Air India management has deferred by a month a Boeing 787 training program for a section of its pilots after the carrier’s plans prompted protests from one of the airline’s two pilots unions.

NEW DELHI — India has about $10 billion worth of offset contracts in the pipeline, says a junior defense minister. “Since the introduction of the offset clause in our Defense Procurement Procedures [in 2005], offset contracts worth nearly 150 billion rupees ($3 billion) have been concluded so far and, I am told, that the total value of the offset contracts which are in the pipeline is estimated to be over 410 billion rupees,” M.M. Pallam Raju says.

Fresh labor unrest is brewing at cash-strapped national carrier Air India as more than 100 pilots threatened to resign over alleged discrimination by the company. About 10 international flights were canceled on Oct. 31 as 23 Air India pilots reported sick, an airline official said.