Mangaluru: The Mangaluru International Airport has been adjudged as the best airport in the under-five million passenger category at ‘Wings India 2024,’ Asia’s largest civil aviation exhibition. Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia presented the award at a gala function in Hyderabad on January 18, a release from MIA said here on Friday. The Ministry of […]
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Delhi airport: Flight operations to remain suspended for over 2 hours till January 26
New Delhi: There will be no flight arrivals or departures at the Delhi airport from 10.20 am to 12.45 pm every day till January 26 in connection with the Republic Day preparations and celebrations, according to an official. The NOTAM (Notice to Airmen) issued by the Airports Authority of India (AAI) has been revised to […]
Akasa Air announces commercial flight operations from upcoming Noida airport
Noida: Akasa Air on Friday became the second airline to announce commercial flight operations from the upcoming Noida International Airport in Uttar Pradesh. IndiGo was the first airline to announce a tie-up with the greenfield airport, located near the national capital, for commercial services, according to a statement. A partnership agreement was signed between Akasa […]
US FAA to investigate emergency landing of Atlas Air Boeing cargo plane
Washington: The US Federal Aviation Administration said on Friday it will investigate an incident where an Atlas Air Boeing 747-8 cargo plane made an emergency landing at Miami International Airport after facing an engine malfunction shortly after departure. Earlier, unverified videos on social media platform X showed flames shooting out of the left wing of […]
Atlas Air Boeing cargo plane makes emergency landing at Miami
An Atlas Air Boeing cargo plane was forced to make an emergency landing at Miami International Airport after experiencing an engine malfunction shortly after departure. “The crew followed all standard procedures and safely returned to MIA,” Atlas Air said in a statement, adding that it would conduct an inspection to determine the cause of the […]
PM Modi to inaugurate largest Boeing facility outside of US in Bengaluru today | All you need to know
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will on Friday inaugurate aircraft maker Boeing’s largest facility outside the United Sates — the Boeing India Engineering and Techonology Center — in Bengaluru. The Karnataka Development Index’s official X handle has reported that the project — which spans across 43 acres — has been built with an investment of Rs […]
Dense fog over north India disrupts travel, 22 trains reaching Delhi delayed by up to six hours
New Delhi: The national capital on Friday recorded a minimum temperature of 7.1 degrees Celsius, a notch below the season average, the weather department said. Dense fog conditions prevailed in parts of the city with the Palam Observatory near the Indira Gandhi International Airport recording a visibility level of 50 metres at 5:30 am. According […]
Four crushed to death by express train in Jharkhand
Seraikela: Four people were crushed to death by an express train outside Gamariah station in Jharkhand’s Seraikela-Kharswan district on Thursday evening, a police officer said. The victims were all residents of a slum near the place of occurrence, he said. They were all crossing the railway tracks when the Puri-bound Utkal Express ploughed through them […]
Central Railway surpasses scrap sale target of Rs 300 crore
Mumbai: The Mumbai-headquartered Central Railway has achieved the milestone of being the first zonal railway to surpass the Railway Board’s target of sale of scrap for the Financial Year 2023-24, with two-and-a-half-months remaining in the fiscal year. The Central Railway has earned Rs 300.43 crore, surpassing its scrap sale target of Rs 300 crore for […]
Agra division appoints ‘medically unfit’ person as train controller, official seeks transfer
New Delhi: Nearly two months after being appointed as train controller in Agra division, a railway official has urged his seniors to shift him to some other ‘low-stress’ job as he is ‘medically unfit’ to work in the control department. “His application is under consideration,” Agra Railway Division PRO Prashasti Srivastava told PTI. The train […]
CBI arrests railway official from Bihar’s Hazipur in Rs 2-lakh bribery case
New Delhi: The CBI has arrested a Deputy Chief Materials Manager of the railways and two others from Hazipur in Bihar in connection with a Rs 2 lakh bribery case, officials said Thursday. Sunil Kumar Gandhi, a 2012-batch IRSS officer of East Central Railway, Hazipur, peon Raman Chaurasia and a private person, Amod Kumar Rai, […]
ONGC arm gets about Rs 35k cr loan from DBS Bank, Bank of Baroda
Bengaluru: ONGC Videsh, the overseas investment unit of the country’s top explorer, Oil and Natural Gas Corp, has received a five-year over Rs 34 thousand crore loan from DBS Bank and Bank of Baroda , a company spokesperson said on Thursday. The loan will strengthen ONGC Videsh’s available cash as it contends with shrinking free […]