed possible areas of interest for expanding business cooperation with Qatar to the mutual benefit of both sides. Accompanied by a team of senior executives, he discussed bilateral trade ties with Qatari dignitaries, underlining the group's keen interest in playing a larger role in the growing economic partnership between ...