Two passengers on board a Dubai-Mumbai IndiGo flight were arrested for allegedly hurling abuses at crew and co-passengers in an inebriated condition, a police official said on Thursday. They were placed under arrest after the flight landed in Mumbai on Wednesday and were granted bail by a court here, the official said. “The two accused […]
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Air India to revise privilege leaves policy for staff from April 1
Air India will revise its policy with respect to privilege leaves for both permanent and full-term contract staff from the next financial year to align the policy with “prevailing market conditions”, according to an internal communication. From April 1 onwards, Privilege Leaves (PLs) accumulation limit for all employees will be 60 days in a particular […]
Indian airports set to hit saturation point in seven years: CAPA India
Capacity at most Indian airports is set to saturate between the financial years ending 2028 and 2033. This is particularly true of the privately run airports at Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Mumbai and Delhi. Among the state-run facilities – Pune is already operating above its design capacity, while Chennai and Kolkata are expected to breach saturation by […]
Indian airports can soon handle 500 million passengers a year: Rajiv Bansal
Airports at the country’s major metros will be able to handle about 500 million passengers a year, in the coming years, the union civil aviation secretary, Rajiv Bansal projected on Tuesday. Speaking at the two-day CAPA India Aviation Summit 2023, the bureaucrat, underscoring the growth trajectory, insisted, ”There is no missing piece in the puzzle.” […]
Centre proposes to sell up to 3.5% stake in HAL
India is planning to sell up to 3.5 per cent stake in aerospace and defence company Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd this week in a deal that could fetch the government Rs 2,867 crore ($347.16 million), an exchange filing showed on Wednesday. So far, the government has mopped up Rs 31,110 crore by selling its shares in […]
BMRCL picks contractor for building airport metro depot
Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Limited (BMRCL) has selected the contractor for constructing a depot for the crucial airport line. J Kumar Infraprojects Ltd, a Mumbai-based civil engineering firm, said in a filing to the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) on March 20 that its joint venture with AICPL had received a letter of acceptance from the […]
NF Railways to install AI-enabled system to check elephant deaths due to train hits
Buoyed by the success of a pilot project, the Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) has decided to install an Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based Intrusion Detection System (IDS) in all elephant corridors in Assam and North Bengal in order to prevent the death of wild elephants due to train hits. The IDS will help detect wild elephants approaching […]
Oil lower as banking turmoil holds down sentiment
Oil drifted lower on Tuesday as more than a week of banking turmoil kept weighing on market confidence. Brent crude futures for May settlement dropped 71 cents, or 1 per cent, trading at $73.08 per barrel at 0514 GMT. US West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures were down 74 cents, or 1.1 per cent, to […]
Russia, China ink Power of Siberia 2 gas pipeline deal
Russia and China have reached an agreement on the Power of Siberia 2 gas pipeline, which will connect Siberia to northwest China, President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday after talks with China’s leader Xi Jinping. “All agreements have been reached,” Putin said after talks with Xi, adding that economic cooperation between Moscow-Bejing was a “priority” for […]
US announces sanctions on Iran drone procurement network
The United States said Tuesday it is imposing a new round of sanctions on Iranian firms and people accused of procuring equipment used for Iranian drones. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control coordinated with the FBI to designate four firms and three people in Iran and Turkey for allegedly buying equipment, including European-made engines, to […]
India rejects UAE request for more air traffic rights
India is not looking at increasing air traffic rights for the United Arab Emirates, Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia told Reuters in an interview on Tuesday. The UAE has urged India to increase the maximum number of seats between the two countries by 50,000 a week but Scindia said, “at this point we’re not looking […]
Air India expansion stirs tension over airline flying rights
Tensions over plans to transform Air India into a global airline with hundreds of new jets rippled across the aviation sector on Tuesday as foreign carriers clamoured for more access to the world’s fastest-growing economy. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government faces growing demands to ease a near-freeze on capacity that can be deployed on many […]