Áfter a days pause, petrol prices rose by 27 paise on Friday to touch Rs 96.93 per litre in Delhi. Diesel climbed 28 paise to touch Rs 87.69 a litre. OMCs today hiked petrol and diesel prices between 23-30 paisa per litre across the four metros. In Mumbai, today’s rate for a litre petrol is […]
Day: June 18, 2021
Strong winds damage aircraft parked at Ahmedabad airport
MUMBAI: Seven airline aircraft parked on ground at Ahmedabad airport sustained various degrees of damage due to thunderstorm activity and strong winds that gusted through the airport on Wednesday evening. Among them were three A320 aircraft belonging to IndiGo, two GoAir A320s and one SpiceJet Boeing 737, said sources. The Directorate General of Civil Aviation […]
How to be a drone pilot in India: Courses, fees, license and all details you need to know
With companies like Swiggy and Dunzo testing drone delivery of food and medicines by partnering with startups like ANRA Technologies and Skye AirMobility respectively, it seems that the tech industry in India is seriously considering drones for business mobility. Recent studies have revealed that a majority of delivery packages in India weigh less than 3KG, […]
Ryanair, UK airports sue govt over Covid travel rules
LONDON: Irish no-frills airline Ryanair and Manchester Airports Group (MAG) are to launch Thursday a legal challenge against the UK government over its Covid traffic-light travel restrictions. The legal action seeks greater transparency in how destinations are classified within the system, according to MAG, which manages Manchester and London Stansted airports. Britain’s Covid risk system […]
UK, US strike deal over Airbus-Boeing dispute
LONDON: Britain on Thursday said, it had agreed on a truce with the United States over a 17-year long tariffs dispute involving European planemaker Airbus and US rival Boeing. It comes in the wake of a similar deal between the European Union and the US announced on Tuesday. The dispute, the longest-running in the history […]
Air travel in May drops to July ’20 levels
NEW DELHI: The peak month of Covid’s devastating second wave — May 2021 — saw the number of domestic flyers falling to levels seen just after scheduled flights were allowed to resume following a two-month suspension last year. According to DGCA data, 21.1 lakh people flew within the country last month. Domestic flights were suspended […]
Fuel prices at fresh record high; Petrol breaches Rs 100/litre mark in Bengaluru
Petrol and diesel price today: After staying unchanged for a day, prices of petrol and diesel were hiked again on Friday, June 18, 2021, touching fresh record highs across the country. In the national capital, the petrol price rose by 27 paise while that of diesel too inched up 28 paise. Following the latest price […]
Parliamentary panel members question top govt officials over rising prices of petroleum products
Several members of a parliamentary panel on Thursday questioned top Petroleum Ministry officials over rising prices of petroleum products and what is being done to check it, sources said. Petroleum Secretary Tarun Kapoor and top officials of state-run firms IOCL, BPCL, HPCL and GAIL appeared before the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Petroleum and Natural Gas […]
ONGC seeks permission from Tamil Nadu govt for exploratory wells in Ariyalur, farmers protest
The Oil and Natural Gas Corporation has now written to the State Environment Impact Assessment Authority (SEIAA) seeking environmental clearance (EC) for drilling exploratory wells in Tamil Nadu’s Ariyalur district, despite opposition by locals and even Chief Minister M K Stalin to an earlier similar proposal. The Union Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas had […]
Pune infra watch: PMC to set up 15 e-vehicles’ charging station for PMPML, allow private vehicles to charge at civic stations
Eyeing for a position in the top 15 cities of the world in a competition for implementing innovative ideas, the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has proposed 15 new charging stations in an initiative to promote electric vehicles (EV) in the city. These are in addition to the existing two stations, used for the public transport […]
For PMPML e-buses and private e-vehicles, 15 new charging stations to be set up in Pune
As part of its initiative to promote the use of electric vehicles, the Pune Municipal Corporation is planning to set up 15 new charging stations in addition to the existing two stations for PMPML buses. “The PMPML, a public transport bus service with a fleet of 2,431 buses, had already inducted 150 e-buses in 2019. […]
C’garh to hold public hearings on mining in coal block with 98% forest cover
The Chhattisgarh government will hold public hearings in July in villages around the Kente Extension coal block as part of the process to grant environmental clearance to mining in the forested and biodiversity-rich Hasdeo Arand region, people aware of the matter said. The Centre granted terms of reference (TOR) to the project in January 2020 […]