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The flight was travelling from Andhra Pradesh's Visakhapatnam to Delhi. (File Photo) ShowQuick Read Summary is AI-generated, newsroom-reviewed * IndiGo flight 6E 579 made an emergency landing at Delhi Airport on Saturday morning * The flight was traveling from Visakhapatnam to Delhi * All 161 passengers aboard the Boeing 737 are safe with no reported damage Did our AI summary help? Let us know. Switch To Beeps Mode New Delhi: An IndiGo flight carrying 161 passengers made an emergency l ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: Union Civil Aviation Minister Ram Mohan Naidu on Monday said the country will have 3,000 aircraft in its possession by 2036 and they require a workforce comprising 10,000-12,000 pilots. Speaking at Rail Bhavan after an MoU was inked between the Directorate General of Civil Aviation and the Gati Shakti Vishwavidyalaya (GSV) in Gujarat run by the Ministry of Railways, Naidu said the demand from the Indian aviation industry is surprisingly huge. "A total of 1,700 aircraft are on the ho ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], March 30 (ANI): Union Minister for Railways and Electronics and IT Ashwini Vaishnaw on Monday said the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between Gati Shakti Vishwavidyalaya and the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) will significantly strengthen talent development in India's fast-growing aviation sector. Speaking at an event held in the presence of Union Civil Aviation Minister Kinjarapu Ram Mohan Naidu, Vaishnaw described the agreement as a major step toward buildi ...Read More >
To start international services, Naidu said the discussions are on with airlines for this purpose. The minister was replying to a question asked by BJP MP Chunnilal Garasiya who wanted to know when international services would start from Udaipur. Naidu noted that the Indian aviation sector has witnessed strong growth during the last 11 years of the Modi-government. He said the number of airports and aircraft have increased sharply leading to growth in the number of passengers as well. Naidu ...Read More >
Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], March 30 (ANI): A delegation of Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) MLAs and MLCs on Monday met the Governor of Telangana, Shiv Pratap Shukla, and submitted a formal complaint seeking an inquiry into the alleged illegal mining and land-grabbing activities of Minister Ponguleti Srinivas Reddy. The BRS delegation held a detailed meeting with the Governor at Raj Bhavan for nearly an hour, during which they presented documentary evidence related to large-scale irregularities ...Read More >
Patna (Bihar) [India], March 30 (ANI): Students of Patna University on Monday protested against Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar as he arrived to inaugurate the new buildings of the administrative and academic sections. The students have alleged that none of them were called to witness the ceremony. Speaking to ANI, one of the protesting students said that neither the university administration, nor the Vice-Chancellor (VC), nor a single student was invited for the inauguration ceremony of the ...Read More >
Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh) [India], March 30 (ANI): Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Mohan Yadav transferred incentive assistance of over Rs 169.57 crore to over 257 MSME units at a program themed 'Empowered MSMEs - Developed Madhya Pradesh' in the state capital here on Monday. CM Yadav also released the first instalment of grant assistance of over Rs 28 lakh for startups, handed over industrial land allocation letters to three entrepreneurs from Betul and Agar-Malwa, and distributed benefits under t ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], March 30 (ANI): President Droupadi Murmu will visit Bihar and Karnataka from March 31 to April 1, according to a press release issued by Rashtrapati Bhavan. On March 31, the President will grace the convocation ceremony of Nalanda University at Rajgir, Bihar. Also Read | Middle East Conflict: India Has 60-Day Aviation Turbine Fuel Supply, No Disruption Expected Despite West Asia Crisis, Says Civil Aviation Minister Kinjarapu Rammohan Naidu. On the next day on April 1, she w ...Read More >
New Delhi (India), March 30 (ANI): The Union Ministry of Education has constituted a high-level committee to review the functioning, administration and leadership of the National Institute of Technology (NIT) Kurukshetra, even as it has withdrawn the administrative and financial powers of its Director, Professor BV Ramana Reddy, sources told ANI on Monday. Also Read | Middle East Conflict: India Has 60-Day Aviation Turbine Fuel Supply, No Disruption Expected Despite West Asia Crisis, Says Civil ...Read More >
Petrol and diesel stocks continued to be adequate at retail pumps across the country, the petroleum ministry said on Saturday, even as a panel of Union ministers overseeing supplies -- gas to fertilisers -- assessed measures to boost availability amid the West Asian war, defence minister Rajnath Singh said in a tweet. Distribution of LPG cylinders, used by 333 million households for daily cooking, has remained "normal" with outlets delivering about 5.4 million refills on Friday, the petroleum m ...Read More >
Bengaluru, Mar 11 (PTI) Karnataka Infrastructure Development Minister M B Patil on Wednesday expressed displeasure over the Centre declaring Madurai airport as an international airport while not extending a similar status to Hubballi and Belagavi airports in Karnataka, calling the move "discriminatory and unacceptable". The minister said the central government may have taken this decision keeping the upcoming Tamil Nadu elections in mind. However, its indifferent attitude towards Karnataka's d ...Read More >
New Delhi, Mar 2 (PTI) Amazon India on Monday announced 'Zero Referral fee' on more than 12.5 crore products, a move, the ecommerce giant said, aims to accelerate growth for lakhs of sellers across the country. Building on last year's fee revision, the company has expanded zero referral fees coverage more than 10-times from 1.2 crore products in 2025 to over 12.5 crore products priced under Rs 1,000 across 1,800-plus categories, the company said in a release. In addition, Amazon has reduced Ea ...Read More >
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], March 2 (ANI): Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Monday urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to take swift measures to safeguard Kannadigas and other Indian nationals affected by escalating tensions in the Middle East region. In a post shared on X, Siddaramaiah said, "I have written to the Prime Minister seeking urgent action to safeguard Kannadigas and other Indians affected by the escalating Middle East tensions. I have urged strengthened diplomatic outreac ...Read More >
IndiGo has overtaken Air India and Air India Express in international travel. This shift occurred in the July-September 2025 quarter. Air India reduced flights after a recent crash. IndiGo carried more passengers during this period. The airline also maintained its international services during recent disruptions. Future changes are expected as Air India upgrades its fleet. IndiGo has, for the first time, carried more international passengers than the combined Air India and Air India Express net ...Read More >
New Delhi, Dec 17 (PTI) A parliamentary panel examining the recent air traffic disruptions tried to fix responsibility for Indigo's mass cancellation of flights as senior aviation officials and IndiGo COO Isidro Porqueras appeared before it on Wednesday, but found the replies of the airline and DGCA "evasive and unconvincing", according to sources. The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Transport, Tourism and Culture, chaired by JD(U) leader Sanjay Jha, did not come to any conclusion and decid ...Read More >
A bench of Chief Justice Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya and Justice Tushar Rao Gedela said it has already taken cognisance of the issue in another public interest litigation and granted liberty to the petitioner to seek intervention in the pending petition. "We don't see any reason as to why the concerns raised here cannot be taken up in the earlier petition. The jurisprudence developed by the Supreme Court and high courts around PILs permits the court to expand the scope of a petition in public inte ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], December 17 (ANI): The Delhi High Court on Wednesday disposed of a fresh public interest litigation (PIL) filed against IndiGo Airlines over mass flight cancellations and passenger hardship, holding that the issues raised are already under consideration in an earlier pending writ petition before the Court. Dictating the order, the Court observed that the issues highlighted in the PIL primarily relate to remedial measures required to address the situation that arose due to the ...Read More >
IT and Human Resources Development (HRD) Minister Nara Lokesh will launch the GMR MANSAS Educity Project coming up at Bhogapuram on Tuesday (December 16, 2025). This initiatve is part of the State government's plan to establish the country's first Aviation, Aerospace, Defence (AAD) educational city. According to an official release, the aviation, aerospace and defence sectors in India are developing at a rapid pace. Passenger footfall is projected to reach 700 million across the 200 airports in ...Read More >
IndiGo cancelled flights December 17: IndiGo flight cancellations continued on Wednesday at the Chennai Airport due to dense fog conditions and bad weather. A total of 11 flights, including arrival and departure, were cancelled at the Chennai Airport today. IndiGo has also issued an advisory for passengers that flight operations will be affected today. Due to the adverse weather conditions, reduced visibility and slower flight movements expected today as misty winter skies blanket North and Eas ...Read More >
Visakhapatnam (Andhra Pradesh) [India], December 16 (ANI): Union Civil Aviation Minister Ram Mohan Naidu on Tuesday expressed his enthusiasm for the establishment of an Aviation Edu City in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh. The Minister was speaking at the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for the project. Speaking at the event, Naidu said, "I am happy to be participating in the MoU signing of a prestigious Aviation Edu City in Andhra Pradesh... The whole idea behind it is to take the ...Read More >
New Delhi, Dec 16 (PTI) A PIL has been filed in the Delhi High Court seeking to direct the Centre and Indigo airline to pay four times the compensation of the full ticket price to all passengers whose tickets were cancelled during November and December after the new Flight Duty Time Limitation (FDTL) rollout. The public interest litigation, which will come up for hearing on Wednesday before a bench of Chief Justice Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya and Justice Tushar Rao Gedela, also sought an enquiry b ...Read More >
New Delhi, Dec 16 (PTI) India is set for a power-packed presence at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Swiss ski resort town of Davos next month with four union ministers including Ashwini Vaishnaw and Shivraj Singh Chouhan set to join five CMs and over 100 CEOs from the country. K Ram Mohan Naidu, Minister for Civil Aviation, and Pralhad Joshi, Minister for New & Renewable Energy, Consumer Affairs, and Food & Public Distribution, will also be part of the Indian delegation at the five-d ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: Union Minister of Civil Aviation Kinjarapu Rammohan Naidu on Monday told the Rajya Sabha that the government is taking the issue of high airfares seriously and is keen to prevent opportunistic pricing, even as air travel remains a deregulated sector. He said the Directorate General of Civil Aviation's tariff monitoring unit is being strengthened to keep a closer watch on fares. Responding to supplementaries during Question Hour, Naidu said the surge in airfares is largely due to a de ...Read More >
New Delhi: The government is taking the high airfares issue seriously and wants to prevent opportunistic pricing situation and is strengthening the tariff monitoring unit of DGCA, Minister of Civil Aviation Kinjarapu Rammohan Naidu informed the Rajya Sabha on Monday. Responding to supplementaries during Question Hour, the minister said the government is taking the issue seriously, while noting that the surge in airfares is generally because it is a deregulated sector. He said in air travel, many ...Read More >
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], December 15 (ANI): The Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport Mumbai (CSMIA) on Monday issued a travel advisory as dense fog gripped Northern India, urging passengers to check their flight status before leaving for the airport to avoid delays or cancellations.https://x.com/CSMIA_Official/status/2000479865632616468?s=20 "Due to heavy fog across parts of northern India, some flight operations may be impacted. Passengers are advised to check the airport's / ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], December 15 (ANI): The Airports Authority of India (AAI) on Monday issued a travel advisory as dense fog gripped Northern India, urging passengers to check their flight status before leaving for the airport to avoid prolonged waiting periods at the airport in case of flight cancellations or delays. In an X post, AAI stated, "Heavy Fog Alert for Northern India...Dense fog conditions are prevailing across Delhi and several airports in Northern India, leading to reduced visibili ...Read More >
New Delhi: Flight operations across north India were disrupted on Monday morning (December 15), after dense fog and smog reduced visibility, with Delhi's Indira Gandhi International Airport being among the worst affected. Several flights faced delays, cancellations and diversions as airlines adjusted schedules to ensure safety amid deteriorating weather conditions. Flights delayed and cancelled as visibility drops At Delhi airport alone, more than 75 flights were impacted, including around 40 ...Read More >
Hyderabad: The Ministry of Civil Aviation (MoCA) on Monday informed that the Delhi and other airports in north India were experiencing dense fog, severely affecting visibility. Before heading to the airport, please check the latest flight status with the airline concerned. Check flight information on the airport website/app. Asking passengers to allow extra travel time, the Ministry said that safety is it top priority. "Our teams and ATC are working tirelessly to minimize disruptions. Thank yo ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], December 15 (ANI): The Airports Authority of India (AAI) on Monday issued a travel advisory as dense fog gripped Northern India, urging passengers to check their flight status before leaving for the airport to avoid prolonged waiting periods at the airport in case of flight cancellations or delays. In an X post, AAI stated, "Heavy Fog Alert for Northern India...Dense fog conditions are prevailing across Delhi and several airports in Northern India, leading to reduced visibili ...Read More >
IndiGo has said operations will return to full normalcy only by 10 February, and has sought temporary relief on the new rules that call for more rest hours and restricted night-duty. The airline has also said it will reduce its flight operations to minimise disruptions from 8 December. The government has said it is closely monitoring the situation with the federal aviation minister expressing "clear displeasure" with how the airline had handled the situation. In a separate statement, India's ...Read More >
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