India’s domestic traffic declined around 45 per cent to about 71 lakh passengers in December last year over December 2019 even as passenger traffic was up 12 per cent sequentially over November 2020, ratings agency Icra said in a release. The capacity deployment in December 2020 at around 67 per cent (vis-a-vis December 2019) is […]
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J’suguda-Mumbai-B’luru flights begin
The much-awaited direct flights from the VSS Airport here to Mumbai and Bengaluru were inaugurated on Tuesday. Health Minister Naba Kisore Das, Bargarh MP Sures Pujari, Brajrajnagar MLA Kishore Mohanty, Sundargarh MP Jual Oram, Kalahandi MP Basant Panda, Sambalpur MP Nitish Gangdeb and Airport Director Kisore Senapati were present.Minister Das informed that the State Government […]
AirAsia to operate BBSR-Pune flights
The AirAsia airline is all set to operate direct flights between Bhubaneswar and Pune as the Odisha Government has agreed to provide financial support for the operation. “To further enhance air connectivity into Odisha, the State Government has agreed to provide financial support for AirAsia’s direct flight operation between Bhubaneswar and Pune for three months,” […]
Flights leave Pune carrying lakhs of Covishield vaccine doses
A decisive phase in India’s fight against coronavirus began on Tuesday as the first consignment of Covishield vaccines left for Delhi, four days ahead of the nationwide inoculation drive launch. Four airlines are operating nine flights to transport 56.5 lakh doses of the vaccine from Pune to 13 cities across the country on Tuesday, Civil […]
AI flight with all-woman crew from San Francisco lands in Bengaluru
Creating history, Air India’s Longest flight from San Francisco to Bengaluru with an all- woman crew landed in the city on Monday. As the flight (AI-176) landed at the Kempegowda International Airport in Bengaluru and the crew members walked to the airport lounge, there was a huge crowd of people to receive them with elation […]
Black box of crashed Indonesian plane recovered
Indonesian search teams have retrieved one of the two “black boxes” from the ill-fated Boeing 737 plane that crashed into the Java Sea on Saturday, killing all 62 people on board. The flight data recorder was brought ashore, but the teams are still trying to locate the cockpit voice recorder, the BBC reported on Tuesday […]
Divers sift debris, seabed mud for Indonesia plane devices
Indonesian navy divers were searching through plane debris and seabed mud on Tuesday looking for the black boxes of a Sriwijaya Air jet that nosedived into the Java Sea over the weekend with 62 people aboard. A navy ship earlier picked up intense pings being emitted from the boxes containing the cockpit voice and flight […]
Indonesia intensifies search for crashed plane’s black boxes
The search for the black boxes of a crashed Sriwijaya Air jet intensified on Monday to boost the investigation into what caused the plane carrying 62 people to nosedive at high velocity into the Java Sea. The Boeing 737-500 jet disappeared minutes after taking off from Jakarta, Indonesia’s capital, during heavy rain on Saturday, and […]
N’rangpur bridge collapse: FIR lodged against 3
An FIR was lodged at the Umarkote police station on Monday against three persons in connection with the collapse of an under-construction bridge near Talapadar village in Nabarangpur district that killed a labourer and left three others critically injured. The FIR was filed against contractor Ashish Biswal, Junior Engineer Asit Patra and SDO Niranjan Sahu, […]
N’rangpur under-construction bridge collapses
A portion of an under-construction bridge collapsed, killing a labourer and injuring three others critically in Nabarangpur district on Sunday. While centering work of the bridge over Nagi river was going on near Talapadar, about three km from Umarkote, a portion of the structure collapsed. Four labourers working on the bridge fell down and a […]
Collector treks 6 km to study development works
Dantwada Collector Deepak Soni and officials walked 6 kilometers on Sunday to take stock of the development of roads between Kirandul and Bacheli towns and other basic amenities in the two places in the Chhattisgarh district. Kirandul and Bacheli are small hilly towns separated by 10 km. Both jointly make up the Bailadila hills where […]
Don’t cheat farmers by offering them peanuts for land acquisition for Delhi-Katra expressway: SAD chief
Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) President Sukhbir Singh Badal on Sunday asked the Congress Govt in Punjab not to cheat farmers by initiating land acquisition for the Delhi-Katra expressway project by announcing a ridiculous award of Rs .67 lakh per acre.Expressing shock at this development, the SAD President said “we will not allow farmers land to […]