Cyclone Dana: Lakhs evacuated; flights, trains suspended

As Cyclone Dana barrels toward the coasts of Odisha, threatening to impact nearly half of the state's population, the government is racing against time to execute a massive evacuation plan aimed at......

DGCA to probe ATC glitches in Presidential flight

Civil aviation authorities would inquire into the incident in which an Air Traffic Control monitor suffered technical glitches soon after President Pratibha Patil's aircraft took off from the......

Drunk woman threatens to blow up Mumbai-bound AirAsia flight

An AirAsia India flight was forced to return to the airport in Kolkata after a woman passenger claimed that she had explosives and threatened to blow up the aircraft mid-air but it turned out......

UFO seen above Imphal airport, air defence activated; flight ops hit

Normal flight services at Manipur's Imphal International Airport were affected on Sunday afternoon over sighting of an unidentified flying object (UFO), officials said. Image only for......

Why are our airports in such a mess?

Domestic airports across the country are bursting at the seams. And new ones are stuck. Surajeet Das Gupta takes stock. A milestone is seen outside the Jaisalmer Airport in Rajasthan in August......