The Board of Control for Cricket in India secretary Jay Shah confirmed on Monday that the T20 World Cup, which was scheduled to held in India later this year, will be shifted to the United Arab Emirates due to the COVID-19 situation in the country.
The 25 passengers, who had applied for political asylum in France, were reportedly freed on Tuesday and five of them were taken into care of child welfare services being minors.
Jet Airways will be able to take to the skies once again, after aviation regulator DGCA on Friday granted it a revalidated air operator certificate, allowing the airline to resume commercial flight operations.
Dubai's Emirates Airlines has cancelled its 16 special flights to India, which were originally planned to meet the Christmas and New Year holiday rush.
Airberlin passengers will be able to book flights to New Delhi, Mumbai, Cochin, Chennai, Hyderabad and Bengaluru with Etihad Airways, UAE's national carrier, the companies said in a joint statement.
Launching its biggest ever repatriation exercise, India on Thursday airlifted 363 of its citizens, including nine infants, stranded in the United Arab Emirates due to the international travel lockdown over the COVID-19 pandemic.
While BCCI, as of now, will not give up its hosting rights and wait how the COVID-19 situation in India pans out, there is very little chance that countries will want to travel to India which is facing its worst health emergency since independence.
High airfares have forced several expatriate workers, including Indians, wanting to leave the UAE under an amnesty announced by the government, to take the risky sea route by traveling in boats.
The UAE team is a mix of local players as well as players of India, Sri Lanka and Pakistan origin. The skipper feels that having a number of Indians pitted against India isn't a problem at all.
Australia leg-spinner Adam Zampa says he decided to quit the IPL midway as it was the "most vulnerable" bio-bubble he was part of.
Royals and KXIP landed in Dubai via a charter flight, which will be the norm this IPL due to the ongoing health crisis. A little later in the evening, Kolkata Knight Riders arrived in Abu Dhabi, their base for the tournament.
National carrier Indian has been voted the most preferred airline of Indian expatriates living in the UAE, according to an opinion poll.
West Asian carriers are up against Air India and IndiGo in the battle for seats on lucrative international routes.
76 families took a Qatar Airways flight from San Francisco on Sunday evening and reached Bangalore International Airport after a 20-hour flight. These employees were stuck in the US due to various reasons.
It will be interesting to see if Pakistan, after this snub, competes in the tournament, scheduled to be held from September 2-17.
The planes had come on the same runway during take-off from the airport. The DGCA has asked UAE's General Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) to share its investigation report on this incident.
In Dubai, A Ganesh Nadar encountered high speeds on smooth-as-silk-roads, no bureaucracy, gold, Mr Toad's. And snow!
Qatar has released eight jailed former Indian Navy personnel and seven of them returned home early Monday, 46 days after their death sentences handed last October were commuted to jail terms of varying duration.
In June, flydubai doubled its network in India with the start of flights to Delhi, Kochi and Trivandrum.
India on Monday launched 'Operation Kaveri' to evacuate its nationals from violence-hit Sudan.
Adnan Hussain, who hails from Karnataka, Mohammad Farhan, from Maharashtra, and Sheikh Azhar Al Islam, from Jammu and Kashmir, were arrested by NIA after registering a case in New Delhi, official sources said.
Their opponents New Zealand, who effectively knocked India out of the World Cup, have reached Jaipur on a chartered flight from Dubai with little time to reflect on their loss to Australia in the title clash.
A person who returned to Kerala from abroad and was hospitalised after showing signs of monkeypox tested positive for the disease, state Health Minister Veena George said on Thursday.
The 1.4 million non-resident Indian community in the UAE, which includes 200,000 Mangaloreans are expected to benefit from the new service, which was launched on Tuesday. \n
UAE carrier Qatar Airways on Friday launched the first of its daily flights between Doha and Delhi and announced it would introduce 11 more to India in the next few weeks, taking the total number of its services to 30.
Under its evacuation mission 'Operation Kaveri ', India has set up a transit facility at Jeddah and all the Indians have been taken to the Saudi Arabian city after their evacuation from Sudan.
A senior Air India pilot, who was found to be allegedly drunk by Sharjah International Airport security just prior to flying, has been let off with a warning by the United Arab Emirates authorities.
"We can confirm that there are no fatalities among our passengers and crew. All passengers and crew are accounted for and safe," the airlines said in statement.
United Arab Emirates-based low cost airline Air Arabia will operate seven additional flights from Mumbai to Sharjah from September 7-15.
The consortium of UAE-based businessman Murari Lal Jalan and London's Kalrock Capital -- which has won the bid to revive Jet Airways -- on Monday said it expects to start operating the airline by the summer of 2021.
The NIA questioned him for over two days before handing him over to the state police.
With the arrival of the three jets, the size of the Rafale fleet has increased to 14.
The 14th season of the IPL, which was postponed in May this year in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, will resume on September 19 in Dubai with a blockbuster clash between Chennai Super Kings and Mumbai Indians.
Following the arrival of the new batch, the number of Rafale jets with the IAF went up to 24.
This follows the Union Cabinet approving enhanced traffic rights between India and Abu Dhabi.
A third batch of three more Rafale fighter jets on Wednesday landed in India from France after a non-stop flight, in a further boost to the strike capability of the Indian Air Force.
From the Gulf countries to Malaysia and the UK to the US, the multi-agency operation christened 'Vande Bharat Mission' will see the state-owned AI operate 64 flights till May 13 in the first phase to ferry around 15,000 Indian nationals from 12 countries.
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The ministry of civil aviation has disagreed with a proposal of the Prime Minister's Office to explore raising the cap on the number of weekly flights from Qatar in exchange for discounts on additional supplies of liquefied natural gas from there.
So far, almost every positive development in terms of the bilateral ties has been overtaken by innate hostility that is often driven by popular sentiments.
Speaking to ANI, sources within the RCB franchise confirmed that Virat and Siraj will be flying out from Manchester in a charter flight on Saturday night and reach Dubai early Sunday morning.
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