219 Air India employees are bidding for a 51% stake in the company. This is the first time in corporate history that employees of a public-sector undertaking have decided to be part of the bid process.
In December last year, Prof Lalji Singh, known as the Father of DNA Fingerprinting in India, died after he suffered a major heart attack while at the Lal Bahadur Shastri International Airport, Babatpur in Varanasi.