India's ambitious human spaceflight programs are moving in a skewed phase for want of requisite technologies and capabilities. The country has shelved plans to undertake a manned mission to the Moon in the near future, and the launch program of the first manned mission in space is delayed. As a result, any chance of India becoming the fourth nation with an indigenous human spaceflight is also slipping into the future.
Several international carriers are contemplating a stake in Kingfisher Airlines’ holding company UB Holdings, says the airlinhe's chairman, just days after the Indian government relaxed foreign ownership .
