Jet Airways Chief Executive Officer Gary Kenneth Toomey has resigned—effective immediately—on Jan. 16, only seven months after joining India’s leading private carrier. Toomey, who was hired last June on a three-year contract, could not be immediately reached for comment. Ravishankar Gopalakrishnan, the chief financial officer of the airline, will be the “acting chief executive officer” until the board appoints a new chief, the airline says in a statement.
NEW DELHI — India hopes to launch Chandrayaan-2, its second lunar exploration mission, with an indigenous rover and lander, aboard a Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) by 2017. The mission will be a totally Indian program, without any participation from frequent industrial partner Russia. “This time it will be an indigenous launch ... which intends to demonstrate our capability to soft-land on the lunar surface,” says K. Radhakrishnan, chairman of the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO).
