Bengaluru: With Aero India approaching fast, adrenaline levels are rising in the city. A Dakota aircraft, rechristened Parashurama, after the Hindu saint, flew into the city last weekend and has been kept at Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd to remind the Aviation City of its glorious past.
Day: February 13, 2019
UDAN a game changer for aviation sector, says official
New Delhi, Feb 12 () The regional air connectivity scheme has been a game changer for the aviation sector and 1 crore people will be travelling under the scheme after one year, a senior civil aviation ministry official said Tuesday. The scheme — Ude Desh ka Aam Nagrik (UDAN) — seeks to connect unserved and […]
IndiGo Bangalore-Bangkok flight diverted to Yangon after engine snag, lands safely
NEW DELHI: An IndiGo flight winging its way from Bangalore to Bangkok on Tuesday with 135 people on board developed a snag in one of its engines. Since twin-engine aircraft can safely land on one engine, the flight 6E 075 did so at the nearest airport, that happened to be Yangon. The aircraft, an Airbus […]
Khajaguda Model road delayed due to land issues
Hyderabad: Work related to the Khajaguda Model Road is going on at a snail’s pace with no sign of footpaths or streetlights coming up.
Stranded passengers protest outside Jammu airport
Hundreds of stranded passengers from Kashmir Tuesday staged a massive protest outside the Jammu airport and demanded their immediate airlifting to Srinagar, even as college and university students in the winter capital deferred their agitation after the police assured action against those who raised “anti-India slogans” during a scuffle yesterday. A witness said the police […]
Modi acted as Anil Ambani’s middleman in Rafale deal, committed ‘treason’: Rahul
Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of “treason” and violating the Official Secrets Act by acting as Anil Ambani’s “middleman” in the Rafale jet contract, citing an email to claim the businessman was aware of the deal days before India and France signed it. BJP, however, rejected the charge, saying […]
At high-level meeting in Delhi, Governor reviews J&K road, water projects
A high-level meeting was Tuesday held here under the chairmanship of Jammu and Kashmir governor Satya Pal Malik to review progress on several important road and water projects in the state. Nitin Gadkari, union minister for road transport and highways and Jitendera Singh, minister of state in the Prime Minister’s office, participated in the meeting, […]
Over 1,400 Kashmir-bound trucks cross Jawahar Tunnel as one-way traffic continues on Srinagar-Jammu highway
The Jammu-Srinagar highway that was restored for one-way traffic has already allowed over 1,400 vehicles to cross the Jawahar Tunnel and reach the Kashmir Valley, a traffic official said on Wednesday. The strategic highway was restored for one-way traffic on Tuesday after seven days following avalanches and landslides. Since Tuesday afternoon some 700 trucks carrying […]
Vikram Solar bags 1 MW Floating Solar Project
Vikram Solar, one of India’s leading module manufacturer and a prominent rooftop solar & EPC solutions provider has bagged the project order for a 1 MW Floating solar plant for Hindustan Zinc Limited. The plant will be located at Ghosunda Dam, Near Chittorgarh, Rajasthan. This would be Vikram Solar’s 2nd floating solar project after the […]
Coal India Q3 net profit up 50%
Coal India has posted a 50 per cent rise in net profit in the October-December quarter of 2018-19. Better realisations from the sale of coal both through auction and fuel supply agreements have propelled the earnings of the public sector miner. The consolidated net profit of the public sector miner for the quarter was Rs […]
Jharkhand power utility on the mat at tariff hearing
Industry leaders came out strongly against a proposal to hike power tariffs on Tuesday, their argument predictably based on irregular supply and erratic billing by Jharkhand Bijli Vitran Nigam (JBVNL) that has approached regulators for an increase in charges from the next fiscal across all categories of consumption except agriculture. “Dar nirdharan se pahle hamara […]
Ravi Shankar Prasad calls Rahul a lobbyist
The BJP on Tuesday accused Rahul Gandhi of being a “lobbyist of competitive plane supplier companies”. “It is our very serious charge with full sense of responsibility that Rahul Gandhi is working as a lobbyist of competitive plane supplier companies,” law minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said. The retort was in response to Rahul Gandhi’s fresh […]