Multiple flights have been diverted from the Amritsar airport in the last two days as runway visual range (RVR) equipment, which allows pilots to land flights amid dense fog, has stopped functioning, aviation industry sources said on Thursday. The RVR equipment at the airport is maintained by the Indian Meteorological Department, which has sent its […]
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Flight operations at Amritsar disrupted due to faulty equipment
Flight operations at Amritsar airport were disrupted on Wednesday and Thursday due to near zero visibility and a fault in critical meteorological equipment. Amritsar airport is equipped to handle operations in extremely low visibility conditions. These are known as CAT-IIIB operations and allow an aircraft to land in visibility over 50 metres. However it requires […]
President Kovind presents replica of 1971-era MIG 21 aircraft to Bangladesh
President Ram Nath Kovind has presented a replica of the 1971-era MIG 21 aircraft to his counterpart Abdul Hamid here to commemorate the joint sacrifices made by the armed forces of India and Bangladesh during the 1971 liberation war. President Kovind is here on a three-day state visit, his first trip abroad since the outbreak […]
HAL signs Rs 2,400 cr contract with BEL for supply of avionics for LCA
Hindustan Aeronautics Limited on Thursday awarded a Rs 2,400 crore contract to Bharat Electronics Limited for the manufacture and supply of 20 types of airborne electronic systems for the LCA Tejas Mk1A fighter aircraft programme. The order spanning five years from 2023 to 2028 involves supply of critical avionic Line Replaceable Units (LRUs) related to […]
Gadkari to chair conference on investment opportunities in Mumbai today
Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways, Nitin Gadkari will chair National Conference on ‘Investment Opportunities in Highways, Transport and Logistics’ in Mumbai on Friday. As per an official release by the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways, “The conference aims to emphasize on the importance of collaboration between various Central and State Government Ministries, […]
Private sector invests Rs 15,164 cr in roads till November this fiscal
Private sector investment in road construction till November this financial year stood at Rs 15,164.25 crore, Parliament was informed on Thursday. In a written reply to the Lok Sabha, Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari said private sector investment in road construction in 2020-21 and 2019-20 was Rs 12,475.53 crore and Rs 21,925.98 crore, […]
PM Modi to lay foundation stone of Ganga Expressway on December 18
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will lay foundation stone of Ganga Expressway in Shahjahanpur, Uttar Pradesh on December 18. The Expressway from Meerut to Prayagraj will pass through 12 UP districts and connect western and eastern regions of the state. In a statement Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) said that Prime Minister Modi will lay the foundation […]
Delhi airport: Phase 1 of smart project to revamp parking stands finishes
The smart apron project at Delhi airport’s Terminal-1 (T1), which proposes to revamp the existing 55 parking stands to accommodate a maximum of 82 aircraft, has completed phase one with 19 new stands made operational after statutory approval from the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), said the airport operator Delhi International Airport Ltd (DIAL) […]
Lucknow Metro bags Energy Conservation Award 2021
Lucknow Metro has been awarded the Energy Conservation Award 2021 by Union Minister for Power and New and Renewable Energy Raj Kumar Singh at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi. Lucknow Metro bagged the award for the effective and efficient usage of available resources in the ‘Metro Railways – Energy Conservation Category’. “ Lucknow Metro has been […]
Yogi govt to UPPCL: Provide 24×7 power to all till March
Lucknow: The Yogi Adityanath government has directed the UP Power Corporation Ltd (UPPCL) to provide 24X7 electricity to consumers of all categories in cities and villages from mid-December till March, apparently with an eye on the assembly elections that are only less than two months away, people in the know of things revealed. According to […]
Punjab polls: Kejriwal promises international airport in Jalandhar; Amarinder attacks Channi again
CHANDIGARH: The entire Jalandhar city was painted in the color of patriotism on Wednesday with a tricolour in hands and reverberating slogans of “Bharat Mata Ki Jai”. This was the view of the Tiranga Yatra (Tricolor procession) led by AAP’s National Convener and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal who is on a two-day visit to […]
COVID-19: Explain rationale of prohibiting unvaccinated people to travel in Mumbai local trains, HC tells Maharashtra
MUMBAI: The Bombay High Court on Wednesday directed the Maharashtra government to file an affidavit explaining the rationale behind prohibiting the people, who are yet to receive any anti-coronavirus vaccine dose, from using the suburban rail services in the city. A bench of Chief Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice M S Karnik directed the Maharashtra […]