AIR INDIA TO REINSTATE PILOTS IF THEY END STRIKE

The Indian civil aviation minister Vayalar Ravi has stated that Air India will reinstate pilots sacked after starting the strike. The striking pilots maintain that all they need to come back to work is reinstatement of pilots and a written assurance on their demands being met. However they say this has not yet been received and until it does no decision to end the strike will be made. The Delhi High Court issued contempt notices to nine of the striking Air India pilots for defying its order to call off the agitation which entered the seventh day yesterday. The nine