The country’s financial capital came to a standstill on Monday morning, temporarily halting the city’s suburban rail services, disrupting work from home, and even trapping people inside elevators, as a technical failure hit power supplies. Electricity supply to hospitals was also interrupted, and telecom services in the city took a hit. Executives at the stock […]
Day: October 13, 2020
Large parts of Mumbai face major power outage; local trains held up
Large parts of the financial capital reported major power outage on Monday morning due to a technical failure. In a tweet, Brihanmumbai Electricity Supply and Transport (BEST) said, The electric supply is interrupted due to TATAs incoming electric supply failure. Suburban local train services, operating only for essential workers at present, were affected from 1005 […]
British Airways CEO Alex Cruz replaced as company fights for survival
British Airways CEO Alex Cruz has been replaced after 4 1/2 years on the job as the COVID-19 pandemic pummels airlines around the world. International Consolidated Airlines Group, BA’s parent company, said Monday that Cruz had been replaced by Sean Doyle, previously the boss of Aer Lingus, another carrier in the group. BA has been […]
Singapore Air’s A380 restaurant tickets sold within 30 minutes of opening
Singapore Airlines Ltd. said all seats on its Airbus SE A380 jetliner pop-up restaurants were reserved within 30 minutes of bookings opening Monday. With flights largely grounded by the coronavirus pandemic, Singapore Airlines is trying novel ways to raise money, including using two of the superjumbos parked at Changi Airport as temporary eateries. A meal […]
Number of passengers flying in single day increases to over 178,000
The total number of passengers flying in a single day increased to 1,78,431 on October 11, Union Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri said on Monday. The Minister, in a tweet, said that airports across the country received a footfall of 3.56 lakh. “Domestic Operations on 11th October 2020. 1,78,431 passengers on 1,515 flights. Total […]
Arunachal: Itanagar airport likely to be constructed by Nov 2022, says AAI
The greenfield airport at Hollongi, which is 15 km from Itanagar in Arunachal Pradesh, is likely to be constructed by November 2022, said the Airports Authority of India (AAI) on Monday. In a statement, the AAI stated that the estimated cost of the entire airport project is estimated to be around Rs 650 crore and […]
Nitin Gadkari to lay foundation stones for Rs 11,571 cr projects in Kerala
Union Minister Nitin Gadkari will lay the foundation stone of seven highway projects worth Rs 11,571 crore in Kerala on Tuesday, the government said. In addition, the Road Transport, Highways and MSMEs minister will inaugurate a 27 km highway project – Kazhakoottam to Mukkola, built at a cost of Rs 1,121 crore. Gadkari will inaugurate […]
New bridges vital to connectivity in far-flung areas: J&K Lt guv
Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and the Border Roads Organisation on Monday for the construction of 10 vital bridges in Jammu and Kashmir. Singh inaugurated on Monday the bridges built in strategically key areas of Ladakh, Arunachal Pradesh, Sikkim, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Punjab and Jammu and Kashmir. […]
Ladakh: 8 strategic bridges inaugurated, 45 more to come in next 2 years
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Monday virtually inaugurated 44 bridges in the country including eight strategic bridges in Ladakh only. In addition to this, the construction of 45 more bridges in Ladakh will be completed by Border Roads Organisation (BRO) in the next two years. The 44 bridges constructed by BRO and were inaugurated today […]